Character actor Willaim Fichtner is the latest person to join the cast of the Michael Bay-produced reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The report doesn't reveal whom he'll be playing in the film, but it does say that he'll be "playing a lead with iconic stature in the Turtles’ mythology." This leads me to believe that he'll be playing the main villain Shredder. I'm not really sure who else it could be. I'll be surprised if he isn't Shredder. There's always Casey Jones, but he doesn't seem like the Casey Jones type.
You should recognize Fichtner from shows such as Prison Break, Entourage, The Dark Knight, Invasion, and a ton of other projects. He'll next be seen playing Butch Cavendish in Disney’s The Lone Ranger, and he also has a role in the Neil Blomkamp-directed Elysium.
Fichtner joins the previously cast Alan Ritchson (Raphael), Pete Ploszek (Leonardo), Jeremy Howard (Donatello), and Noel Fisher (Michelangelo), Will Arnett as Vernon Fenwick, Danny Woodburn as Master Splinter, and Megan Fox as April O'Neil. The movie comes out in theaters on June 6th, 2014.
Do you think Fichtner will end up playing Shredder? If not, who else could you see him playing?