Todd Langen is an American screenwriter and former engineer, best known for his work on “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” He was 23 years old and working on a space shuttle for Hughes Aircraft Company in Los Angeles when he decided what he really wanted to do with his life was to be a screenwriter. His first sale was an episode of “The Pursuit of Happiness”, a television comedy series.
Langen soon became a regular writer of “The Wonder Years.” His biggest success would come when he was hired to work on the film adaptation of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” in 1990. Langen would return to write the sequel “The Secret of The Ooze” in 1991.
