Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an animated superhero musical film produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller and written by Casey and Colin Jost. This film is currently in development.

Story
One night at the Stocktronics Corporation, a young orphan named April O'Neil, who has the ability to talk to animals and whose life is dominated by the company's CEO, Baxter Stockman, sends a pigeon out to deliver a message to the New York City Police Department containing a plea for help. It was a success, and the message is soon presented on The Today Show by NYCPD's Detective Farrillo. According to the Detective, Stockman took April to his Corporation since her parents died when she was a baby to raise her as his own lab assistant, suspecting it as a form of child abduction at that time. In addition to Farrillo's suspicion, Stockman has been using April as leverage to win the New York City mayoral election, which he is currently running for mayor, while she is kept watch and heavily guarded in his headquarters by his Mousers.

Although April's plan for escape was thwarted by Stockman's younger brother, Barney Stockman, she asks the CEO that after the election, will she ever be adopted. However, Stockman urges her to stay with him, revealing that, once he becomes Mayor of New York City, only then will he adopt her as her father. However, after Stockman leaves, April privately turns down his offer and instead hopes for a better future waiting for her in the outside world. April then sneaks into Stockman's office to see what Stockman really intends to use the Mousers for. April boards the elevator, which takes her deep beneath the Stocktronics building. She finds herself in a facility where hundreds of Mousers are being produced, much more than needed to deal with the city's rat problem. It is at this point that April realizes that Stockman has a more devious plan. As she explores the facility further, April trips a silent motion sensor as she searches for a computer console to find more information about Stockman's plan.

No sooner, Stockman arrives and confronts April. April demands to know how he got the funding to build hundreds of Mousers when she realizes that her suspicions were correct: the Mousers were robbing the banks! Stockman then reveals his plan to blackmail the city to vote for him as mayor. April is confused, as she notes that Stockman could have made millions legally with his invention. Dr. Stockman not only replies that he's not doing it for money but because it's "fun.", but he's doing it for revenge because her father and his late boss, the CEO of the Techno Cosmic Research Institute (TCRI) named Dr. John Kirby O'Neil, wronged him since half a decade ago. Believing that April seen and knows too much about his Mouser production, Stockman arranges for April's literal termination, but not before telling her about his plans of vengeance first.

''He was a child prodigy who always had an evil streak in his heart due to being pushed around by his classmates at school, so he decided to develop an amazing brilliance by presenting a plastic volcano with real lava, but this ended up burning down the gym, resulting in his expulsion. He went on to re-develop this intellect by getting a job as an inventor at TCRI, but after getting fired for an incident that involved spilled copier toner, he vowed revenge on his classmates and co-workers for make a mockery of his failing intellect. He blames her father, Dr. O’Neil, for marginalizing him from society, and kills him and his wife before abducting April as a toddler when he hears of a mayoral election in the next four years.''

Once he drags April outside his headquarters, Stockman rallies the New Yorkers against April, claiming she is a witch who can talk to animals. An angry mob soon pursues April through the streets of New York, but she escapes into the sewers to avoid the lynching and find somewhere safe to hide. There, she meets the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, consisting of the spiritual Leonardo, the technological Donatello, the mighty Raphael, and the swift Michelangelo. Although the other three turtles welcome April to their lair, Raphael abruptly objects to her sudden advent on their property, only to be knocked out as punishment by Master Splinter's Randori (a wooden stick) for mouthing off his brothers in the process. As April is being decontaminated from the chase, she learns the truth about her father from Splinter which contains his and the TMNT's origins. In return before she goes to sleep, April thanks Splinter and the TMNT for saving her from the mob.

