Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[kristen]

To get the right design for the sets, production designer Roy Forge Smith and art director Gary Wissner went to New York City four months prior to filming and took still photographs of rooftops and other various locations.

[javier]

The four Turtles are named after artists of the Italian Renaissance: Donatello Bardi (1386-1466), Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), and Raffaelo Santi (1483-1520). The names of Michaelangelo and Raphael as Turtles have been Anglicized.

[ray]

This is the only Ninja Turtles movie where the Shredder displays any martial arts capabilities.

[duane]

One of the writers, Bobby Herbeck, wrote Casey Jones to have a cricket bat after attending a Cricket game with director Steve Barron. The cricket bat was not in the original Raphael #1 comic.

[chris]

Shredder and the Foot Clan's hideout were filmed in an abandoned cement factory called the Ideal Cement Factory outside of Wilmington, North Carolina in Castle Hayne. This location was also used as the set for Dinohatton in Super Mario Bros. (1993) and Top Dollar's nightclub in The Crow (1994).

[gabriel]

The original opening of the film contained the turtles giant shells mysteriously emerging from the river at night, before engaging on a long, complicated tracking shot trough the city, budget constraints caused this to be replaced by the scenes of the Foot gang committing acts of theft during daylight. The shells emerging from water shot did make it briefly into the trailer. Similarly, the scene in which the turtles attack the teens mugging April with the light being knocked out was a result of the production not having the time to choreograph another fight sequence.

[chad]

The plot is heavily inspired by stories from Kevin Eastman-Peter Laird's original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" comics: 'The Turtles Origin is Told' (the origin of the turtles is told by Master Splinter and the team fight and defeat The Shredder)'Me, Myself and I' (Raphael encounters Casey Jones for the first time)'What Goes Around Comes Around' (the Foot Clan critically wounds a Turtle)'Silent Partner' (a fight in April's home between the Foot and the Turtles and Casey)'True Stories' (the Turtles hide out at April's farm to convalescence)and 'Return to New York' (the Turtles finally confront the Foot and the Shredder).

[oscar]

In the film, April is a reporter for Channel 3. In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) cartoon, she was a reporter for Channel 6.

[jim]

In the movie Michelangelo hates anchovies on a pizza, but he likes them in the cartoon.

[aaron]

Originally, Steve Barron wished to replicate April O'Neil's jumpsuit look from the early Mirage comics and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) cartoon. The look was going to more closely resemble the cartoon with a yellow colored jumpsuit and a big head of red hair (as opposed to a green jumpsuit and brown hair). However, Judith Hoag found the jumpsuit "horrifying" and the idea was nixed. The yellow raincoat April wears in the beginning of the movie is an homage to the yellow jumpsuit she wears in the 1987 cartoon.

[wesley]

For the flashback of the turtles growing up, Steve Barron was going for a retro look and decided these scenes would be shot on Super 8 film. Because these scenes used real turtles as well as a mini puppet young Splinter and young Turtles, they were time consuming scenes and were given to the second unit under second unit director Brian Henson.

[beth]

In this film. Raphael was given a quick-tempered, foul-mouthed personality that would often conflict with Leonardo. It was later used in other adaptations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics. In the original animated series he was given the personality of "Cool but rude"

[fred]

Benny Urquidez & Richard Norton were considered for the role of Casey Jones & were also considered to do fight choreography for the movie as well.

[leo]

The Turtles themselves were created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London. Jim Henson said that the creatures were the most advanced that he had ever worked with. The creatures were first made out of fiberglass, and then remolded out of clay. They were produced as molds to cast the whole body in foam rubber latex. The work at the Shop was completed within 18 weeks.