Official TMNT 2 Discussion

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by thundermaster612

SCREW TURTLES!
lets all star talking about sex and marriage!
Can a mod change the name to 'the birds and the bees thread?'

Seriously guys how do these things happen

Screw Turtles? Sex and marriage?

Dear boy, are you a <gasp> SCALEY!?

[thundermaster612]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Screw Turtles? Sex and marriage?

Dear boy, are you a <gasp> SCALEY!?

No, weren't you the one who brought the subject of sex and marriage up?
(EDIT: Also wtf is the koolaidcult? I literally just read the tags)

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by thundermaster612

No, weren't you the one who brought the subject of sex and marriage up?
(EDIT: Also wtf is the koolaidcult? I literally just read the tags)

I'm not the one making Freudian slips all over the place. I'm blushing for you.

[thundermaster612]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

I'm not the one making Freudian slips all over the place. I'm blushing for you.

You must be thinking of Cubed
(no offense cubed)

[Etsyturtle2]

Originally Posted by thundermaster612

No, weren't you the one who brought the subject of sex and marriage up?
(EDIT: Also wtf is the koolaidcult? I literally just read the tags)

Never heard the phrase kool-aid drinkers?

[thundermaster612]

Originally Posted by Etsyturtle2

Never heard the phrase kool-aid drinkers?

Now I get it

[Etsyturtle2]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Screw Turtles? Sex and marriage?

Dear boy, are you a <gasp> SCALEY!?

What? like tcest and stuff?

[thundermaster612]

Originally Posted by Etsyturtle2

What? like tcest and stuff?

It means horny bastard

[TigerClaw]

Saw this posted at comingsoon.net about TMNT 2 when they were at CinemaCon.
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/new...krang#/slide/1

CS talks Krang, Easter Eggs and more with TMNT stars Megan Fox and Will Arnett as well as director Dave Green and producer Brad Fuller

As part of their CinemaCon presentation, Paramount Pictures brought to Las Vegas Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows stars Megan Fox and Will Arnett, as well as producer Brad Fuller and director Dave Green. ComingSoon.net was able to chat with the whole group backstage and found out where we’ll be catching up with April O’Neill and Vernon Fenwick when Out of the Shadows hits the big screen this summer.

“I’m still chasing a story,” says Fox, “but I’m trying to do it independently of Channel 6.”

“I’ve been forced to take the credit for a lot of the good deeds that the turtles did in the first one,” Arnett explains. “I’m kind of living like a big shot in New York.”

“Yeah,” says Fox with a mock glare to her costar. “Someone had to take the credit and April didn’t want it because she’s a good person.”

Although Out of the Shadows continues the story from director Jonathan Liebesman’s 2014 film, the sequel promises to bring in a lot of fan-favorite characters from throughout the TMNT mythos such as Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang and Baxter Stockman.

“When you have a movie that works, you still hear from the fans,” Fuller explains. “Even though the first movie works, they have thoughts. We, as a company, try to pay attention to those thoughts. That’s why you’re going to see a lot of new characters in this movie. They wanted Bebop and Rocksteady and Krang. Everyone that’s in there. So we wanted to figure out a story that could support all those new characters. That was the biggest challenge: How do you tell a turtle-centric story and still give time to all those other characters?”

“I think seeing Krang is going to be trippy,” says Fox. “He’s a very weird looking character. They’re going to make him real. He’s not a cartoon.”

Although Krang’s cinematic origins have yet to be revealed, we asked if a potential Dimension X reveal could one day pave the way to the new film series existing in the TMNT multiverse. After all, previous animated iterations of the turtles have crossed over with one another on more than once occasion.

“Krang opens up some big options,” says Fuller. “But that’s the challenge of the movies… Everyone comes to it with a different translation of their turtle knowledge. Someone might not know what Dimension X is… You used to make a movie and just think, ‘This is a great movie. I love the characters. I love the setting. Hopefully, it turns out.’ Now, you kind of have to think, “If we open this door, we kind of have to walk through it.’ That may be four movies down the line, but you’ve got to think about it. We definitely have to think more long term than we did before.”

That being said, it might be quite awhile before we see the same kind of TMNT multiverse crossovers on the big screen that we’re used to seeing in other forms of media. In the comics, for instance, a partnership between IDW and DC Comics has led to the currently-running Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles six issue miniseries. If the movies do one day go that route, however, Arnett, who voices the Dark Knight in The LEGO Movie and the upcoming The LEGO Batman Movie, is ready.

“That would be so rad,” he laughs.

“You could play Verne and Batman!” says Fox.

As for Out of the Shadows, Green says that the June 3 release will deliver a turtle-powered adventure worthy of the franchise.

“There’s a warmth to the movie and there’s a warmth to the way they interact with each other as brothers,” says Green of the sequel’s overall tone. “It is a movie that is about brotherhood and teamwork and the connections that family make together. How that makes you a stronger fighting team.”

Devoted franchise fans should also be on the lookout, though, as the Green also promises that eagle-eyed fans will be rewarded.

“We found a cool collection of Easter eggs that are throughout the movie,” Green says, “from all different areas of turtle lore.”

