It’s a summer evening in New York City, and I’m heading downtown to New York Law School, a portion of which has been overtaken by Paramount Pictures for production on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. Shooting on the sequel to the 2014 hit is well underway, with most of the original cast and behind-the-scenes talent returning to bring the Turtles to the forefront, as it were. Out of the shadows, in fact!
“I think in the first movie we weren’t sure what the Turtles were going to be,” says executive producer and screenwriter André Nemec. “We looked at these beautiful maquettes that were built and early renderings and drawings … and it was hard to get a handle on what kind of story you could kind of tell with the Turtles. And part of the process in completing that first movie allowed us to figure out what the second movie itself wanted to be. And it made us realize that we actually could lean into telling a dynamic emotional story with the Turtles.”
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“I think in the first movie we weren’t sure what the Turtles were going to be,” says executive producer and screenwriter André Nemec. “We looked at these beautiful maquettes that were built and early renderings and drawings … and it was hard to get a handle on what kind of story you could kind of tell with the Turtles. And part of the process in completing that first movie allowed us to figure out what the second movie itself wanted to be. And it made us realize that we actually could lean into telling a dynamic emotional story with the Turtles.”
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