First look at Fox as April

[chrisdude]

Originally Posted by 1984TMNT

Then why would they have Japanese characters on these uniforms? Weird.... Perhaps these guys are the foot, dressed this way for only 1 particular scene / operation where it would be applicable?

I guess that's kind of what I meant when I said maybe they're ninjas and this is how they dress. They may just not have wanted people running around NYC in ninja suits, just trying to make the 'ninja clan in 2014 NYC' thing seem a little less ridiculous.

[Galactus]

The Foot being given a militaristic look in and of itself doesn't bother me. Kind of like Ra's Al Ghul's ninjas in the final scenes of Batman Begins and even the Imagi TMNT movie and to a degree the later Mirage Foot and Foot Tech in the 4Kids series lend themselves to slight military look.

The fact that it seems to point to the Foot actualy being a military group under the command of alien colonel Schrader that is what is truly bothersome.

Also those masks are weird. Are they supposed to be the actual faces or actual disguises in the story? I can't for the life of me think of a scenerio were in a TMNT story were the foot have to do that. It doesn't send off alarm bells but does confuse the hell out of me.

[1984TMNT]

Originally Posted by chrisdude

I guess that's kind of what I meant when I said maybe they're ninjas and this is how they dress. They may just not have wanted people running around NYC in ninja suits, just trying to make the 'ninja clan in 2014 NYC' thing seem a little less ridiculous.

Ah, yeah....that seems very plausible.

Originally Posted by Galactus

The Foot being given a militaristic look in and of itself doesn't bother me. Kind of like Ra's Al Ghul's ninjas in the final scenes of Batman Begins and even the Imagi TMNT movie and to a degree the later Mirage Foot and Foot Tech in the 4Kids series lend themselves to slight military look.

The fact that it seems to point to the Foot actualy being a military group under the command of alien colonel Schrader that is what is truly bothersome.

Also thos masks are weird. Are they supposed to be the actual Foot faces or actual disguises in the story? I can't for the life of me think of a scenerio were in a TMNT story were the foot have to do that. It doesn't send off alarm bells but does confuse the hell out of me.

I agree the masks are very odd. I'm hoping that this does not point to Schrader and the whole military aspect of the original script, but at this point I'm not sure what to think or what this is actually pointing to.

[chrisdude]

Well, the Foot always wear masks, so I could accept that this is just how they cover their faces.

They look to be carrying knives? Who knows whether they had ninja weapons or guns when they were filming. That sure would answer questions...

[Cipher]

Originally Posted by chrisdude

If you guys wanna really dig into this, somebody can figure out what's written on this guy's shoulder.

Spoiler:

It says "2 9." Not like the way you would normally write "twent-nine," but just "two nine."

Also, that's a girl, right? I actually thought it was Megan Fox at first, hence my interpreting it as a stupid disguise-yourself-as-a-bad-guy scene.

Originally Posted by zkarlette

If you compare it to the symbol that the foot had in the original movie you could see some similarities.

Nooooooope.

[Xav]

Not to happy about April being a reporter, and those Foot Soldiers look stupid. They don't even look like Ninjas at all.

[Andrew NDB]

Probably during the last rewrite when Paramount shut down production, some compromises were made. Basically... "OK, we'll make them mutants again... but we're keeping Colonel Shrader, and the Foot will remain a military unit... but they'll be a Japanese military unit!"

[BubblyShell22]

My thought is maybe they wear the masks to commit robberies. This time around, the Foot could be covering as a military base and do crime on the side. That's the way I look at it, hence the masks. But if that's not the case, then they look weird.

[Andrew NDB]

The "mask"? Uh... I'm about 80% sure it's because the guy in that picture is to be shown from afar, probably in a mob of other Foot Soldiers (now, literally Foot Soldiers) who are supposed to be Japanese. You know, so far back that to the camera, you can't tell if it's a face or a mask.

They'll have the actual Japanese or Can-Pass-for-Japanese-at-a-Glance guys in the forefront.

[fshocker]

This image is just funny of what megan fox might look like on set. Found it on the tmntfanpage on facebook

[chrisdude]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Probably during the last rewrite when Paramount shut down production, some compromises were made. Basically... "OK, we'll make them mutants again... but we're keeping Colonel Shrader, and the Foot will remain a military unit... but they'll be a Japanese military unit!"

Yeah...
I'm willing to bet they'll keep Dimension X in there too. whatever they had planned for the sequel was surely dependent on it. And it's gotta be nuts..

[Xav]

If the Foot Clan aren't Ninjas anymore then how the heck do the Turtles learn martial arts? Yoshi has always come from the Foot Clan, and either his pet rat Splinter learns martial arts from him and teaches to the Turtles, or he becomes Splinter and teaches it to the Turtles.

[The Stryker]

Originally Posted by Xav

If the Foot Clan aren't Ninjas anymore then how the heck do the Turtles learn martial arts? Yoshi has always come from the Foot Clan, and either his pet rat Splinter learns martial arts from him and teaches to the Turtles, or he becomes Splinter and teaches it to the Turtles.

Maybe he learns it from somewhere else and passes it on?

[Cure]

I'm starting to wonder if someone is abusing the tag system.

[CyberCubed]

Somebody keeps adding "cybercubed thinks deep" to all the threads I make.

[raphfan84]

Originally Posted by fshocker

This image is just funny of what megan fox might look like on set. Found it on the tmntfanpage on facebook

That is neat how that is done, but I do not like that look for the Turtles I hope they don't look that way in the movie!

[1984TMNT]

Originally Posted by raphfan84

That is neat how that is done, but I do not like that look for the Turtles I hope they don't look that way in the movie!

Yeah, something about the eyes is off....and he is too stocky/bulky, in my opinion.

Pretty sure this has nothing to do with how they will actually look in the movie, however.

[Bob]

Don’t worry, that above picture is a complete fake. I would assume the Turtles’ designs will be more “grounded” and “real”. I’m actually more interested in what they’ve come up with for Splinter.

As for the military aspect, I've conceded that its probably still in. I'm pretty positive Will Arnett is playing Colonel Schrader. As has been said I think the compromise was to turn the Turtles back into mutants, whilst keeping everything else.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Bob

Don’t worry, that above picture is a complete fake. I would assume the Turtles’ designs will be more “grounded” and “real”. I’m actually more interested in what they’ve come up with for Splinter.

Unless the turtles are designed to be ugly looking, not sure how much more real they can make them.

[raphfan84]

Yeah I was actually thinking about that today as to what Splinter would look like. I am also curious as who there casting for Shredder and as what way he will look also...as far as how big or small they will go with his blades and such on his shoulders and such?