More Storyboard Leaks

[neatoman]

https://web.archive.org/web/20230320...moe/r48lyj.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20230320...moe/j413o3.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20230320...moe/940s1n.pdf

Edit: The Wayback Machine does not work anymore but I found someone else had them uploaded elsewhere, though this one will require a download:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/63q34...eleek.zip/file

Alright, so this one requires the Wayback Machine but I managed to back the files myself, so I might be able to fix this if it fails. This gives us greater insight into the plot of the movie:

• TCRI are creating mutants to further science and have a cure in case they go rogue. It's not clear if they are aliens but the name Cynthia "Utrom" does imply they are indeed Utroms.
• All the Mutants started out as animals here, there is no indication that any of them used to be human. Yes, this includes Bebop and Rocksteady.
• The main villain of the movie appears to be Super-Fly, who tricks the Turtles into helping him and he harbours some resentment towards Cynthia Utrom for killing his "father" (I guess that could be Baxter, could just as easily be a joke about dispoable flies are as lab animals).
• His plan is to unleash a giant mutant creature made of fused together animals and him and his mutants offer the turtles to help turn the world into a mutant haven, which they refuse because filling the world with mutants is wrong.
• Leatherhead, Mondo Gecko, the Punk Frog, Ray Fillet, Wingnut and virtually all the other mutants are villains. Ironically, the only true mutant ally is Scumbug.
• All the Mutants except for the Turtles, Splinter and Scumbug are turned back into animals. Yes, that includes Bebop and Rocksteady, so they probably won't be characters in any sequels.
• The climax reveals the Turtles are seen as dangerous creatures but they choose to stop the giant chimera creature regardless.

Not a complete reveal of the plot, obviously, but that's still quite a lot.

Does not seem to be a great plot but it does amuse me that somehow, the writers at least showed way more sense about how the turtles should react to the idea of the world being turned into a mutated hellscape than Sophie Campbell did...

[Toxin45]

feels like a strech need to wait for the full movie.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Toxin45

feels like a strech need to wait for the full movie.

Based on this, the other leaked storyboard, the leaked concept art and the official trailer, we can pretty much already piece together what the plot movie is going to be. It's likely going to be something like this:

• A basic retelling of Splinter's Mirage/4Kids/1990 origin, with him discovering the turtles in a sewer drain when they're still all regular animals.
• The Turtles are discovered by April when she is investigating something weird about TCRI.
• The Turtles agree in exchange for being accepted into society.
• The Turtles are contacted by Super-Fly who will help them for his own needs.
• Cynthia Utrom sends out Bebop and Rocksteady, probably with some other mutants, to stop them.
• They eventually end up at TCRI where Super-Fly enacts his plan.
• All the Mutants are cured (with the possible exception of Scumbug) and all is well, except the Turtles need to stick to the shadows.
• Probably some last minute teaser about the Shredder or Cynthia Utrom revealing herself to be an alien.

[AquaParade]

That could be fun if the execution is on point. Nothing egregious, considering the target audience.

[oldmanwinters]

This movie seems to be really leaky…
Better call the Mario Bros plumbing sevice!

[Chaotix12345]

A female Scumbug who Splinter apparently has a thing for was NOT someone I had on my bingo card for this movie, let alone as part of the MAIN CAST! Also, I see Scale Tail! As for the previously revealed muties, LH's characterization looks exactly as I expected, Wingnut is suitably nutty, Bop and Rock seem even dumber than usual, and I find it hilarious that the entirety of Ray Fillet's dialogue throughout his VERY FIRST ANIMATED APPEARANCE...seems to be repeating his name ad nauseum like a Pokémon. This movie's definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but I think I'll have a lot of fun with it.

