{"id":7814,"date":"2013-03-25T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/?p=7814"},"modified":"2013-03-25T11:34:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:34:53","slug":"ninja-turtle-film-reboot-now-has-all-4-turtles-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=7814","title":{"rendered":"NINJA TURTLE Film Reboot now has all 4 Turtles Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TMNT01672012.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7815 aligncenter\" alt=\"TMNT01672012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TMNT01672012.jpeg\" width=\"603\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes you heard me right, it was revealed via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/03\/deadline-lifts-the-shell-off-the-ninja-turtles\/#utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Deadline <\/a>that the highly\u00a0controversial\u00a0<strong>Michael Bay<\/strong> produced reboot of the <em><strong>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/strong><\/em> film franchise dubbed <em><strong>NINJA TURTLES<\/strong><\/em> has now cast all 4 lead Turtles.<\/p>\n<p>The Upcoming film will be Directed by <strong>Jonathan Liebesman<\/strong> (<em><strong>Wrath Of the Titans<\/strong><\/em>) and produced by <strong>Michael Bay<\/strong> (<em><strong>Transformers<\/strong><\/em>&#8230; and if you really\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0know who this guy is\u00a0I wont\u00a0bother). Recently it was revealed that <strong>Megan Fox<\/strong> would be playing the role of News Reporter <strong>April O&#8217;Neil<\/strong>, but now it looks like the film is picking up its pace with the addition of the turles being cast.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7817\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/alan-ritchson-premiere-steam-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7817 \" alt=\"alan-ritchson-premiere-steam-01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/alan-ritchson-premiere-steam-01-150x150.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Ritchson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Raphael<\/strong> was cast first late last week, with the role is going to <strong>Alan Ritchson<\/strong> (<strong>Aquaman<\/strong> from <strong><em>Smallville, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire<\/em><\/strong>). Now we have <strong>Pete Ploszek<\/strong> (<strong><em>Parks And Recreation, Shameless<\/em><\/strong>) playing <strong>Leonardo<\/strong>, <strong>Jeremy Howard<\/strong> (<strong><em>Galaxy Quest<\/em><\/strong>) as <strong>Donatello<\/strong>, and Noel Fisher (<strong><em>Battle: Los Angeles<\/em><\/strong>) is playing the youngest turtle <strong>Michaelangelo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Studio also notes that they hope to cast the role for <strong>The Shredder<\/strong> very soon as to being production.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike previous<em><strong> Teenage Mutant\u00a0Ninja Turtle<\/strong><\/em> films, this one is going to be shot with motion capture technology, like which was used very successfully in <em><strong>Rise of the Planet of the Apes<\/strong><\/em>, so before anyone freaks out and starts saying &#8220;How dare this actors play the roles of my beloved turtles! They aren&#8217;t tall enough, look the part, etc&#8230; yada yada&#8221; you have to realize that they will primarily be providing voices and facial motion capture work with presumed actual martial artists doing the physical body work for the <strong>CGI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7818\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Noel-Fisher-AES-050807.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7818\" alt=\"Noel Fisher-AES-050807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Noel-Fisher-AES-050807-300x148.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Ploszek, Jeremy Howard, and Noel Fisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0Ninja Turtles<\/strong><\/em> is\u00a0scheduled\u00a0to release in the USA on <strong>June 6th 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes you heard me right, it was revealed via Deadline that the highly\u00a0controversial\u00a0Michael Bay produced reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film franchise dubbed NINJA TURTLES has now cast all 4 lead Turtles. The Upcoming film will be Directed by Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath Of the Titans) and produced by Michael Bay (Transformers&#8230; and if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics-videogames","category-film-tv"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NINJA TURTLE Film Reboot now has all 4 Turtles Cast - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=7814\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NINJA TURTLE Film Reboot now has all 4 Turtles Cast - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yes you heard me right, it was revealed via Deadline that the highly\u00a0controversial\u00a0Michael Bay produced reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film franchise dubbed NINJA TURTLES has now cast all 4 lead Turtles. 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