If you're making a sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and you're looking for someone to play the butt-kicking Casey Jones, who would you cast?

According to Variety, Michael Bay and his production company have turned to Stephen Amell, who we all know as Oliver Queen in Arrow.

According to the report, Megan Fox will return as April O'Neil with Will Arnett also returning.

Along with the report, Amell also tweeted the following:

The sequel is set for 2016. Thoughts?

Has April fools written all over it.

You know dis a lie

How would a fighting human contribute without a mechanized suit? The turtles would even stomp Arrow in this universe. I hope it's good though.

lol I could see it but IDK if true.

A better question is how is he going to fight Raph? You know those two have to fight. It's a Classic!!!

I wasn't a fan of the new Turtles movie but if he really is in it I'll probably go see it.

True. Mr. Amell better load up on some mutagen. xD

How does Gordon contribute to Batman?

1) There will be Mandatory shirtless scene

2) I can't even begin to imagine his Brooklyn accent

The OP should have put an actual Casey Jones picture.

XD

cannot imagine amell with dark hair though

I hope he uses the costume and gear he posted in the pic

Well, that was unexpected. Hoping Amell has some serious acting range.

"My name is Casey Jones".

...help me out, CV.

I think its a good choice. I have faith.

I hope this is true TMNT 2 just got a lot better

Not in the same way that Casey has been known to contribute to the Turtles.

Not everything is, or has to be, a direct fight. If so, Batman would be useless to the Justice League.

I'm for it if was real

That's true. Though Casey Jones has always been known (always been known) to fight the Turtles and their villain head on. So I don't think it was too outlandish to wonder how he would so that, if at all.

@xwraith:

My name is Casey Jones. I grew up lovin' two things, shootin' pucks and kickin' butts. But lately strange things have been goin' on in New York.

Monsters, mutants, Madmen and even aliens have run amok. I want to protect my city, but I can't do it alone.

In order to clean the streets I must work with someone else, I must work with SOMETHING else...

I didn't care for TMNT, but I will admittedly see this if Amell is in it.

Megan Fox will return as April O'Neil

Oroku Saki, you have failed this city!

Poor Amell, he's getting better, but he just can't act.

The fact that there will be a sequel to that POS is already a not-so-humorous April Fools joke on cinema. Hell, on society in general.

Oh sh!t, it's April Fool's day tomorrow.

WHAT WHAT!?!?

~MIB

WTF, This almost as unexpected as Killa Croc appearing Suicide Squad.

Damn, just checked that out. That's great casting.

@rogueshadow: Yeah it really is, on the list of characters I expect to appear in the DCCU he wasn't even on it.

Is this a April fools?

April fools.

This has got to be an April Fools' joke.

Wired casting.

April Fools! Casey will actually be played by Taylor Kitsch. XP

Wait! Ther's a part two? Whyyyyyyy???

well....I love Arrow and I love casey jones but...this is just weird. I must say though that If the second one is to be good (witch I think is a possibility if they play their cards right) then the need Casey Jones.

I really hope this is true

It's not April fools, why would it be? He's basically the playing the same type of character.

Clearly this version is gonna be amped. I wouldn't be shocked if he could pick up a car and toss it. #Notevenjoking

Well Amell said he'd be getting a new costume by the end of the season.

It's hard for me to remotely care about the casting when I disliked most of the TMNT movie. I will say it is cool how they're putting a lot of characters in the sequel though.

Still haven't watched the newest TMNT film.

I like Amell thought so if this is true I might have to check out both films.

Even though I'm a huge TMNT fan, I have still have yet to see the first Bay turtles movie because everything I saw of it/reviews of it were terrible to mediocre so I'm not interested in the sequel. Although, I have nothing against Amell (he's pretty good in Green Arrow) but I'm sure the small kids and mouth breathers will go see this even if Tommy Wiseau played Casey

@allstarsuperman: So you post of pic of the worse version? :P

@the_stegman: i approve of this as the opening words/scene in TMNT2

It's weird that people are asking if this is an April Fools Joke....when it was posted in March. It's unlikely to be a joke, but there's always the possibility.

With that all said, I can at least say there will be ONE thing I will like about TMNT 2. I really don't see why there's a sequel though. It was advertised a bit to get fans of the original, though it resembled the original in very few ways and angered most of the fans of the original (as far as I know), and though they say it was meant more for kids, like the originals, I don't know many kids who even liked the movie (I work at a school and showed the movie to my students, and they were bored). Also with how overpowered the turtles were in the reboot, I'm not sure they really need Casey Jones. I'm not sure how much help a human with sports equipment is going to be alongside giant turtles that are over 7 feet tall who know karate and have actual weapons. I'll probably check this out when it's on Redbox due to Amell.