Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (2024 film)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Blue Blood is a 2024 upcoming live-action American sci-fi superhero film directed by Steven Caple Jr., produced by Michael Bay and Kevin Eastman, and written by Colin and Casey Jost, it is a sequel to 2016's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, itself, a sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), the film follows the Turtles as they try to save the world from Lord Dregg, and look for a diamond that he has been trying to steal called The Blue Blood. The film also features the 1990 Ninja Turtles. The film cost $258 million, being one of the most expensive films ever made.

Prologue
The movie opens with a flashback with an alien (revealed to be the evil Lord Dregg) summoning a ball, which is revealed to be a god, it gives him powers, it cuts to modern day, where in London, where Charles III is talking with the head of a spy organization, played by Mark Strong, when Lord Dregg steals a diamond called "The Blue Blood". The title is then shown.

Act 1
TBA

Cast

 * Chris Evans (voice) and Pete Ploszek (motion-capture) as Leonardo, Evans replaces Ploszek from the second film.


 * Noel Fisher as Michelangelo
 * Jeremy Howard as Donatello
 * Alan Ritchson as Raphael
 * Megan Fox as April O'Neil
 * Stephen Amell as Casey Jones
 * Scarlett Johansson as Ninjara
 * Brian Tee as the Shredder
 * Tyler Perry as Baxter Stockman
 * T.J Miller as TBA
 * Terry Notary (motion-capture), and Frank Welker (grunts and roars) as Slash
 * Brian Tochi as 90s Leonardo
 * Corey Feldman as 90s Donatello
 * Robbie Rist as 90s Michaelangelo
 * Josh Pais as 90s Raphael

Original plans
Noel Fisher stated in an interview that he and the other Turtle actors had signed on for three films. Megan Fox had also signed on for three films. Tyler Perry said that if a third film was made, his character, Baxter Stockman, would probably mutate into his fly form during the movie. Pete Ploszek also expressed his interests in reprising his role in a third film as Leonardo. In October 2016, in light of the film's mixed reception and financial underperformance, producer Andrew Form indicated that a third film was unlikely.

Re-development
In 2021, after numerous attempts of Platinum Dunes trying to reboot the films, it was announced that Colin and Casey Jost were hired to make a new TMNT film, along with a new set of three films, these are all separate from the Rogen movie, Andrew Form announced that they are planning to feature Lord Dregg as the Villain, and that it would be a soft reboot.

by April 2023, work was underway, the script had been finished, the cast was confirmed, and filming had begun. The film suffered major delays to the Writers and Actors strike of 2023.

Filming took place from February 15, 2023 to November 6, 2023

Marketing
During the Super Bowl, a teaser was released, the teaser was 1 minute and 35 seconds long, and didn't show footage from the film until 25 seconds in. TBD