This doesnt meet the excitement of the Transformers Movie for me, but its still pretty damned sweet. I am actually looking forward to this movie. The original trailer had me all goosebumpy and giddy until the last 10 seconds, but still it looks good. Hopefully it wont be TOO aimed at the kiddies. We now have news of some of the voice actors signed on.
Sarah Michelle Gellar (The Grudge, and TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has signed on as the voice of April, the human researcher who serves as the Turtles’ tech-services worker and mother figure. Fantastic Four’s Chris Evans is the hockey-stick-swinging Casey Jones, and Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith also voices a cameo as a greasy-spoon chef.
Now this is groovy cool. It might be the first thing with Sarah Michelle Gellar involved that I have liked SINCE Buffy, and I can hear the hothead attitude that Evans can bring to Casey Jones. Kevin Smith having a cameo is just awesome too.
Patrick Stewart is being reported as the head of the new opposition in this movie, which means no Shredder. Zhang Ziyi(Memoirs of a Geisha) voices the villain Karai, who leads an evil army known as the Foot Ninjas. Karai was the leader of the Japan Foot Ninjas in many incarnations of the Turtles Movies. After Shredder’s defeat she comes to New York and takes over the Foot Clans. Also, I havent heard any news of a Splinter.
The article continues to say that the Turtles themselves will have no famous voices to them. So maybe Corey Feldman IS involved.
