WonderCon: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows’ Panel

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TMNT fans, rejoice! Big news oozed out of today’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows panel at WonderCon 2016. For starters, Fred Armisen was announced as the voice of the villainous Krang — the giant alien brain from Dimension X. In addition, it was revealed that the Turtles would be visiting Brazil in the film — taking them out of their comfortable environment of New York City.

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Megan Fox as April O’Neil.

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Stephen Amell as Casey Jones.

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Producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is the sequel to the 2014 hit film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The film is based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman and is directed by David Green (Earth to Echo). Michael Bay (the Transformers franchise) returns to produce alongside his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), with Galen Walker and Scott Mednick (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) also producing.

Also returning for the sequel is Megan Fox (Transformers) as April O’Neil, Will Arnett (Arrested Development) as Vernon Fenwick and the Turtles: Alan Ritchson as Raphael, Noel Fisher as Michelangelo, Pete Ploszek at Leonardo, and Jeremy Howard as Donatello. Rounding out the cast is Stephen Amell (Arrow) as Casey Jones, Tyler Perry (Gone Girl, the Madea franchise) as Baxter Stockman, Academy Award nominated actress Laura Linney (The Big C, Love Actually) as Chief Rebecca Vincent, Brian Tee (Jurassic World) as Shredder, WWE World Heavy Weight Champion Stephen “Sheamus” Farrelly as Rocksteady and Gary Anthony Williams (The Internship) as Bebop.

Check out all our WonderCon coverage here.

Eric Moro
Eric Moro is the VP of Content at Fandom. His career as a writer/editor has led to stints at IGN, Now Playing, and Cinescape to name a few, as well as unit publicity work on cult favorite film Napoleon Dynamite. Play “Six Degrees of Eric Moro” and you can connect him to Sharknado in just one turn.