Earlier we brought you notes from an interview with Andrew Form where he revealed that there was no script for their upcoming Friday the 13th movie. In the same interview, Form had some interesting news for fans of the heroes in a half shell, announcing the production start date for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 and confirming the appearance of Bebop and Rocksteady.
“We designed and we did lots of work on all of them and then only so many fit in the box and luckily we have another chance to make another one of these movies and some of those characters that got cut out of the first one can make it into the second one,” Form told Collider.
“We’re in prep right now. We start shooting in New York in April,” he added.
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The Michael Bay produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pulled in $477 million worldwide when it was released last year. The sequel was announced on its opening weekend, where it pulled in $65 million domestically.
Set for release on June 3rd 2016, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 will be directed this time by David Green (Earth to Echo) and should see a returning cast that includes Megan Fox (Transformers) as April O’Neil, Pete Ploszek (Parks and Recreation) and Johnny Knoxville (Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa) as Leonardo, Alan Ritchson (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) as Raphael, Jeremy Howard (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) as Donatello, Noel Fisher (Battle Los Angeles) as Michaelangelo, Danny Woodburn (Seinfeld) and Tony Shalhoub (Monk) as Splinter, Will Arnett (The LEGO Movie) as Vernon Fenwick, Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost) as Bernadette Thompson and Tohoru Masamune (Inception) as Shredder. You can listen to the Flickering Myth Podcast interview with William Fichtner using the player below:
Originally published January 15, 2015. Updated July 3, 2023.
