Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fan Cast and Ideas

 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fan Cast and Ideas.

We all love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and grew up with Leo, Mikey, Ralph, and Donnie. We've gotten so many shows and movies made about them. Seth Rogen is making an animated film about them, and there was an animated Rise of the Ninja Turtles film on Netflix. 

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This movie looks weird but could be interesting?

My cousin is a huge fan of Ninja Turtles. 

We have not gotten a good live-action film except for the 1990 film, which is a classic today. 

This film is fun to watch, and I prefer this over the Michael Bay crap...

This film series was terrible, and I hear the actors who played the Turtles had a horrible time making the film. 

Don't believe me, look up Alan Ritchson's interview about making the movie.

Ninja Turtles needs a good film adaptation that can be funny and dark. It needs to be Batman Begins mixed with Deadpool and Cobra Kai. 

You need a good director and good writers to make this film. If I were to pick a director for this film, I would go with James Gunn, and for writers, I would go with the Cobra Kai writers Jon Hurwitz Josh Heald, and Hayden Schlossberg.

James Gunn is a great director. I think he could make a good Ninja Turtles film. 

These three writers have also given us one of the best tv shows that are story-driven and character-driven. 

So here is my fan cast and ideas for a live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.

K.J. Apa as Leo

Leonardo is the leader of the team. In the film, Leo is the mature older brother trying to be a leader to his brothers. We see him struggling to be a leader as he and Ralph have a lot of fights, Donnie and he gets along fine, and Mikey wants him to grow up. Leo was chosen as leader by Master Splinter because he saw his eldest had the potential to be a leader. Leo's primary weapons are his two katanas, wearing his iconic blue mask. Leo would lead his brothers against Baxter Stockman and his robots. Leo somewhat serves as the POV of this film. Also, Leo is the older brother who doesn't give up and is always there for his brothers, even if they have arguments.

Tanner Buchanan as Raph 

Raphael is the group's tough guy and is often a bit of a loner. He's tough and cool, but he's got a good heart and cares about his family. Raph and Leo have a lot of fights and arguments, but he will always has his brother's back. He wasn't big on Leo being chosen but respected Splinter's choice. He gets along with Mikey even though Mikey gets into a lot of fights, and he often beat him in a fight. Raph and Donnie have their ups and downs with each other. Raph's story is he learns family will always have his back and that he is a ninja who must put his brothers first over himself.  Raph wears his red mask and says. 

Marcus Scribner as Mikey 

Michelangelo is the party animal and funny brother of the group. He's often childish, and he loves to a passion. Mikey loves the surface world the moment he sees it but wants to be accepted even though they are told by Splinter to stay in the shadows. Mikey gets along with Leo and respects him as team leader, Mikey often pulls pranks on Raph, resulting in Raph beating Mikey, and Donnie he gets along with him despite Mikey messing around in his lab.

Despite Mikey's childish behavior, he does some growing up but still maintains the fun side we all love him for. In a way, Mikey is the movie's heart and wears his orange mask and nunchucks.  


Gianni DeCenzo as Donatello 

Donnie is the group's brains and a genius inventor of the team. Donnie will build the turtle truck. Ralph and he don't exactly get along most of the time, especially with helping build the Turtles Lair, the turtle truck, and even creating a WIFI for them to connect to the upper world.  Donnie gets along with Leo because they are both mature. Ralph and he don't exactly get along most of the time, especially with video games, and Mikey gets along with him but gets annoyed when he disrupts his inventions. Donnie does feel like all he has is staff and his brothers have better weapons, but Master Splinter tells him that the team is the wise man's weapon. Donnie does update his staff, including having a hidden blade in it. Donnie will be the smartest mutant alive, and he and April are both computer tech buddies. 

Daniel Henney as Master Splinter 

 

Master Splinter would be in the film; this time, his origin is Hamato Yoshi. Before he was mutated into a rat, he lived in Japan and was married to Tang Shen until Shredder killed her out of anger, for he loved her too, but she chose Yoshi. Yoshi was devasted over losing her and their daughter. He went to New York City to start a new life but was still lost until he bought four turtles at a pet store. However, he would learn about the Foot Clan and Stockgen working together. He attempted to stop them but was exposed to an Ooze chemical. He fled into the sewers with the four turtles and turned into a rat. After seeing that Ooze had changed the turtles, he decided to train to be ninjas and to be a father to them as he lost his daughter to Shredder. He names all four of them after great renaissance artists. Splinter is your typical wise and loving but strict father, and he wants his sons to be protected from the outside world but to protect the city. Splinter advises them to stay in the shadows as ninjas of the night. 

