Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo cast

[chrisdude]

EXCLUSIVE: Last week, I broke that Paramount Pictures had set The Hunger Games: Catching Fire newcomer Alan Ritchson to play Raphael in the reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Allow me to lift the shell off who’ll be playing the other three turtles. I’m told that Pete Ploszek will play Leonardo, Jeremy Howard will play Donatello and Noel Fisher will play Michaelangelo in the Jonathan Liebesman-directed film. Now, the turtles in the original movies were kind of interchangeable, stuffed into those cheesy costumes, but this is supposed to be a more sophisticated Avatar-like approach. It should give the quartet better exposure, especially since Paramount views this as a franchise. Megan Fox was already set as female lead, and they will lock the bad guy Shredder shortly. Paramount has already dated Ninja Turtles for June 6, 2014.

Ploszek came out of the USC Masters program and has done guest appearances on Parks and Recreation and Shameless, and he’s repped by Gersh and Principal LA.

Howard I don’t know much about, but I’m sure his reps will educate me shortly.

Fisher played a strong role in Hatfields & McCoys, and he was in the cast of the final Twilight Saga film and also appeared in Liebesman’s Battle Los Angeles. He’s repped by UTA and New Wave Entertainment.

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

[NinjaPug]

Dont know anything about these guys but I think that was the plan.

Deadline Lifts The Shell Off The Ninja Turtles

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 25, 2013 @ 10:01am PDT

EXCLUSIVE: Last week, I broke that Paramount Pictures had set The Hunger Games: Catching Fire newcomer Alan Ritchson to play Raphael in the reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Allow me to lift the shell off who’ll be playing the other three turtles. I’m told that Pete Ploszek will play Leonardo, Jeremy Howard will play Donatello and Noel Fisher will play Michaelangelo in the Jonathan Liebesman-directed film. Now, the turtles in the original movies were kind of interchangeable, stuffed into those cheesy costumes, but this is supposed to be a more sophisticated Avatar-like approach. It should give the quartet better exposure, especially since Paramount views this as a franchise. Megan Fox was already set as female lead, and they will lock the bad guy Shredder shortly. Paramount has already dated Ninja Turtles for June 6, 2014.

Ploszek came out of the USC Masters program and has done guest appearances on Parks and Recreation and Shameless, and he’s repped by Gersh and Principal LA.

Howard I don’t know much about, but I’m sure his reps will educate me shortly.

Fisher played a strong role in Hatfields & McCoys, and he was in the cast of the final Twilight Saga film and also appeared in Liebesman’s Battle Los Angeles. He’s repped by UTA and New Wave Entertainment.

[Bob]

"They will lock the bad guy Shredder shortly". Interesting. Can safely say I have no idea who any of these actors are. They should get a veteran to portray Splinter. The only one who's done more stuff is the guy who's playing Donatello. IMDB lists him as being 6' 4". The guy who is playing Leonardo also looks tall, whereas the guy who is playing Michaelangelo is 5' 9". Casting so many tall people can't just be a coincidence. I think they're going to keep their real heights.

[Shark_Blade]

Not Colonel Schradder? Has the alien story being dumped? :'D

I don't mind the cast, just do your best.

[Bob]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

Not Colonel Schradder? Has the alien story being dumped? :'D

I don't mind the cast, just do your best.

I don't know, I wouldn't get too excited. I believe they definitely haven't ejected the alien angle. Mainly because it was basically the plot of the film. However, the whole Colonel Schraeder thing could have gone the way of the dodo. I hope so, but even that I doubt. If they get an Asian actor for Shredder, then hopefully that should give us an indication that Colonel Schraeder has been changed. Can't wait to see who they get for Splinter. Surprised they haven't announced who's playing Casey yet. He was pretty much the main lead in the leaked script.

[CyberCubed]

I hope to god this is a sign that Shredder is indeed...Shredder.

[Kunoichi_Haruko]

Thanks for the news. Again, don't know these guys, so no real opinion. I'm trying formulate one, but I've got nothing, just another shrug.

Curious about Casey, as Deadline didn't say whether they were looking to lock that bit down...

