Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2

We were a little confused by the lack of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ most notorious villain last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, but have no fear: the upcoming sequel is finally adding Shredder to the mix…along with BeBop, Rocksteady and Baxter Stockman. That’s a whole lot of villains, but there’s none more iconic or imposing than Shredder, who will be played by Brian Tee, one of Hugh Jackman’s co-stars in The Wolverine.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 is heading into production with director David Green (Earth to Echo), with Michael Bay once again producing. The sequel is bringing along a few familiar faces, as well as new ones, like classic villains Bebop and Rocksteady, and while it will be some time before we get a peek at those guys, Bay has dropped the first photos from the set of the upcoming sequel, featuring some vibrant new vehicles.

Give Tyler Perry this much: The man is unpredictable. After carving out his own extremely lucrative and popular place in the world of indie film writing and directing a series of melodramas and comedies, he’s spent more and more time in the last couple years building up his acting resume in Hollywood. He starred as the title character in the cop thriller Alex Cross, and gave a really great supporting performance as a sleazy lawyer in David Fincher’s Gone Girl. So how do you follow up that one-two punch of crime and graft? Obviously by playing a mad scientist who turns into a giant fly in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.

Production on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Half Shell, maybe) is gearing up, which means we’re going to start hearing some casting announcements — like this one, which should make geeky fans pretty stoked: Arrow star Stephen Amell has just joined the cast of the upcoming sequel, playing the one and only Casey Jones.

However you personally felt about last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, the film made enough bank at the box office to warrant a sequel, which is already in the works with Earth to Echo director David Green sitting at the helm. We don’t know much else about the upcoming sequel, but we may have just learned the title from a fairly unlikely source.

One of the most surprising success stories of the year was the Michael Bay-produced ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ reboot, which wound up grossing $464 million worldwide. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman, the new, live-action take on the Turtles may have left something to be desired among critics, but audiences proved that there’s still a healthy fanbase for the enduring heroes—which is why there’s a sequel in the works. Liebesman won’t be returning, however, but Paramount has already found his replacement.

Now that the Michael Bay-produced 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' reboot has cleaned up on the box office, the inevitable can be announced: 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2' is officially on the way. Like for real. It has screenwriters and a release date and everything!