Sophia Skeleton as April O'Neil

This version of April used to work as a computer programmer and assistant to Baxter Stockman. April knew Baxter for years as her father worked for him until her father retired after having a stroke. 

April helped Baxter build a new invention called the mouser robots for Baxter but would learn he was working with Shredder and was planning on mouser robots to steal from banks and take over New York. When she tries to expose Baxter's plans, Baxter sends his robots after her, and she hides in the sewers. Baxter's robots almost kill her, but she is saved by the Turtles. She is terrified when she first meets the Ninja Turtles but sees they are not monsters. April becomes friends with the turtles and tells them about what Baxter is doing, and Splinter tells her about the Foot Clan and Baxter's relationship with them. She would learn her father knew about Baxter, but he protected her and her mother from Baxter. For feared what Baxter would do to them. 

April would help them stop Shredder and Baxter. April's friend Irma would be in the film as her best friend, and she would develop a romance with Casey Jones.


Joe Kerry as Casey Jones 

Casey Jones would be in the film like his comic book origin. He first meets Raph and sees that Casey has a lot of anger in him. Casey was set to start college on a hockey scholarship, but sadly his mom died of cancer, and his father became an alcoholic, taking his frustrations out on him. In his anger, Casey puts on a hockey mask and stops some criminals from attacking innocent people. Casey almost comes close to killing someone, but Raph stops him and tells him he needs to be better and that he can't let his anger blind him much as it did with him. Casey and April would meet in the film. At first, the two don't hit off, but Casey does flirt with her, but she turns him down. The two of them would develop a romance in future films and get married in the third film. 

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Baxter Stockman

Baxter would be the film's villain, and I know it feels weird not having Shredder, but I want to build up Shredder and save him for the next movie. Baxter Stockman is a famous scientist and owner of the company Stockgen. Baxter's goal in the film is to use the Ooze to mutate people and animals into weapons and to build robots to take over New York. Baxter is secretly working with the Foot Clan and is working with Shredder. Baxter would put on a robot suit and do a battle against the turtles. At the film's end, Baxter is defeated, his cruel experiments are exposed, and he is sent to prison. Baxter appears in a mid-credit scene where he gets a visit from Shredder, who tells him he's coming with him to help the Foot Clan destroy the Ninja Turtles. 

Lana Condor as Irma Langinstein 

Irma is April's best friend and a news reporter. She and April live in an apartment, and she later finds out her best friend is working with mutant ninja turtles. She's excited to report it. However, April tells her not to and that she rather not lose her best friend. Irma is funny and a nerd, and an honest reporter. 

Ioan Gruffudd as John O'Neil 

John O'Neil is a former scientist and chief assistant at Stockgen but had to retire after a stroke. He knew about what Baxter was doing but didn't say anything to protect his family. April and her dad were very close. At one point, she was going to give up her studies to help her dad, but he told her not to. He wanted her to pursue her career in science, and he planned to own a farm.   

Alyson Hannigan as Elizabeth O'Neil 

Elizabeth O'Neil is April's mother and wife to John. She was a journalist for the press but is now retired. She and her husband plan to move to a farm to escape the city, as it is their dream retirement home.

Brian Tee as Oroku Saki/Shredder 

Shredder would appear at the end of the film setting up as the villain in the next movie. What I want to do with Shredder is build him up as the turtles' next big foe. Shredder appears in the end credit scene where Baxter is in a particular prison, and then Shredder breaks in, kills all the guards, and opens Baxter's cell. Tells him, "We have more work to do." I went with Brian Tee again because I felt Out of Shadows did him dirty, and in this film, I would give him a better role in the next movie. Shredder will be like Heath Ledger's Joker to the Ninja Turtles. He would have a future fight with Splinter and the Turtles. We would see him in a flashback when Splinter tells his origin story about how he was Yoshi and Saki was once his friend until Yoshi married Tang. Saki was in love with her, but she chose Yoshi over him. Shredder then attacked their home and killed Tang and their child. In the film, Shredder has half his face burned from his fight with Yoshi.   
 

Now that's my cast, and here are my ideas for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 

10. The film needs to take influence from the comics and the 2003 and 2012 shows.

If I were to make this show, I would look at IDW comics for inspiration and use the 2003 and 2012 shows for influence. The IDW comics are for inspiration for going dark and more serious, the same turtles' personality from the 2003 show and the same comedy and Splinter's back story from the 2012 show. 

I would use those three source materials to help adapt the series. 

