The Ninja Turtles creators considered enshrining Bernini, even though he wasn’t a Renaissance artist, so clearly time isn’t entirely of the essence here. Portrait of Donatello Rischgitz / Getty Imagesīut if some see Donatello as the weakest Turtle link, perhaps he could be replaced with a more diverse choice.
Just as Splinter is essential to the comic characters, the Renaissance artists weren’t born in a vacuum.Ī room at the National Gallery with several Raphael canvases credits that painter, along with Leonardo and Michelangelo, with having “perfected the art of the High Renaissance.” At a press preview of the Raphael show, I asked organizer Jonathan Bober, senior curator of prints and drawings, which four artists he’d pick if he’d been consulted on the Ninja Turtles. The National Gallery recently finished an exhibition of Verrocchio, who taught Leonardo, and the Frick Collection recently held an exhibit of Donatello’s student and Michelangelo’s teacher Bertoldo di Giovanni. And lest art lovers think that the namesakes of the “Cowabunga”-uttering mutant turtles were self-taught geniuses, recent shows in Washington and New York have centered on the artists’ instructors.
The Getty is holding an exhibit on “ Mind of the Master” through June 7. Michaelangelo, meanwhile, is getting a deep treatment of his drawings in Los Angeles. Eric Vandeville / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, exhibited at the Louvre in Paris. After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman (Tyler Perry) and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (WWE Superstar Stephen “Sheamus” Farrelly), to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael return to theaters this summer to battle bigger, badder villains, alongsideApril O’Neil (Megan Fox), Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett), and a newcomer: the hockey-masked vigilante Casey Jones (Stephen Amell). TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS which hits theaters June 3, 2016! Order your copy of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Blu-Ray by Clicking HERE In the sequel however, that role went to Brian Tee instead.īut at least the job for Splinter is still split between the mo-cap by Danny Woodburn and the voicework by Tony Shalhoub. In the first movie, actor Tohoru Masamune played Shredder. Knoxville’s sucha good sport, bless his heart. But I wish them all the luck in the world.” “I have no idea! I’m like why am I not doing the voiceover for this? I don’t know what happened. So when I interviewed Knoxville for “Elvis & Nixon,” I asked him why that is, but even Knoxville himself didn’t understand why he wasn’t asked to come back. This time, it’s all Pete Ploszek who did both the mo-cap and the voice work for Leonardo. In one of my favorite 2014 movies, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” actor Johnny Knoxville was the one who voiced the character Leonardo, but the motion performance was done by actor Pete Ploszek.īut in this year’s sequel, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS (damn, that’s a mouthful of a title) Knoxville’s name is not on the list, he didn’t return.