I hope to god this is a sign that Shredder is indeed...Shredder.

Fingers crossed, as always...

[plasticturtle]

Cheesy costumes my ass. They're going to have to work hard to top the first movie. All the fancy CGI in the world isn't enough if the script is bad and the characters are off. I hope this new film DOES top the previous four. But knocking the stellar effects of the first film isn't very classy.

[Slap-Happy]

In fine with this. Noel Fisher's a good choice for Mike. Haven't seen Howard in too much, but from what I have seen, he'll do alright as Don. Haven't seen Pete in anything though, but he seems to be a good choice for Leo.

Except for Megan Fox as April, I'm okay with this casting news.

EDIT: Let's stop arguing about the Alien thing for now. After Bay said it was dropped, nothing, except for the ski slope location, has indicated that they have or haven't kept it.

Also, if Shredder is cast as an Asian man, that doesn't give any indication that it's not Schrader.

[chrisdude]

The only person I recognized was Jeremy Howard. He was the four armed alien at the post office in Men In Black II

The most I could find on Pete Ploszek is an old profile page from his college football days, as he seems to have only done a couple guest spots on TV.
http://www.goprincetontigers.com/Vie...&ATCLID=508129

[Dirty Blond]

I'm a huge Noel Fischer fan, as you might imagine.

NF:


DB:

[Raph's Girl]

Looking up these people:

I've seen Jeremy Howard in: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (he was Cindy Lou Who's brother, Drew), Galaxy Quest, and MIB II. Seems to be just a minor character actor. Donatello is his first uh major role. His father is Joe Howard who I totally loved in Mathnet and Square One!

Pete Ploszek...I don't watch Parks and Recretion or Shameless so Im not familiar with his acting skills at all.

Noel Fisher: He was pretty good in Hatfields and McCoy's. He's in Shameless with Pete so at least those 2 know each other already. But Noel has done some voice work as well. He was Toad in X-Men Evolution.

[the fixer]

Interesting... Big news keeps on pourin' in these days...

I think the only actor I've seen at work so far is Alan Ritchson in Smallville. The others are complete strangers to me...

Now let's keep our fingers crossed for Shredder, Splinter (and Casey if he's in this at all...)

[Candy Kappa]

relatively no-names. I have little relationship to any of them, but cool to know who voiced Evo Toad.

looks more interesting then the Megan Fox news

[TMNT is cooler than MOTU]

No clue who most of these guys are, but Noel did a great job with Shameless and Hatfields & McCoys. Interesting to see the heights of these actors, though. I don't think we'll get the shorties from the cartoons and comics.

[the fixer]

Originally Posted by TMNT is cooler than MOTU

Interesting to see the heights of these actors, though. I don't think we'll get the shorties from the cartoons and comics.

[sgtfbomb]

-Gollum
-Ceaser from Rise of the Planet of the Apes
-King Kong (2005)
-Half the characters from Avatar
-The Hulk (including Hulk, The Incredible Hulk, and Avatar)


These are all examples of characters brought to life using mo-cap with actors who are nowhere near the size or build of their actors.

[ryukenden]

I take it these guys are going to be in mocap suits and provide the voices. Unless stuntmen are going to do all the action, I'm assuming these guys had to be able to perform feats of martial arts in their audition as well as try out the signature weapons. Turtles that are six foot tall each? That would be something. Let's see if Pete can slice and dice with dual katana, Jeremy bashing away with a bo, Noel to pound away with nunchaku, and Alan poking away with Sai.

[Andrew NDB]

Oh, who cares who they cast as the Turtles, really? I couldn't even tell you who the actors playing the Turtles in any of the first four movies were and I would bet you the average moviegoer can't either.

We're probably looking at mo-cap and limited suit work for the Turtles when they're walking around/talking, and then either solid CGI or stuntmen when the "ninja action" is happening.

[TurtleTitan97]

The only one I know out of these three is Noel Fisher. I thought he did alright as Toad in X-Men Evolution, but I'm not sure about him as Mikey. Hopefully he'll do a good job as him.