The characters that will be featured in the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie just seem to get more colorful and interesting, and now new set photos have revealed that Shredder's fan-favorite henchman Rocksteady will be played by none other than WWE's very own Sheamus.
Sheamus, whose real name is Stephen Farrelly was seen on the set with Bebop (to be played by Gary Anthony Williams). Bebop had on a purple mohawk and wore a brown vest with spikes, while Sheamus' Rocksteady had on a brown mop of hair with matching black leather vest with spikes. Both men, before they are transformed into a humanoid warthog and rhino also had on outlandish accessories.
Other villains caught on the set were Brian Tee as Shredder and his daughter Karai, played by Brittany Ishibashi. They are currently shooting the movie in New York, and the sequel with the working title "Half-Shell" will be directed by David Green and produced by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form.
It also stars Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Stephen Amell, Tyler Perry, and Laura Linney, and will hit cinemas on June 3, 2016.
The original film was released on August 8, 2014, and despite its box office success, it received generally negative reviews. It grossed over $485 million worldwide, which made it Nickelodeon Movies' highest grossing film, so naturally, a sequel was a done deal.
On the flipside though, the scathing reviews it received was a bit of a downer. It was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards (often referred to as the "Razzies," the awards ceremony recognizes the worst in the film industry) during its 35th edition.
It was nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, and Worst Supporting Actress. The only thing it "won" was Worst Supporting Actress for Megan Fox, who played the turtles' reporter friend April O'Neil.
In the popular movie website Rotten Tomatoes, the film also received overwhelmingly low marks. It was only given a 21 percent approval rating based on 131 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2 out of 10.
The site's critical consensus read: "Neither entertaining enough to recommend nor remarkably awful, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles may bear the distinction of being the dullest movie ever made about talking bipedal reptiles."
Kyle Smith of the New York Post, meanwhile, deemed the movie awkward and give it four stars. He said that the "comedy-action mash-up is as weird as if the Dark Knight took a break from belting the Joker to plug Pizza Hut and bang out a hiphop beat on his nunchucks."
