Teen Titans (film)

Teen Titans is a 2015 live-action superhero comedy film adaptation based onto the comic with the same name by Legendary Pictures, Syncopy Films and DC Comics and Warner Bros and directed by Joe Carnahan. Originally titled for Teen Titans: The Movie, but was retitled to just Teen Titans to avoid confusion as title used for the film adaptation of the animated 2003 TV series from Cartoon Network, Teen Titans: The Movie in 2012. The film is also titled as Teen Titans 3D, but only for the support for the release of the film in 3D theaters.

Teen Titans will star Tyler Posey as Robin, Nathan Kress as Beast Boy, Corbin Bleu as Cyborg, Elizabeth Gillies as Raven and Amy Tammie as Starfire, the Teen Titan members - Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven and Starfire lives into the Titan tower where they first began a battle of evil. Johnny Deep also stars as the villain Slade, as well as Greyson Chance, Selena Gomez, Alex Meraz, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rihanna, Aaron Johnson and Aimee Teegarden. The film will be significantly similar to the Teen Titans episode "Go", but experiencing earlier life of the Titans before meeting and teaming together to fight against evil.

Teen Titans is scheduled to be released on June 26, 2015. Filming for Teen Titans begins in March 2015 and runs for five months in Los Angeles, California. Like other many films, Teen Titans will also be released in Real D 3D, IMAX 3D and 2D theaters. The film will first have it's world premiere in New York City starting June 15, 2015. Director Carnahan hints that Teen Titans may be the first film in the planned trilogy.

Premise
Teen Titans focuses on five ordinary teenagers teaming up to save the world for the first time.

Teen Titans

 * Tyler Posey as Robin, the member of the Teen Titans, as well as the leader for the team.
 * Eliabeth Gillies as Raven, one of the member of the Teen Titans, discovering with her dark powers.
 * Nathan Kress as Beast Boy, one of the member of the Teen Titans, green creature, who can transform into different animals.
 * Corbin Bleu as Cyborg, one of the member of the Teen Titans, has a human and robotic appearance with a red eye on the left.
 * Amy Tammie as Starfire, one of the member of the Teen Titans, a girl who was raised by aliens from her home of Tamarain.

Allies

 * Greyson Chance as Mas y Menos, the members of the Titans East, the twins who has their speeding abilit.
 * Aaron Johnson as Speedy, member of the Titans East, ability similar than Robin with mostly same weapons.
 * Alex Meraz as Aqualad, the member of the Titans East, who has a ability to have powers to control water.
 * Rihanna as Bumblebee, the member of the Titans East, wears a Bee costume and avoids to be a Bee and a secret love interest to Cyborg.

Villains

 * Johnny Depp as Slade, the villain who seeks to destroy the Teen Titans.
 * Selena Gomez as Jinx, the member of the High Five.
 * Jake Gyllenhaal as Mammoth, the member of the High Five.
 * Zachary Gordon will play as Gizmo, the member of the High Five.
 * JoJo as Blackfire, Starfire's evil sister from Tamaran.
 * Sterling Knight as Justin, Raven's crush.

Others

 * Carmen Electra as Nancy Stewart, news reportrer.
 * Dane Cook as Ben Stewart. Nancy's cameraman and brother.
 * Aimee Teegarden as Rose Wilson, Slade's daughter, who disappeared.

Development
Warner Bros. is developing a Teen Titans movie on July 2007. Akiva Goldsman & Mark Verheiden are writing the scripts for the characters to play. Greg Cipes, the voice of Beast Boy on the show, had stated that work on a new season was underway and that a live action Teen Titans film was planned for release at the end of 2012.

The producers for the movie begin to work on writting scripts for the movie on December 18, 2009. They are currently still working on the scripts for the film, which will take months of it to finish. The release date for movie has announced for July 15, 2011 release, but delayed it till November 18, 2011. The release date is now over June 28, 2013 release, following the release of the film adaptation of the 2003 TV series Teen Titans: The Movie.

Teen Titans movie adaptation made an interesting idea of the sets were met to made for the same idea of the other film adaptation like Thor, which set for release of May 6, 2011, Green Lanterm, also set for release of June 10, 2011, The First Avenger: Captain America, set for release of July 2011 and The Avengers, setting for release of May 4, 2012. The film will be competing as a summer movie like The Dark Knight, which brought its' box office success as well as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Legendary Pictures, Syncopy Films and DC Comics were producing the movie like they did with The Dark Knight, which was released on July 18, 2008, Watchmen, which was released on March 6, 2009 or Jonah Hex, which set to release of June 18, 2010. They also admitted that the film will not only feel like a superhero film, but will also feel like a action comedy, with a similar feeling to that Guardians of the Galaxy's genre.

