If the trailer hadn't cringed the audiences away, we'd get a 3, but "We hate bullies" is pandering to the zeitgeist. The Turtles didn't need to announce their existence on the basis of hate.
Honestly I don't think there was anything that would have made Out of the Shadows a success. The trailers actually did their job very well in selling the movie as what the studio and production company thought people wanted. Heavily based on the Fred Wolf series, embracing the goofyness etc.
The trailers also did a great job at disguising a lot of the objective flaws of the movie such as the poor depictions of the Foot and Shredder and the complete lack of combat. The trailers made it seem like these were all going to be a bug part of the movie. Frankly if it was just "bad" trailers at fault then positive word of mouth would have given it a good second week and pulled in decent numbers against Finding Dory like the 2014 movie did against Guardians of the Galaxy.
The movie tanked because everyone involved vastly overestimated the appeal of their ultra goofy, 80s cartoon in live action approach plus the movie was pretty crappy in and of itself.
Part 3 would have Baxter going fly, and being manipulated by the Turtles to kill Shredder for them, so they can keep their PG hands clean.
That sounds too dark for these movies. Manipulating someone to kill your enemy would actually be interesting but I could never see it happening in anything as light weight as the Platinum Dunes movies.
I would imagine movie 3 would have had Baxter-fly with lasers chasing the turtles who are sliding or falling down some improbable location and climax with the turtles atop of some high up structure battling (largely dodging) Super Shredder while Donatello works on a retro mutagen ray intercut with April, Casey and Vern fighting B characters.
It'd be set in Tokyo to shake things
Megan Fox actually talked about the third movie sending the turtles off to Tokyo in the third to learn some new skills while April guards the city. It was clearly a joke but such a specific thing to joke about I wonder whether someone floated something like that to her as a genuine place movie 3 would go.
But, dead films tell no sequel-tales.
True.
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