TMNT 2 to Shoot in Albany
 

New Movie news on the sequel.

http://lights-camera-jackson.com/exc...in-albany1.php

So I'm guessing one of the turtles or April driving the turtle van and been chased by the foot soldiers and maybe the turtles will jump car to car taking out the foot.

Ooo I wonder what kind of action sequences. The snow chase was amazing. :tlove::D

Wasn't there a scene in the Blue Door with the Foot Militia chasing the TMNT on Motorcycles? I always thought that would be a dead cert for the sequel loath as I am for them to take anything from the Blue Door.

Ah, guess that's the stuff they had intended for next month. Don't wish to speculate too much really, but curious if Albany will be Albany in the film (and therefor a hint of locations for the storyline) or if part of it is simply a setting being used.

Awesome! I wonder if the chase will involve Bebop and Rocksteady on a vehicle.

I hope whoever is at Albany, Can take photos and videos of this shoot, when it happens.

Albany is where they shot the snow chase scene for the first one, it was at a ski resort there. Are we seriously gonna have another snowy mountain car chase? Someone needs to remind this "creative team" that this is A NINJA TURTLE MOVIE, not Die Hard! Christ.

I mean, it's a Michael Bay production. He's perfected the art of doing the exact same thing again and again while getting people to keep throwing money at him. I wouldn't be surprised at all if TMNT2 is effectively the exact same movie as the first one.

Ahh, is that what it was. I'd wondered but had never gotten around to trying to figure it out. I know the winding roads seen for a moment (twice?) is supposedly in Hawks Nest (a small easter egg to me because I'd found out that the river that's seen for a second is the northern end the Delaware - I live near the south end, in the state that shares it's name :D), had thought the building might have been around there, too.

Anyhow, I hope they don't do a repeat. I'm guessing that Sacks is just still located there and is probably behind the creation of Bebop and Rocksteady within that place.

I bet it'll be somewhere along the lines of Secret of the Ooze, Shredder has Sacks create an army of Mutants for him, and Bebop and Rocksteady are the result of that.

Or they will make Baxter Stockman create new Mutants for Shredder with the laboratory Sacks left behind?
(the credits say that he appeared in the first, but I didn´t noticed him. :ohwell:)

Second verse, same as the first!

Oy veh. At least this disaster has three fans going in, or one person with three accounts...who can tell these days!:roll:

Baxter's cameo is so quick it's blink and you'll miss it. He's basically black background scientist with no speaking lines.

I knew it was Half in the Bag before I even clicked the link.

Completely blown away when I saw it. They're nearly the exact same f*cking movie. THREE TIMES.

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So the exact same scene as the snow mountain chase in the first movie, except with MAYBE the Turtle van and MAYBE huge, probably racist versions of Bebop and Rocksteady.

Reminds of this quote from Futurama:

Can't make your movie too smart or feature too many new/interesting ideas. Gotta be the exact same thing over and over again. THAT'S what the people want!

Yeah, but it won't be in the snowy mountains though but probably on a motorway or a main road with other cars getting caught up in the crossfire.

They are probably shooting in Albana, Because, that's where they shot Erick Sack's base.

I'm willing to bet that, Shredder goes to Erick Sack's place, Hands him the Mutagen canister, And its where Bebop and Rocksteady are created.

The snow scene was one of the most well-received bits from the first film, even from the harshest of critics. And the production team is well aware of that, so yeah. Wouldn't surprise me if it was repeated.

Me? I like that scene less and less each time I see it, so I wouldn't be fond of that particular deja vu.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Based on the fact that it's being filmed in Albany (unless there's something I missed)? At least give it some time to breathe.

Assuming Sacks lived, and that they won't pitch his character. It wouldn't be wise to keep him, considering how redundant of a character he is - although I do like William Fichtner a lot.