[CyberCubed]

This movie sounds like the worst possible fanfiction imaginable.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Chaotix12345

A female Scumbug who Splinter apparently has a thing for was NOT someone I had on my bingo card for this movie, let alone as part of the MAIN CAST! Also, I see Scale Tail! As for the previously revealed muties, LH's characterization looks exactly as I expected, Wingnut is suitably nutty, Bop and Rock seem even dumber than usual, and I find it hilarious that the entirety of Ray Fillet's dialogue throughout his VERY FIRST ANIMATED APPEARANCE...seems to be repeating his name ad nauseum like a Pokémon. This movie's definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but I think I'll have a lot of fun with it.

And he ends up being a villain, which is what kept him from appearing in the Fred Wolf cartoon. But Rogen cares not about creator’s intent, I suppose…

[TheLabRat]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Does not seem to be a great plot but it does amuse me that somehow, the writers at least showed way more sense about how the turtles should react to the idea of the world being turned into a mutated hellscape than Sophie Campbell did...

This also make IDW Mikey an jerk without empathy. Remember when they heard New York City was going to be a mutant city in the future. Mikey's reaction was "That sounds cool!". He also think Old Hob was a good man. Although he committed terrorism, but who care? he has ice cream!

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by TheLabRat

This also make IDW Mikey an jerk without empathy. Remember when they heard New York City was going to be a mutant city in the future. Mikey's reaction was "That sounds cool!". He also think Old Hob was a good man. Although he committed terrorism, but who care? he has ice cream!

Mikey is being retard even in IDW? That's funny how even in FW Michaelangelo was more sane and had more common sense (not to mention being funny), than in majority of more "grown up" stuff.

In general, this story sounds like an episode of FW cartoon. Which is bad.

[ZariusTwo]

Hmm, wonder what Splinter's beef with April is in the movie? Is he distrustful of humans?

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Hmm, wonder what Splinter's beef with April is in the movie? Is he distrustful of humans?

He is a racist rat!

[AquaParade]

What if they do a crazy twist and make Splinter an antagonist.

They can “Professor X”, or “Mr Glass” Splinter, then the turtles move in with April.

Not likely, but it’d be interesting.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by neatoman

https://web.archive.org/web/20230320...moe/r48lyj.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20230320...moe/j413o3.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20230320...moe/940s1n.pdf

Alright, so this one requires the Wayback Machine but I managed to back the files myself, so I might be able to fix this if it fails. This gives us greater insight into the plot of the movie:

• TCRI are creating mutants to further science and have a cure in case they go rogue. It's not clear if they are aliens but the name Cynthia "Utrom" does imply they are indeed Utroms.
• All the Mutants started out as animals here, there is no indication that any of them used to be human. Yes, this includes Bebop and Rocksteady.
• The main villain of the movie appears to be Super-Fly, who tricks the Turtles into helping him and he harbours some resentment towards Cynthia Utrom for killing his "father" (I guess that could be Baxter, could just as easily be a joke about dispoable flies are as lab animals).
• His plan is to unleash a giant mutant creature made of fused together animals and him and his mutants offer the turtles to help turn the world into a mutant haven, which they refuse because filling the world with mutants is wrong.
• Leatherhead, Mondo Gecko, the Punk Frog, Ray Fillet, Wingnut and virtually all the other mutants are villains. Ironically, the only true mutant ally is Scumbug.
• All the Mutants except for the Turtles, Splinter and Scumbug are turned back into animals. Yes, that includes Bebop and Rocksteady, so they probably won't be characters in any sequels.
• The climax reveals the Turtles are seen as dangerous creatures but they choose to stop the giant chimera creature regardless.

Not a complete reveal of the plot, obviously, but that's still quite a lot.

That can't possibly be real, can it? Seriously? There's no way.

[IndigoErth]

Wow, good work on the digging! So tempted to look through it... but if I likely go see it together with my nephew and mom, I prob aught to wait so I'm at least not entirely bored already knowing too much. Movie trailers too often eventually give away too much as it is.

After we finally got that teaser trailer and saw a handful of the toys I'd considered asking where is that giant whale creature from that old piece of concept art?? I guess the mashed together mutant is presumably it? (Really, we need a toy... made to scale based on that concept. lol)

Typical allies as villains... Weird. I feel like they just watched 1/4 of the first Mondo appearance (in FW) and missed that he becomes an ally after that. Also very strange if Superfly is not Baxter.