Filming
Costing to an estimated $130 million to produce, Teen Titans began production on March 10, 2014 in Los Angeles, California, aiming for June 26, 2015 release. Sets for the Titan Tower was yet to be build setting in the middle of the ocean, which will not, but will be build at the end of the block. Filming for Teen Titans will take place in Los Angeles.

Tyler Posey and Amy Tammie were confirmed that they are filming a romantic scene between their characters Robin and Starfire. The different between Starfire from the TV show and the film will be different. Even though she is quite taller than Raven, Robin and Beast Boy in the TV show, in the film, she is shorter than all of the members of the Teen Titans. This is due to the fact that Tammie was only 5 ft tall when playing the characters while other actors playing the Titans are taller than her. Though, it was revealed that Tammie will be wearing boots that will be about five inches taller to make her look as tall as Robin and Beast Boy. And also, instead of wearing a wig, Tammie dyes her hair red for the role as Starfire.

Though the announcement says that the film will be releasing in 3D, the film was not shot entirely in 3D. Though, Warner Bros. is converting that the film will be made and will be released in 3D and IMAX 3D.

Casting
Most characters from the film are being replaced by different actors. Tyler Posey will play as Robin, the leader of the Teen Titans. Jenkins caught the role as Robin on January 2010. Although, Carter Jenkins and Cody Linely were originally is catching the role as Robin for the movie, but Jonas beaten him. Elizabeth Gillies will play as as Raven, one of the member of the Teen Titans, discovering with her dark powers. Gillies caught the role of Raven on January 2010, after searching for an child actress who would be able to play Raven for the new Teen Titans movie. Nathan Kress will play as Beast Boy, one of the member of the Teen Titans, green creature, who can transform into different animals. Kress caught the role of Beast Boy on January 2010. The producers of the movie stated that Lerman will not be painted in green, but will be only using the technology that they will paint his skin green.

Brandon Mychal Smith will play as Cyborg, one of the member of the Teen Titans, has a human and robotic appearance with a red eye on the left. Smith caught the role of Cyborg on January 2010. And Amy Tammie will play as Starfire, one of the member of the Teen Titans, a girl who was raised by aliens from her home of Tamarain. Tammie caught the role of Starfire on January 2010. Even though the character is taller than Beast Boy, Raven and Robin, Fanning will be wearing high heel boots to look slightly taller than Raven, when Fanning is the shortest cast member of the film. Tammie dropped 20 lbs to get some catch on playing a character who has a "extreme skinny and toned body". She also decides to dye her hair "red" rather than wearing a "red" wig for the role including making her hair longer by wearing red hair extensions. AnnaSophia Robb will play as Terra, Beast Boy's love interest, who joins the Teen Titans, but joins with Slade to attack them. Robb caught the role of Terra on February 2010. Although, writers of the film drops the character from the film because they feel that Terra is no longer a friend of the Titans.

Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten will play as Mas y Menos, the members of the Titans East, the twins who has their speeding abilit. The Sweeten twins both caught the role of Mas y Menos on February 2010. Although, the two are replaced by singer Greyson Chance, who makes his acting debut. Mike Erwin will play as Speedy, member of the Titans East, ability similar than Robin with mostly same weapons. Erwin caught the role of Speedy on February 2010. Erwin since voice Speedy from the TV series on Cartoon Network Teen Titans. Alex Meraz will play as Aqualad, the member of the Titans East, who has a ability to have powers to control water. Valderrama caught the role of Aqualad on February 2010. Solangle Knowles will play as Bumblebee, the member of the Titans East, wears a Bee costume and avoids to be a Bee. Knowles caught the role of Bumblebee on February 2010. Although, Raven-Symoné, Kelly Rowland and Beyoncé Knowles caught the role for Bumblebee, but Zoe Saldana has beat them for the role. She dropped out of the project due to filming another film, and Rihanna instead got the role.