He most likely ended up in jail by the end of the 1st film, But he probably bailed himself out with all his money, And then he goes back to his home that's near the snowy mountains, then Shredder makes a surprise visit, Hands him the vial of mutagen.

If Platinum Dunes was run by intelligent decision-makers, they would ditch the worst parts of the 2014 movie that would have little impact on the story going forward.

I nominate Vernon and Sachs. Sachs was going to have huge impact, and then the script was violently castrated. Vernon is just annoying as well as useless.

And where most of you would argue against Megan Fox (some of you with legitimate grievances, while I suspect a good number of you simply hate on her because everyone else does), recasting her would have a much more visible impact on the movie going forward, and as such is much less likely to happen.

But please, for the love of God, don't bring back Vernon or Sachs. PLEASE.

Oh, and the Blue Door script was 75% crap, but it did have some gems. The Bebop & Rocksteady versus Splinter fight was pretty awesome, and I hope they keep it for the 2016 sequel!

The show chase was awesome. One of those in a new setting with Bebop & Rocksteady thrown in the mix sounds f**kin brilliant to me :lol: Would kill to see that.

He did dip his finger into what was left after the container was smashed, while he was laying in a crater in the pavement. So even if they don't even have any more mutagen, me thinks he will be sneaky and will analyze that small sample in order to recreate it.


I'm sure the only way Fox would be out is if she herself chose not to return to it. Probably have a better chance of winning the lotto than her being replaced. As long as sorts like Bay are involved, no way they're taking out the woman with a camera target on her ass. After all, in the 21st century that is more important than, you know, the acting, more suitable casting, etc. :roll:

Car chases and resultant car-crashing mayhem have always been my favorite part of TMNT. I really hope that there's an explosion in the chase scene. Explosions are the awesomest, you guys.

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And just think of all the stereotype Bebop and Rocksteady will be!

And all of the Megan Fox ass we'll see!

Won't it be great?!

nobody knows if Bebop and Rocksteady will be stereotypies or anything calm down TrollorTreater

Bebop is traditionally black. Odds of an offensive ethnic stereotype? 2 to 1, I'd say.

Rocksteady is lately Russian. Odds of an awesome Russian stereotype? Not sure.

Sorry, I'm a sucker for Russian tough-guy accents. :tlol:

Hey man I think you misspelled my name. It's cool just double check next time you know?

Anyway yes they totally will be. :lol:

Fifty bucks says there's a line of dialogue where Bebop says he can't read something. For the lulz, yo.

Then Rocksteady can piledrive two of the Turtles through a building (one Turtle for each hand), and the building can collapse. Audiences like it when things fall down and go boom, right? It'll be exxxtreme to the max!

Then Bebop and Rocksteady will finally be defeated when Mikey takes them both down by throwing bottles of Crush soda at them (product placement - check!). Right in the middle of the big fight scene between Super Shredder and the other three Turtles, Fox O'Neil can tear off her Victoria's Secret bra (more product placement - check!) and throw it at Shredder - his feet will get tangled in the bra straps and he will fall to his death (or will he?! Dun dun DUUUUN!) from the top of another skyscraper. Utterly epic.

The final scene shows shows all of our heroes together. They've won the day and saved the city from certain something - doom, viruses, plotholes, military whatsits... the specifics aren't important, we'll fix it in post. What is important is that Fox O'Neil is in her bikini, washing the Turtle van. The Turtles, Splinter and Vern are all sitting in the background reading Victoria's Secret catalogs. It's a fun and heartwarming scene.

Cut it and print it - I think this one's in the bag, folks! :tcool: You can give me my $500 million now, thanks.

You're too late, both actors have already announced they are returning.

Oh and seeing a ninja master get his ass handed to him by the villain's incompetent hechmen? Yeah that is so awesome.:roll:

Best thing I read all day :lol:

That was beautiful. :lol:
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And unfortunately for those film makers probably 10x more creative than anything they could ever come up with.

You've figured out the formula.

Michael Bay's solid gold kill-bots with his face on them are on their way.

