'Tales Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Trailer Sees The Brothers Fend For Themselves Against A Familiar Enemy
The trailer for the 12-episode Paramount+ event series premiered at IGN Live
There’s still mayhem, but not related to any leaks. Paramount+ and Nickelodeon premiered the official trailer for Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Friday afternoon at IGN Live. Tales is the next television iteration of the long-running Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, and the first to be part of the story of the contemporaneous feature films, this starring the versions that debuted in last summer’s hit Mutant Mayhem. Ultimately, it will have taken 53 weeks to continue their story, as the first 12-episode event will premiere Friday, August 9 on Paramount+ in the United States and Canada. The United Kingdom and Australia get it next day, Saturday, August 10, with further international rollout to be announced. The trailer came as promised following a poster release Thursday.
As previously reported, the Mutant Mayhem voices of all four Turtles are reprising their roles, Micah Abbey as Donatello, Shamon Brown Jr. as Michelangelo, Nicolas Cantu as Leonardo, and Brady Noon as Raphael, and even Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil. While we still don’t have an answer on who’s voicing Splinter, two other casting announcements were made. Alanna Ubach will be voicing the season’s main villain, Bishop. Bishop is a comics-originating character who to this point has been male, whose bigotry-fueled plan to exterminate mutants includes isolating the brothers and forcing them to fight on their own. The character’s best-known iteration is probably the alien-abducted Civil War soldier turned leader of the Earth Protection Force in modern day in the 4Kids-produced series that debuted in 2003. He was pretty antagonistic there, while the first Nick series version is much friendlier, but as an Utrom with the same Kraang-like demeanor as (most of) the rest of them. His role was much smaller there, debuting significantly later too.
In addition, Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson is voicing Rod, described as a lazy rich kid who is at least a big enough fan of the Turtles, if not so into mutantkind as a whole but still enough to be one of them. From the brief description it comes off as a higher class Timothy from the first Nickelodeon series, who originally took on the moniker The Pulverizer. He was such a superfan of the brothers he wanted to become a mutant himself. The problem is when he comes along on a mission that happens to house a supply of mutagen, he either hadn’t made physical contact with animals or non-mutant animals, meaning the mutagen couldn’t activate properly and instead dissolved most of his body, turning him into Mutagen Man. It can also be said there’s some flavor of a Princess Morbucks from The PowerPuff Girls.
Check out the poster above and the trailer below while waiting for Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’s August premiere on Paramount+. With Mutant Mayhem’s sequel set for an October 9, 2026 release the two-season series that was ordered to be the bridge will likely plant its second season somewhere in 2025.
