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There was an early TMNT script draft that leaked online last year and it has re-envisioned the Shredder character as 'Colonel Schrader', the military leader of an army that is nicknamed "The Foot" (as a reference to the Oroku Saki Shredder's ninja minions).
SHREDDER TMNT MOVIE
I feel like this Michael Bay-produced movie is just gonna really be something else. There is a whole interesting dynamic that happens in the world of Turtles and all I can really say about it at this point while working on it is that the Turtle film, it's not like anything that I remember about the Turtles before. "But Turtles is coming together very, very cool. He became more vague, after that initial outburst of information:
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And then he goes through a few stages in his existence." "I actually play a guy named Eric Sachs in the movie. Screen Rant's Amy Nicholson was interviewing Fichtner about Disney's The Lone Ranger - where he plays a (literally) blood-thirsty version of the Ranger's foe Butch Cavendish - when she asked him about whether he had started to get down his look as The Shredder in the TMNT reboot. Shredder's real identity is Oroku Saki, a Japanese martial artist who dresses in samurai-like armor covered with metallic blades and a mask/helmet). The actor being hired is the latest piece of evidence that this film's version of the character will be a rather significant departure from tradition (i.e. It was Fichtner who ended up shining a light on the situation, by confirming that he will play Shredder in the TMNT movie reboot.
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However, that news was accompanied by conflicting rumors about which character he will portray: The Shredder - who is far and away the most iconic adversary that has fought the Heroes-in-a-Half-Shell - or the mad scientist Dr. Acclaimed character actor William Fichtner was reported to have joined the cast for the live-action Teenage Mutants Ninja Turtlemovie reboot two months ago.