The next morning, the police, led by Detective Farrillo, visit the Turtles' lair to question about April and her motives. However, no action is taken since they recognized April as the daughter of the late CEO of TCRI, and she is pardoned of being a witch. ￼ Later, April, the Turtles, and Splinter visit the Second Time Around Apartments to find that her older homeroom is empty of all its property, only then to be confronted by an outlaw motorcycle club known as the Purple Dragons. The Purple Dragons Motorcycle Club confesses to the sextet that, after April's abduction at Stockman's hands, they took all her family's property for themselves before chasing them away. Later that night, a Mouser infiltrates into April's room to kill her in her sleep, but the girl bravely subdues it by stabbing it to deactivation by its heart. When the Turtles discover the intrusion, they decide to confront Stockman for attempted murder as they look forward to emerging into the world to fight for good after 15 years of hiding.

Once the Turtles arrive at Stocktronics Corporation, they fight through waves of Mousers roaming all over the factory. When the Turtles reach Stockman's office, however, they are ambushed, overpowered, and imprisoned by Stockman. Fortunately, on Election Day, Splinter presents April some records of Stockman's disparaging remarks about the people of New York, especially her parents, and later plays them during his next speech, destroying his image and forcing him to return to the lab, where he reveals his plan to abduct the ransom of every last company as revenge for what Dr. O'Neil did to him. Meanwhile, April and Splinter free the Turtles and return home to watch the news to find Stockman making his demands of the city. It seems that he's had the Mousers dig tunnels underneath every corporate headquarters in New York City, and if a ransom is not paid for each building, he will have the Mousers destroy the skyscrapers' foundations, thus causing them to crash to the ground.

Eventually, the Turtles foil Stockman's plan and infiltrate Stocktronics Corporation again. Angered by the Turtles' interference, Stockman attempts to have his army of Mousers bomb the city and kill everyone in New York, though the Turtles and April jam the signal and make the Mousers self-destruct. In response, Stockman holds April hostage, threatening to kill the girl if any Turtle moves. Leonardo goads Stockman into shooting him instead and reminds him he and his brothers are demons, but this backfires as uses his grenade launcher instead. As the grenade launcher fires, Leonardo ducks his head and the grenade hits the control module that controls the army of Mousers instead. Outnumbered four to one, Stockman retreats with April in tow, setting off an explosion to separate them from the Turtles.

Next, Stockman places blame on April for discrediting him and plans to throw her in a pot of boiling metal in part of what appears to be an industrial foundry. Eventually, April performs one last act of defiance against Stockman by throwing him in the molten metal instead with her self-thought ninjutsu maneuvers, killing him in the process, and then shutting the pot to ensure he doesn't escape. Suddenly, the pot overheats and explodes, engulfing and disintegrating the whole interior of Stocktronics Corporation in the process. Although the Turtles manage to escape the building safely, Barney decides to redeem himself by rescuing April, who is still trapped in the burning lab; he rushes back into the lab to save April, and they both escape by flinging themselves through one of the factory's windows by use of a machine just as the whole building explodes.

After the final battle, April is praised for her heroism and is accepted into the Turtles' family, who promises to train her to become a kunoichi, a female ninja, which April happily accepts when she finds out the family she had was inside her all along. The film ends with Barney, while mourning the loss of his older brother (yet commended for saving April's life), asking April about her well-being with the turtles; Detective Farrillo answers for the Turtles by giving a eulogy to Stockman, ending with "He created Stocktronics Corporation to destroy New York—and now, he has lost everything."

In the credits, the Turtles perform "Bohemian Rhapsody", which contains the consequences of the late Baxter Stockman's actions.

Cast
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Production
On June 20, 2018, it was reported that Paramount Pictures will once again reboot the series with Bay, Fuller and Form returning to produce the film and Andrew Dodge writing the script. Fuller and Form announced while at the 24th Critics' Choice Awards that production on the reboot is set to start in 2019. However, in July 2019, TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman revealed that the film is still in development and believed that Paramount took the reactions to the 2014 and 2016 films "to heart", and that "it's going to be a next-level type of stuff". In August 2021, Colin Jost and his brother Casey were announced replacing Dodge as screenwriters.