space
head
head head head
Home Contact RSS Feed
COMICS   •   MOVIES   •   MUSIC   •   TELEVISION   •   GAMES   •   BOOKS
Michael Bay’s ‘Ninja Turtles’ Finds Its Master Splinter
space
The Movie God   |  @   |  

Ninja Turtles Splinter Image

Another important character has been cast for Ninja Turtles, the new take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles being made by producer Michael Bay‘s Platinum Dunes.

First came April O’Neil, the reporter who befriends the turtles, who will be played by Megan Fox. Next came the casting of Raphael and then Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo.

Now comes word that actor Danny Woodburn has been cast in the movie, where he will play the group’s mentor and father figure, Master Splinter.

You may not recognize Mr. Woodburn by name, but it’s very, very likely that you know who he is. The actor is small in stature, but has had memorable performances in Mirror Mirror, Watchmen, Death To Smoochy, and as Kramer’s friend Mickey on Seinfeld, just to name a few.

Splinter, just like the turtle characters, will not be a live-action character. Instead, they’ll be created using performance capture technologies, similarly to the Na’vi in James Cameron’s Avatar and Andy Serkis’s work as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, King Kong, and Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and its upcoming sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

That leaves only one more big character to cast: the villain Shredder. Unless of course they also have people like Casey Jones joining the party. That remains to be seen.

[Source: Deadline]

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment

space
Topics: Movies, News
space
Previous Article
space
Next Article
«
»
space
space
space
Amazon.com
space
You may have noticed that we're now AD FREE! Please support Geeks of Doom by using the Amazon Affiliate link above. All of our proceeds from the program go toward maintaining this site.
space
Geeks of Doom on Twitter Geeks of Doom on Facebook Geeks of Doom on Instagram Follow Geeks of Doom on Tumblr Geeks of Doom on YouTube Geeks of Doom Email Digest Geeks of Doom RSS Feed
space
space
space
space
The Drill Down Podcast TARDISblend Podcast Westworld Podcast
2023  ·   2022  ·   2021  ·   2020  ·   2019  ·   2018  ·   2017  ·   2016  ·   2015  ·   2014  ·  
2013  ·   2012  ·   2011  ·   2010  ·   2009  ·   2008  ·   2007  ·   2006  ·   2005
space
Geeks of Doom is proudly powered by WordPress.

Students of the Unusual™ comic cover used with permission of 3BoysProductions
The Mercuri Bros.™ comic cover used with permission of Prodigal Son Press

Geeks of Doom is designed and maintained by our geeky webmaster
All original content copyright ©2005-2023 Geeks of Doom
All external content copyright of its respective owner, except where noted
space
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under
a Creative Commons License.
space
About | Privacy Policy | Contact
space