Is it wrong my first thought was a rather satisfying image of taking a baseball bat to them...

Gold is a soft metal, it won't be difficult; on the contrary it will be fun. (Come, Turtles, join us and seek your vengeance.)

More Vernon... yay. More Eric Sachs... yay. Or rather, DAMMIT. :flaming:

I don't recall Splinter getting his ass handed to him by B&R in the script. Actually, he does a pretty good job of cleaning up. Except for the sheer mass and strength they possess, of course... not very unlike the current IDW comics.

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To be honest -- and it's a low bar here, so keep that in mind -- what other performances really stood out in this movie? Megan Fox was Megan Fox, Whoopi Goldberg, Minae Noji and Tohoru Masamune had almost nothing to work with, and while the Turtles' actors got some praise around here, honestly, only Noel Fisher as Michelangelo impressed me much at all - and even then the material didn't do him any favours. The material was bad, but Fichtner and Arnett are both very competent actors who were able to make some impression in spite of it -- not a great impression, but again, low bar.

So I can see why the studio might see them as assets to this series. It's pathetic that two of the few roles that could be seen as "highlights" (at least compared to everything else) have absolutely nothing to do with the actual concept, but that's the movie they chose to make. :ohwell:

I'm telling you now, Vern will become Casey Jones to win April's affections, and one of the Shreks will get Jealous.

B&R will show up inexlicably (significantly redesigned, of course), and this time you'll see product placement mid car chase.

Gah. Your logic frightens and depresses me. Personally, I think all of the mocap and voice-acting for the four Turtles was great. But apparently, unless you're Andy Serkis, you're not a real actor if you do mocap. :tgrumble: So you gotta have human faces to promote your film, so the little kiddies can identify who you are.

I am honestly frightened that this may be the case. What I would LOVE to see is Vern get killed and his cousin Casey comes to avenge him. Odds on that happening?

... Same as the odds that Oroku Saki was a former exosuit used by Ch'rell, who had moved on to become Eric Sachs in America. Remember that theory, when we were desperately clinging to hope? :tcry:

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It gets worse and worse...

Hey, I don't agree with it, but a lot of people think that way - including a lot movie executives. There's a reason the "human" characters tend to get the focus in movies with mocap/creature characters. And then there's the expense issue - we know for a fact that they cut a lot of things out of this movie because they couldn't afford to animate it all, so from get-go there's a limit on how much the Turtles are going to be on-screen in their own movie, and even then, when they are on screen they're mainly going to use that time for over-the-top action at the expense of any actual character work. So, y'know - just have Megan Fox running around and bring in the guy from Arrested Development to make wisecracks with the bulk of the screentime that's left, right? (All this has been covered here before, but y'know, bears repeating.)

I wasn't trying to disparage the Turtles' actors, though. I do think they did their absolute best, so I should have worded that differently - it's the material, the direction, and the style of the movie that let them down. Donnie and Raph were bland stereotypes, Leo didn't have much personality to speak of. They could have, and for all I know they did before the footage was hacked to pieces, but it doesn't come across in the movie as it was released, IMO.

Exactly. And from a business POV, it makes some sense... but from a story POV, it's terrible and somewhat insulting, too. Come watch April, Vern, Sachs, oh, and some mutant CGI characters, too!

Donnie was definitely the worst stereotype. I really wish they'd toned down the nerdisms on him.

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Have they? Crap...

If they didn't have the Turtles constantly in motion and pulling off otherwise impossible acrobatic stunts, then I imagine they'd be able to afford a lot more screen time for them. Have the Turtles goof off & lounge in the lair for a scene or two - is that too much to ask? .......oh, it is? Damn. :ohwell:

If my knowledge is correct here, even that is very expensive. I thought there was some interview with the cast where they said they had to cut some scenes alone those lines because they were putting most of the CGI/animation money on action scenes? (Unless I imagined that?)