Originally Posted by Deadline

‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Sequel Underway; Bay To Return
By ANITA BUSCH | Sunday August 10, 2014 @ 8:17am

On the strength of the $65M-plus domestic opening of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Paramount announced this AM that a sequel is underway with Michael Bay steering the production once again. The project from Nickelodeon Movies will bow on June 3, 2016. Bay will produce alongside his Platinum Dunes partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, with Galen Walker and Scott Mednick. Screenwriters Josh Appelbaum & André Nemec (Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol) are again coming aboard to write the sequel and will also receive an exec producing credit. It’s not clear if Jonathan Liebsman will again direct. Kudos to Paramount’s marketing team led by Josh Greenstein — talk about negotiating from a place of strength.

The date for the sequel will come the same weekend as Sony is scheduled to bow the Jonah Hill/Seth Rogen comedy Sausage Party (Ugh, that title … must we?) and a week after Disney’s Alice in Wonderland and Fox’s next X-Men installment, Apocalypse.

The surprise box office hit bowed in 17 markets internationally this weekend to take in an estimated $28.7M (final figures will be out tomorrow). So its worldwide total is around $97.3M, depending on today’s grosses. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been playing well both during the family moviegoing matinees and the older 25-to-35 demo that pushes into evening and late-night showings. All told, this means Paramount and Bay have launched another franchise this summer after kicking it earlier with a gonzo $95.7M opening for Transformers: Age of Extinction. It’s been a Michael Bay summer for the studio. Some have called the latest Turtles revamp Transformers with Turtles.

“Launching a new take on the Turtles into the feature film world was a daunting task because as fans of them ourselves, we felt a great responsibility to ensure audiences were going to experience everything they loved about the Turtles, while also getting to see them brought to life in a way they had never been seen before,” said Adam Goodman, President of Paramount’s Film Group in a statement this AM. “The result exceeded our high expectations and the response to the film is beyond great, making it all the more fun to get started on the continuation of their story.”

Originally Posted by Bluelitespecial

Thats a pretty quick tunraround in two years. I hope its enough to make it good.

Originally Posted by Mike86

The 2014 film is a total piece of shit and I really can't see myself interested in a sequel unless it goes in a pretty different direction. I don't expect that to happen with the success the first film had though.

Originally Posted by RocShemp

I've only seen bits and pieces of the 2014 movie but must admit I have liked what I've seen. The turtles' personalities were spot on and I liked the fight choreography. However, I have issues with the messed up origin (don't mind their being lab animals but hate that they have zero connection to the Foot Clan).

Originally Posted by Mike86

The characters' personalities aren't the problem. If you want a film with anything that resembles a decent story look elsewhere. The origin changes were fucking stupid too.

Originally Posted by islandclaws

But April had them as pets! Which she somehow forgot. And she fed them pizza, so that is the logical reason why they enjoy it.

God, every single line of that script was painful.

Originally Posted by taffer

I like the origin in the IDW comic series. It's very different from the original origin, but it works better to explain how they can know ninjitsu and talk and stuff.

In the IDW origin,

Originally Posted by fumanstan

I'm usually someone that can find some entertainment in even shitty movies, but I thought the first Ninja Turtles was particularly bad. I don't have much faith in a sequel, but is it sad that Bebop and Rocksteady, or even Krang, would totally sell me?