Johnny Depp will play as Slade, the villain who seeks to destroy the Teen Titans. Deep caught the role of Slade on March 2010. Selena Gomez will play as Jinx, the member of the High Five. Cyrus caught the role of Jinx on March 2010. Although, Debby Ryan, Emily Osment and Demi Lovato also battle each other to play the role as Jinx, but Miley Cyrus beats them for the role. Gerard Butler will play as Mammoth, the member of the High Five. Butler caught the role of Mammoth on March 2010. Butler would need to gain some muscle in order to play Mammoth. Jake T. Austin will play as Gizmo, the member of the High Five. Austin caught the role of Gizmo on March 2010. And JoJo will as Blackfire, Starfire's evil sister from Tamaran. JoJo caught the role of Blackfire on March 2010. New characters will include Sterling Knight as Justin, Raven's crush. , Cameren Electra as Nancy Stewart, news reportrer. and Dane Cook as Ben Stewart. Nancy's cameraman and brother.

Release
After Warner Bros. release Teen Titans: The Movie in theaters on April 13, 2012, they will than release a live action Teen Titans film in theaters on June 26, 2015 in US, CAN, AUS and UK. The release date were usually set for other countries as well. The film will have its' IMAX and IMAX 3D release as well. The film has a different release date before and has significantly changed it a couple of times. It was originally schedule to release on November 11, 2011, but it waws delayed to May 30, 2012, than it got moved up about a few weeks early to May 9, 2012. Than, it got delayed again to April 23, 2013, than chose either August 16, 2013, and than got pushed forward to June 28, 2013. before Warner Bros. had enough and decided to cancel the project. The reason behind so many rescheduling release date for the film is due to "production issues".

Warner Bros. later decided to give it another chance, and chose the new release date for June 26, 2015, after the box office success of Teen Titans: The Movie and commercial rating success of Teen Titans Go. Warner Bros. is happy for both success, and they feel like they should give another chance to start production for the film once again and hopefully not to have any issues, before finally picking the June 26, 2015 release worldwide.

Teen Titans will first be releasing in Germany on June 24, 2015, also followed by various releases in international countries that same day as well.

Like most major Hollywood films, Teen Titans will be having a late night showings in theaters starting June 25, 2015 around 8:00 to 9:30 pm, and also including 12:00 am and later showings as well, before it's theatrical release in theaters on June 26 the next day.

Promotion
The film debut it's teaser trailer on November 2014. A one minute preview for the film was showing during a commercial break of the 2015 Super Bowl beginning on February 1, 2015. On May 2015, the final feature length trailer for the film was released.

Tickets for the film start going on sale starting April 24, 2015, just two months prier before the release of Teen Titans in theaters. Just hours after the beginning of ticket sales, it is already the fastest selling ticket seller of 2015 in Fandango, which has nearly has been sold them since then. 2D tickets has been sold as more than 3D tickets. This is due to the facts that audiences refuses to see Teen Titans in 3D, due to the ticket sale prices.

The United States world premiere for the film was held in New York City on June 15, 2015, about a week before the film's theatrical release in theaters. It will also be promoting a London premiere for Teen Titans on June 22, 2015 for the United Kingdom.

As of June 2015, the film is rated PG-13 by the MPPA for "intense sequences, some mild sensuality and language."

Title
The film's title has changed multiple times depending on the film's project to be about.

The main title for the film was supposed to be titled as Teen Titans: The Movie. Though, they released the film adaptation of Cartoon Network's 2003 TV series, Teen Titans: The Movie, released in theaters on April 13, 2012, so they changed the title to just Teen Titans.

Despite that the film is being released in 3D, most of the time the film would be titled as Teen Titans 3D, including some film posters release to support the release for the film in 3D.

Critical reception
Before the film was released, Teen Titans is called by various critics saying that it is yet by far one of 2015's "most anticipated films" yet. However, it already received mixed praise by fans for the film. It involves about the film's moments, as well as cast members of the characters and more. Some say that "the film is the best movie in years," and "the movie looks good, but the casting does not look that great.

Sequel
Warner Bros. is aiming for a sequel of a planned live-action Teen Titans trilogy, leading production to begin at least a year. If Teen Titans becomes a blockbuster success, two more films will be made for the Titans journey to find Slade's missing daughter. The original cast, who played the Teen Titans are expecting to reprise their roles, as Posey already confirmed that he will "definitely" be returning as Robin for the film, though Tammie is unsure if she could be returning as Starfire for the next two films as she is currently attending college. Kress says "it feels awesome to play my charcter" and says he is "looking forward" on returning as Beast Boy for a projected sequel.

Director Carnahan hints that Teen Titans may be the first film of the planned trilogy, as he is currently working on writing scripts for the second film, though it was not yet green lighted.