Smallville's Aquaman Alan Ritchson Cast As Raphael
 

http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/hung...ninja-turtles/

Just saw this. Words fail me.:roll:

Alan Ritchson To Play Raphael In ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’
 

Well, its begun. I said we'd be hearing about casting real soon. Some guy called Alan Ritchson is playing Raph. With filming less than a month away the rest of March should be pretty heavy with casting news. This is the article from Deadline Hollywood:

Motion-capture is the best way to go, IMO. Can't wait to see what the designs are like.

Too slow again. Oh well......

This guy is 6' 2". It’s going to be motion-capture, so Raph is obviously going to be pretty big.

Never heard of him.

Aquaman is playing Raphael! NIIICCCCEEE! Hope he brings justice to the role and make Raphael his own just like Rob Paulsen, Josh Pais, Sean Astin and Nolan North(among other Raphaels) did.

For those wondering who is this guy,Alan Ritchson was a singer on American Idol, Thad Castle on Blue Mountain State and Aquaman on Smallville(a very cool Aquaman at that and part of the reason why I am a big fan of Smallville).

The only question is which Raphael is he doing: the sullen loner Raphael with anger problems from the comics,2K3, movies and most incarnations of Raphael or the 80s joker Raphael who broke the 4th wall from the 80s cartoon and aborted script.

I recall that the article from The Hollywood Reporter about Megan Fox being cast said that the Turtles would all be relative unknowns. So I wouldn't expect any big (or even known) names for the Turtles. Just a gut feeling, but I think they may get a veteran to play Splinter.

will greg cipes voice Mikey? found this on Bays forum: http://www.shootfortheedit.com/forum...854#post205854

never heard of this Alan Ritchson guy, will look him up.

Greg Cipes should play Mikey, because his Michelangelo rocks.

Well, this guy seems to do primarily athletic roles. I appears they will be casting the same actors for mocap and voice. I guess that's best. They can capture his face and kind of overlay a beak.

Right, the 2012 actors(tied with 1990 movie cast and 2007 movie cast) are the voices I hear when I read the turtle comics now.

For those wondering who is this guy,Alan Ritchson was a singer on American Idol, Thad Castle on Blue Mountain State and Aquaman on Smallville.

We would need an account to see those links.

Alan Ritchson as Raphael?? He's an ok singer. Didn't make it past the Hollywood round. But he's put out a couple albums. Guess he'll also put a song on the movie soundtrack. At least Alan's cute and I loved him as Aquaman in Smallville.

http://www.flicksandbits.com/wp-cont...n-ritchson.jpg

What difference does it make if he's cute? He's playing an anthropomorphic turtle.

so i just looked him up to see what his voice sounds like.. can't really picture him as raph. also really really hope he does NOT do a song for the movie!

Haha! Yes! :tsmile:

I doubt Cipes will be in this. Judging by the build of this guy, they're getting the same dudes to do voice and motion capture.

Oh. Right. Good point.

Duder is 6'3". The hell?

I am guessing Raphael is going to go from being the shortest in the Nick toon to the tallest in this film?? :tlol:

I hope someone else will do the mo cap. he is way 2 tall 2 be a turtle..

Never even heard of him, but nice to hear of news that shows that progress is being made.

Michael Bay is casting model-looking people for this film. I wonder what Splinter will look like?

Model-looking people whose faces will be hidden behind a digitally created humanoid turtle. I hardly think you'll be able to tell who’s underneath all that digital “makeup”.

Truth.

Mark Ruffalo wore a green suit and ran around during a lot of the Hulk stuff for Avengers and the Hulk didn't look anything like him *laughs*

I know this may sound a bit cynical, but I have a feeling that one of the main reasons why the Turtles will almost definitely be played and voiced by unknowns is down to money and the need to save it. Motion-capture is quite expensive, so a lot of the budget is going to go towards that. If they were to cast four big “names” as the Turtles, even though you’d never be able to “see” them, that would just be a colossal waste of money.

Really? I thought it did.
Just like Gollum looks an awful lot like Sirkis.

Both of those are also good examples of why the turtles might not be as large as their actors.

We'll just see if he can pull off a Brooklyn accent and be the raging reptile that he is known to be.

To answer ur tweets, YES I'm Raphael. I u think u know what to expect, u have NO idea.. You won't be disappointed. Trust me.. #TMNT -- Alan Ritchson (@alanritchson)

lol.

Uhh....thought Mikey was shortest...

I watched him in Smallville. He wasn't a horrible actor or anything. His Arthur Curry/Aquaman was a surfer type. He did pretty good with it.


But his voice? Ehh...idk....

A singer from American Idol is playing my favorite character...

And Smallville...that piece of crap...as Aquaman, one of the worst superheroes of all time...

Alan...I DO know what I'm expecting, and it's called Failure...

And yes...I will be mean and judgemental, because if the makers of this BS called a film don't give a crap, then I don't really care to give them a 'benefit of the doubt'...and with Megan Fox, a singer of American Idol, alien-talk, the director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning...

Yes...I will be that fanboy, doom & gloom, whiny guy...and lol I don't really care how whiny I sound at this point. It's just my honest opinion on this BS.

Like others have said, the size of the actor doesn't really matter with mo cap.
I've had the chance to do mo cap for a video game and the two characters I've 'played' were almost half my size.
The movement of the actor is just mapped onto the virtual character, bigger or smaller.

Size matters not. :twink:

Anyway, I've only seen Ritchson in Smallville. He was pretty OK as Aquaman. If he's gonna have what it takes to nail the temperamental Raphael... Well, I guess we'll have to find out.

The way things are going now... Michael Madsen? John Travolta? Hey, what about Brian Austin Green as Casey Jones? That'll bring a smile on miss Fox' face.
In fact nothing would surprise me anymore.

Whoa, **** you too buddy.

I don't know any more about motion capture than the average guy. But I have to imagine size would be an issue if that motion-captured character is physically interacting with live characters, like in a fight.
I mean, if you had to lower a guys' shoulders by a foot, that's gonna change the way he'd have to swing his arm punch to hit a man in the face, cause the real guy's height isn't gonna change.

Maybe these turtles are just gonna be big.

EDIT:
If this is the case, and the turtles are as big as this actor, part of me thinks they would cut down on the CGI if they could. Like how parts of Iron Man's suit are real sometimes, for the sake of believability. If it were up to me, and I had 6ft turtles, I'd build a real shells. It would be easier for the interactions, too. Rolls or whatever.
I'm just talking out of my butt, at this point.
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See you on opening night!

Also American Idol takes away cred for some reason? Jennifer Hudson?

where are all the death threats? rant vids etc?

i got my popcorn ready!

go to town on this underwear model! lol

You really need to work on some new material.

I don't understand why they're hyping up actors when we won't even see their faces.

Riiiight. See you there too. I'm sure you'll have some 'hilarious' joke to tell about the movie.

Not familiar enough to have an opinion... but cool.