Casey Jones

May 13, 2016

Stephen Amell Talks About Becoming Casey Jones

One of the biggest, and most fan requested, additions to the sequel of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the vigilante known simply as Casey Jones. And he’ll be played in the movie by fan-favorite actor Stephen Amell, who got his biggest fame playing Oliver Queen on Arrow. In an interview with IGN, Amell talked about the character in the movie, including his unlikely path to vigilante hero: “He is involved in an incident as a corrections officer and thinks he does the best that he can, and because [of] that [there] was a lot of resistance and quite possibly a little bit of snickering from his boss and with the police department. So as a result of this, he starts looking for ulterior methods.” He went on later to talk about his relationship with the Turtles: “His relationship with the Turtles at the beginning of the movie is, he’s totally frightened by them. Or, no, I wouldn’t say frightened actually, I’d say much more taken aback. I mean, we live

July 14, 2015

Stephen Amell Talks Casey Jones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2

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While Comic-Con was huge for Arrow, including Stephen Amell kicking off the Arrow panel by cutting a wrestling promo in his new Green Arrow costume, there’s more than one role he is playing. Mainly, being Casey Jones in the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. Amell chatted with IGN and told them that this Casey Jones isn’t what fans may remember him as. “It’s certainly not your father’s or your younger self’s Casey Jones, but that’s because we meet him at a very different time in his development,” Amell said. He continued: “He is not the Casey Jones that a lot of comic fans have come to know and love. He is a guy with a job that lives in New York and loves hockey. When things go awry, [and] when he goes through the normal methods of what someone would do when they’re [a] law-abiding citizen and he’s met with laughter and scorn… he decides to take things into his own hands.” In addtion, he’s more than willing to incorporate his

May 2, 2015

First Look At Stephen Amell Being Casey Jones in TMNT 2

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Whether you loved it, hated it, or simply ignored its existence, he sequel to Michael Bay’s (I understand if you stop reading right here) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film is coming. In fact, it’s already filming. While some of the things many people hated are still going to be in the film (over-sized, near indestructible turtles, Megan Fox, overuse of CGI, Megan Fox again), there may be some good things on the horizon. First off, TMNT fan-favorite villains Bebop and Rocksteady will be in the film, hopefully done in a way very true to their comic origins (unlike Shredder). Second, and probably most importantly, we have Casey Jones! The hockey masked vigilante will be played by the Arrow himself, Stephen Amell. Though the movie has only started filming, Michael Bay has revealed a pic of Amell as the epic vigilante, and fans will be relieved that two of Casey Jones’ most iconic items are with the character: his hockey mask and his hockey stick. Though the plot of the second Teenage Mutant Ninja