The TMNT presentation began with the screening of a featurettte that included interviews with Eastman and Laird, talking about the process of having imagined the Turtles, before it concluded with a montage that ran through the many different iterations of the property over the decades, including the 2014 movie (and the "Shell Shocked" song written for the film). Eastman was there for the film's show in Hall H, along with director Jonathan Liebesman and other members of the cast and crew (no producer Michael Bay, though), where new footage was shown. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.Paramount has been going all-out on promoting its upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - a reboot of the live-action movie franchise based on the property created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird - and thus, the movie had a notable presence at the studio's panel for the 2014 Comic-Con in San Diego.
After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman (Tyler Perry) and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (WWE Superstar Stephen “Sheamus” Farrelly), to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael return to theaters this summer to battle bigger, badder villains, alongsideApril O’Neil (Megan Fox), Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett), and a newcomer: the hockey-masked vigilante Casey Jones (Stephen Amell). TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS which hits theaters June 3, 2016! Order your copy of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Blu-Ray by Clicking HERE In the sequel however, that role went to Brian Tee instead.īut at least the job for Splinter is still split between the mo-cap by Danny Woodburn and the voicework by Tony Shalhoub. In the first movie, actor Tohoru Masamune played Shredder. Knoxville’s sucha good sport, bless his heart. But I wish them all the luck in the world.” “I have no idea! I’m like why am I not doing the voiceover for this? I don’t know what happened. So when I interviewed Knoxville for “Elvis & Nixon,” I asked him why that is, but even Knoxville himself didn’t understand why he wasn’t asked to come back.
This time, it’s all Pete Ploszek who did both the mo-cap and the voice work for Leonardo. In one of my favorite 2014 movies, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” actor Johnny Knoxville was the one who voiced the character Leonardo, but the motion performance was done by actor Pete Ploszek.īut in this year’s sequel, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (damn, that’s a mouthful of a title) Knoxville’s name is not on the list, he didn’t return.