No Rat King as rumored, huh? Unless he's there but become one of the villains Paramount+ does spin-off movies for, IF they are related to this film.

Poor Shredder RPer is gonna be so mad. lol

[Galactus]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Typical allies as villains... Weird. I feel like they just watched 1/4 of the first Mondo appearance (in FW) and missed that he becomes an ally after that. Also very strange if Superfly is not Baxter.

No Rat King as rumored, huh? Unless he's there but become one of the villains Paramount+ does spin-off movies for, IF they are related to this film.

Poor Shredder RPer is gonna be so mad. lol

The Rat King wasn't just rumoured he was explicitly mentioned in the previous storyboards and seemed to indicate he was a big part of the story. I don't doubt these and the previous leaked storyboards are real however it could be they are from an earlier iteration of the movie.

Personally I wouldn't be too certain Shredder wont be the villain in this. Either as a post credit scene to show he's the real mastermind behind it all like they did with Thanos in Avengers or he's the main villain they are just not revealed him yet.

Granted Nickelodeon has never felt it has to especially faithful to any previous iteration but it seems strange how much this is explicitly based on the '87 series and toyline only to deviate from it in pretty important ways. Bebop and Rocksteady start out as animals and have no connection to the Shredder, all the mutants are villains apart from Scumbug (always a very clear villain) the main antagonist is a fly mutant that isn't even Baxter Stockman?

[vexdar]

Originally Posted by Galactus

The Rat King wasn't just rumoured he was explicitly mentioned in the previous storyboards and seemed to indicate he was a big part of the story. I don't doubt these and the previous leaked storyboards are real however it could be they are from an earlier iteration of the movie.

Personally I wouldn't be too certain Shredder wont be the villain in this. Either as a post credit scene to show he's the real mastermind behind it all like they did with Thanos in Avengers or he's the main villain they are just not revealed him yet.

Granted Nickelodeon has never felt it has to especially faithful to any previous iteration but it seems strange how much this is explicitly based on the '87 series and toyline only to deviate from it in pretty important ways. Bebop and Rocksteady start out as animals and have no connection to the Shredder, all the mutants are villains apart from Scumbug (always a very clear villain) the main antagonist is a fly mutant that isn't even Baxter Stockman?

What if Rat King is Splinter? I could see the writers looking through a summary of Rat King and deciding to just fuse him with Splinter (A rat that can control other rats). Maybe April assumes Splinter is doing something bad which leads to a huge misunderstanding between Splinter and April. Perhaps this is why Splinter seems to dislike April in the other leaks.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by vexdar

What if Rat King is Splinter?

Oh no.

Why is it I am not finding that impossible. Gender swapping, alliance swapping... why not swap out the bio resume, too.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

That can't possibly be real, can it? Seriously? There's no way.

May I ask what element in particular you find so unbelievable? That there is a character named "Utrom" without any direct implication that she's an alien? That Bebop and Rocksteady were normal animals instead of human thugs? That characters who are normally depicted as good or unaligned are straight up villains? That basically all of them are going to revert back to being normal animals, including Bebop and Rocksteady, thereby removing them any sequel plans? That the main villain is a fly creature made up for this movie?

I guess it's slightly surprising that the movie will contain that many deviations from the "norm", but none of them seem that unusual to me individually. I already suspected that Bebop and Rocksteady might have started out as a pig and a rhino, and I knew it was likely that most of the mutants were just going to be treated like disposable villains. But even with all of them in one movie, nothing here really seemed like it would be out of the question.

So again, what in particular seems so off to you?

[Andrew NDB]

I mean... the overall plot is a guy named "Supa-Fly" who's a fly who wants to "fuse" mutants together and turn the world into a "mutant haven"? I'm not saying I'd necessarily put it past TPTB to concoct such a story but... wow. Have we really fallen this far? It sounds like the kind of plot a 5 year-old would come up with, and maybe that's even the point.