9. This first film won't have Shredder as the villain, but in the next movie, he will be.

Shredder is the arch-enemy of the Teenage Mutants Ninja Turtles, but I decided not to make him the villain in the first film. I wanted to set him up as the next big bad in the next movie, like how Chris Nolan did that with Joker. Shredder appears in flashbacks when Splinter tells his life story, and he is mentioned at the end; he reveals himself, and the second film has him as the full main villain. Shredder will be a total badass and the most dangerous foe the Turtles will fight. Well, we will get to know him more in the next film. He also has a daughter named Karai, who will be in the next movie. There will be a twist. Splinter and Shredder will also have a massive fight in the next film. 

8. The film focus more on Leo, Don, Raph, and Mikey and no humans.

Unlike Bay's films, his movie is more from the Turtles' point of view because we need to focus on the turtles' point of view. The film series is about brotherhood and brothers working out their differences. This film is about the Turtles, not April, because April is an important character, but she's not going from the point of view. In each movie, each character will be a point of view. The first film is from Raph's POV, the second film is from Leo's POV, the third is from Donnie's POV, and the last movie is from Mikey's POV>

7. Having Baxter Stockman as the villain in the first film works, for it helps build up Shredder and the Foot Clan.

Baxter seems like a weird first villain for the turtles to fight, but this character sets up Shredder and the Foot Clan. Baxter is your typical mad scientist and businessman who wants to use his inventions not to help people but to take over the world. The Ninja Turtles have to stop him because his robots will be used to take over New York, and he's secretly helping Shredder.  

6. The film needs to learn from the mistakes of the Michael's Bay films. 

Micael Bay's films were terrible because they wasted so many ideas with this film series. I mean, the writing was awful, the characters were wasted like Shredder, the film focused too much on the humans like April, and the turtles did look bad like they looked like Shrek. 

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This is a fan drawing of Ninja Turtles in live-action, and this is way better than Michael Bay's Turtles design.

We need something that could be as epic as the MCU films.

5. The film would have three follow-up movies and possibly build a cinematic universe with different characters from the series. 

If I were to make future films, I would have four films in total, seeing how we have four ninja turtles. The first film is original, the second film has the Ninja Turtles going up against Shredder and the Foot Clan, the third film is the Krang Invasion, and the final movie is Last Ronin. This is how I would plan out this series. If I were to expand on the universe spin-offs, I would do a spin-off about other characters like a Shredder spin-off, Miyamoto Usagi spin-off, Bebop and Rocksteady, Casey and April, and Mighty Mutanimals spin-off.

4. The first film focus on the Turtles' Origins and the Turtles learning about the surface world.

The first film will be an origin story. It will focus on the Ninja Turtles learning about the surface world, meeting April O'Neil and Casey Jones, the first humans who accept them, and the turtles facing off against Baxter Stockman and his robots. This film is a proper origin story, and at the beginning of the film, Splinter gives all four of them red masks but decides to change three to blue, purple, and orange so as not to cause confusion. 

3. The next film will have them face off against Shredder and the Foot Clan

The next film will be darker, and we will have Shredder as the main villain. He aims to kill Hamato Yoshi and his sons Leo, Raph, Don, and Mikey. The film also has Casey and April fighting alongside the turtles, facing off against Bebop, Rocksteady, and Old Hob. Also, Leatherhead would be in the film, who starts out as an enemy and becomes an ally to the turtles against Shredder. Karai is in the movie too, and she is Shredder's daughter and second, but it turns out she's actually Yoshi's daughter, and it's about them saving her from Shredder and stopping him once and for all. 

 

2. The third film is The Krang Invasion

Krang would be the villain in the next film based on the Krang Invasion. Krang's mission is to rebuild the Utrom empire after his planet was destroyed by Dimension X. He would unleash hell on the Turtles, and all of their allies face off against Krang, which is revealed Krang has been planning this invasion for a thousand years. This film would have the Tricertons who want to stop Krang for he destroyed their home planet and they would be enemies with the turtles except for one named Traximus, who joins them to stop Krang without killing innocents, unlike his fellow Tricertons. Casey and April would also get married at the end of the film.

1. The Last Ronin would be the last film, and it's the right way to end the series.

Now The Last Ronin is one of the best Ninja Turtles stories yet, and it's story-driven and character, something most comics don't do unless you count indie comics because those comics sell more than Marvel and DC comics for being more story driven. The Last Ronin is the proper storyline to end the film series. It focuses on an older Mikey who has lost his brothers and his father, and now he must save New York from Shredder's grandson with the help of an older April O'Neil and her daughter Casey Marie Jones. This film would have a much more serious feel and a bitter-sweet ending like Logan's film. 

So that's my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fan Cast and Ideas.

Let me know what you think?

Do you think we will ever get a good live-action film someday?

I hope so, just as long as Bay is not involved.