Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2239501-20160604060948/@comment-995426-20160605033249

Well, the 2007 film certainly had its weaknesses. All the turtle CGI models looked like DuckTales rejects. Way too toony&mdash;not that I didn't expect some tooniness considering the rest of that film's visual style. I've heard the comic version that Mirage Studios made was actually much better than the film, and the film was intended to be more like that, but...Hollywood studio executives happened, or something like that.

And yes, I think Eric Sacks was originally intended to be the Shredder, and his name was actually an alteration of Oroku Saki (E r i c   Sack s = O r o k u  Sak i). I don't know why they ended up making him a separate character&mdash;maybe to avoid accusations of character whitewashing (casting characters with Caucasian actors even when it makes no sense to do so, because Hollywood producers and financers consider Caucasians more acceptable to movie-goers&mdash;yeah, it's totally racist) or something like that.