Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (2024 film)

Ninja Turtles 3 is a 2024 upcoming live-action American sci-fi superhero film directed by J.J Abrams, 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, along with previous and new threats. The film also features the 1990 Ninja Turtles.

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, but it then shows the whole life of the Turtles in the form of snippets

Act 1
The Turtles wake up to the news that a bunch of robbers having been stealing things downtown, the Turtles then go downtown to stop the robbers, 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
 * Ezra Miller (Voice and motion-capture), Terry Notary (motion-capture), and Frank Welker (grunts and roars) as Slash

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 also tweeted that they were planning to add classic villains from the old cartoon, he also tweeted that the new film was gonna be a soft reboot, with all the cast back, although the Turtles would get redesigned, and it would take place after the second film.

by April 2022, work was underway, the script had been finished, the cast was confirmed, and filming had been in early phases, although due to Ezra Miller (who was originally set to play Slash) doing a lot of bad things, he was removed from billing and is never referenced in any trailer or ad, all of his scenes were even redone by Terry Notary (although his lines were kept), although the Notary reshoots ending up being temporary, as only 5 of them made it to the final film, with most of Miller's original mo-cap being brought back for the finished film.

Filming took place from February 15, 2022 to November 6, 2022.

Marketing
on July 7, 2022, a teaser was released, it only features snippets of footage, and a logo, the teaser also featured footage not seen in the film, which made fun of Night at the Museum and the 1998 Godzilla film.

On December 15th, 2022, a poster was revealed, which announced on New Year's Eve, a full teaser would be released, the trailer was released that day, it ended up becoming the 4th most viewed trailer on YouTube.