For all its faults, the most recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film TMNT was notable for being CG, and therefore having Turtles unburdened by the need to wear heavy prosthetics anda shell while high-kicking and karate-chopping. But judging by a casting call to martial artists that's just gone out, a film for the characters' 25th anniversary will be live-action once more - at least partly.
At the time of TMNT, both studio and filmmakers raved about the way that CG allowed them to try bigger and better stunts and make the Turtles move in a more convincing way. Now, a casting call has gone out for members of the evil Foot Clan, so they at least will be real people under their masks. Whether the Turtles will also be real, motion-captured or entirely animated remains to be seen.
The next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film is due out in 2011. Cowabunga, dudes!