Now that Paramount and Platinum Dunes has set Megan Fox as the female lead in the Jonathan Liebesman-directed live-action/CGI feature Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Now yhey have turned to casting the turtles they are working on the turtles. First to be cast: Alan Ritchson, who’ll play Raphael. He’ll be coming off playing Gloss, the deadly dagger-wielding male tribute from District One in the upcoming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
The original movie series put its actors in bulky turtle suits, but this one will use performance capture like Avatar did.
The TMNT reboot is dated for a May 16, 2014 release after it was pushed back to cut the budget to around $125M.
