Johnny Knoxville And Tony Shalhoub Joined The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Voice Cast A Few Months Before Its August 2014 Release The script also saw April O’Neil and Casey Jones portrayed as high school sweethearts from small town America. What’s worse was there was no trace of Master Splinter. The Ninja Turtles, for the most part, have found their arch-enemy in Shredder, but this early version of the script did away with the masked baddie who travels the Technodrome in favor of a character named Colonel Schrader.
But this was not the only major change to Ninja Turtles lore that was presented in this early script. According to TMNT, NOT TANT, the script was later removed after Paramount sent a cease and desist notice. One version of the screenplay, which was posted by the blog TMNT, NOT TANT saw everyone’s favorite heroes in a half-shell not as genetically modified reptiles but instead as members of an alien race of turtles.
When Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was released on August 8, 2014, moviegoers saw the names Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, and Evan Daugherty on the finished product, but these weren’t the first set of writers tasked with penning the script nor was the movie the original version of the story that was to be told. One Leaked Early Draft Saw The Ninja Turtles As Aliens Who Fought ‘Colonel Schrader’ And Not Shredder