The Out of the Shadows cast also includes William Fichtner, Laura Linney, Tyler Perry, Sheamus, Gary Anthony Williams, Brittany Ishibashi, Stephen Amell and Brian Tee. Alan Ritchson, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, and Noel Fisher are also reprising their roles as Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo, and Michelangelo.

I highlighted the part where they talk about Krang, Dimension X and the Multiverse.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by thundermaster612

SCREW TURTLES!
lets all star talking about sex and marriage!
Can a mod change the name to 'the birds and the bees thread?'

Seriously guys how do these things happen

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Screw Turtles? Sex and marriage?

Dear boy, are you a <gasp> SCALEY!?

Laughed pretty good. Okay, ya did sort of walk right into that one.

Originally Posted by thundermaster612

Seriously guys how do these things happen

With our pervy species, when does it not? lol

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Somewhere in the multiverse, in the many many parallel realities, SOMEWHERE there's a universe where the Ninja Turtles are a respectable and faithfully-adapted movie franchise.

Just not this one. At least we've got Netflix.

Starting to think that in order for that to happen, in that universe they're actually real and it's respectable because it's a frigging "based on a true story" docudrama... (Granted the story might be a bit different in that world.)

[Vicky82]

New tv spot

[TheJ-manTurtleMan]

Is it unusual that the film hasn't been rated yet?

[Vicky82]

Originally Posted by TheJ-manTurtleMan

Is it unusual that the film hasn't been rated yet?

No it isn't, they rate it about 2 weeks before the movie is out.

I know in the UK they do

[thundermaster612]

Originally Posted by Vicky82

New tv spot

Interesting...
I might recreate that with stop motion considering I opened and fixed the truck today

[DioLeo451]

Originally Posted by Vicky82

New tv spot

Way better look at Donnie then the Kca clip

[TigerClaw]

Here's a new set report posted by Den of Geek
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/teen...aking-a-sequel

We headed to the set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows to find out more about the approach to the upcoming sequel...

In 1991, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Secret Of The Ooze was released in cinemas. It came out just a year after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, an attempt to capitalize quickly on the surprising success of that film. Where the first live action Turtle adventure had taken $135m at the US box office, Secret Of The Ooze would return nearer to $80m, roughly adhering to the old 65% rule of sequel returns.

Secret Of The Ooze was quite different to its predecessor. It was sillier, adopting a lighter tone more in line with the popular cartoon series of the time, where the first showed a greater influence of the comic book source material.

The team behind the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows, this year’s Turtles sequel, find themselves producing a follow on with similar changes, even calling back to the same cartoon iteration, albeit for different reasons.

Secret Of The Ooze was softened following complaints against the level of violence in its predecessor. Where Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) had featured a more serious tone and impressive martial arts sequences, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Secret Of The Ooze was daft and the fight scenes toothless. The 1990 film saw Raphael struggling to recover from a serious beating from the villainous Foot Clan. In the 1991 sequel the Turtles weren’t shown using their weapons. A conscious effort was made to make the film more “kid friendly”, as director Michael Pressman explains on the film's DVD commentary track.

That’s not to say that the silly follow on is without its charm. It features some fun jokes, a few notable new characters and the widely remembered Vanilla Ice dance sequence. The Turtles even had a favourite pizza place which, unlike in other movies where corporate tie-ins with Pizza Hut and Dominos have seen the boys favouring a brand, was Roy’s Pizza (actually Ray’s Pizza, but changed to Roy’s for legal reasons) in New York City.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows, then, is going in the same direction but for a different set of reasons. Den of Geek visited the set in June 2015. Producer Andrew Form explains that their experiences making the first film made them realise they had to change things up a bit. “It’s very easy to take it seriously and go right down that road. You can’t forget we’ve got four huge, talking, walking Turtles. You can’t forget that.”

Perhaps that’s a difficulty inherent in the motion capture technology, used extensively by both of the recent Turtles films. After all, the previous series of live action movies featured men performing in giant Turtles suits (provided by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop), a good reminder of what the audience would end up seeing. Not having that visual prompt may take some getting used to. Pablo Helman, the head of VFX on both movies, explains “The first movie was a movie in which we kind of discovered the characters as we went along and in this movie we already know who the characters are.”

Perhaps it’s producer Michael Bay, not present for our set visit, who best explains the difficulties that troubled the production of the first film. The Transformers director told the Hollywood Reporter: “After I saw it… we're having a steak dinner, we have a martini each — and I'm texting Drew. Then he goes to the bathroom. I go to the bathroom. He's at the urinal and [I say], "We are in so much f—ing trouble!" I write Paramount, "Guys, we have a serious problem. We need funny writers right now. Because the pipeline has to keep going.” We really had to get that tone right. It was dicey.”

While Secret Of The Ooze was an attempt to fix problems that existed outside of the film, Out Of The Shadows will be an attempt to apply the fixes learned on the first movie to produce a better, not softer, film.

