Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 is getting a new Shredder
The producers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, the inevitable sequel to Michael Bay’s reboot of the often-popular comic book franchise, have found a new actor to climb into the big CGI Predator costume and menace a bunch of stunt performers covered in ping-pong balls. Brian Tee has been cast in the upcoming film as The Shredder, leader of the sinister and/or radical Foot Clan, and the Turtles’ most famous and pointy antagonist. By taking on the role, Tee will be following in the footsteps of such turtle-soup-loving luminaries as James Saito, the late James Avery, and Tohoru Masamune, who’s apparently been replaced after playing the character in the 2014 film. That’s a shame, in so far as Masamune once gave an interview in which he proved his Turtles sewer cred by name-dropping not only the Triceratons, but also Honeycutt the Fugitoid, which is the kind of dedication to craft rarely seen in portrayers of malignant, walking Cuisinarts.