“The tone of the movie was the biggest challenge, which has truly helped us through movie two, because we learned from movie one” producer Form acknowledges. A group of journalists, seventeen in total including Den of Geek, gather around him as he lays out what they’ve been doing differently this time around. Form pops up throughout our visit, but there’s always someone in need of his attention. An apparent leader on set, Form shows no sign of feeling the pressure of such a large production. He carries a laid back manner and appears to be enjoying the experience.

“It’s really fun” Form tells us. Later in the day, Form’s wife and infant child visit the set. He shows them around the impressive Turtle lair set as three bells sounded from across the building, over by the van set where filming was taking place. Three bells indicate that a take is imminent. Everyone fell deadly silent, with the exception of Form Junior, who proceeds to coo with little respect for film set etiquette. The bell rings again to denote that filming has stopped. “Let’s see if you’ve ruined a take” Form Senior says with a laugh.

There’s no sign on set of the panic that seemed to follow the first movie. They’re a way into production and Form seems pleased. “The shoot is broken up into a number of units. The entire movie is being filmed in maybe close to 90 days, without anything that we do with ILM up in San Francisco. Those are additional days that we do that are going to need motion capture, volume work with the CG characters. But it’s 90 days of principal photography on set with these actors. We’ve got about 20 days of that left.”

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows comes with more than just a new tone and newfound confidence; it comes with a new director, too. Out goes Jonathan Liebesman; in comes David Green, who directed 2014 family adventure film Earth To Echo. It was that film, Form tells us, that drew him to the Turtles team’s attention. “Earth To Echo was a great, small movie where he understood his characters really well, and when he came in and pitched us his take on our movie, it was a natural for us. Now that I’ve shot three quarters of the movie with him, I couldn’t be happier.”

“This film has been incredibly collaborative” actor Stephen Amell tells us. “Working with Dave, Josh Appelbaum (screenwriter) has been on set a bunch, Andre Nemec (screenwriter) is on set. Andrew Form is coming in with a lot of suggestions in terms of what they refer to as franchise management. I’m actually shooting next week on second unit, with an entirely different director, of a big action piece that’s going to happen while main unit is filming this. So, I’m getting a lot of input from a lot of different people. It’s really collaborative.”

Of director Green, he says “He’s just very quiet. Very precise.”

Amell himself is a new addition to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line-up. He’s playing Casey Jones, the hockey-mask wearing vigilante who’s known for his love of misusing spots equipment and for being ever so slightly unhinged.

“My character in this movie is Casey Jones at, I think, an earlier stage than we’ve seen him in previous live action iterations of the Turtles.” Says Amell, suggesting that perhaps this isn’t going to be the same version of Casey Jones that Turtles fans are familiar with. At least, not at first. “He has those same impulses lurking somewhere.”

“I mean, that’s the thing about Casey Jones, is he’s a little crazy” Amell tells us.

Other new characters, particularly the villains, reveal the influence of the 1987 cartoon series. Fan favourite villains Bebop and Rocksteady will be appearing in the film as the mutant sidekicks of heavily bladed baddie Shredder (this time played by Brian Tee, taking over the role from Tohoru Masamune). With Shredder, Karai, Bebop, Rocksteady, Baxter Stockman and Kraang, screenwriter Josh Appelbaum jokes with us that the film has its own Sinister Six. Of those villains, three were created specifically for that old cartoon series.

Bebop and Rocksteady in particular are exciting additions. They were planned for the 1991 sequel but Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creators Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman objected to the idea. Some 25 years later fans will finally get a chance to see the two baddies on the big screen. Best of all, we can expect them to be the same hulking dimwits we’ve long known them as.

“We have not changed that at all.” Form reassures us. “They are not the smartest guys in the world. I would say in a fight they’re brawlers: they will throw big haymaker punches, nothing calculated, and if they hit you it’s gonna hurt, but easy to duck. They’re the comic relief in the movie in a big way and they play very well off Shredder. We call them The Knuckleheads. They’re very funny and a little slow.”

When we sat down with the actors playing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Den of Geek couldn’t help but think of the recent comic book storyline that saw Bebop and Rocksteady bash Donatello into a near death state.

“That’s not happening in this one. The guys are gonna be around for a while.” Jeremy Howard, who plays Donatello, reassures us.

“He hasn’t gotten those pages yet.” Leonardo actor Pete Ploszec jokingly interjects.

This is how the actors playing the Turtles interact. The four sit together, joking, teasing one another and each taking a turn to answer every question, attempting to build on the previous answer or joke. Howard is the quietest of the three, but gives the most thoughtful answers. Ploszec is warm and friendly throughout, and gives enthused, excited answers when he’s not playing and joking with his co-stars.

“It’ll be the last day on set” adds Noel Fisher, who is the mischievous Michelangelo through and through.

“We’re pushing for it.” Ploszec smiles.

[newhire13]

It doesn't matter where they post, the point is that it's not necessary to be a jackass towards someone for liking the 2014 movie.

[Shark_Blade]

More Karai is always good.

[TrickOrTreater]

Originally Posted by newhire13

It doesn't matter where they post, the point is that it's not necessary to be a jackass towards someone for liking the 2014 movie.

Like better things.

[NinjaPug]

What a weird trailer. Why are they acting like people need to be introduced to the Turtles at this point?