The first of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been cast in Jonathan Liebesman's Ninja Turtles.  According to Deadline, Alan Ritchson (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) will be picking up a pair of digital sai to do the motion capture performance for Raphael.  For those unfamiliar with TMNT, Raphael is usually the wise-cracking rebel of the group, which tends to bring him into direct conflict with the group's by-the-book leader, Leonardo.  Last month, Megan Fox was cast as reporter April O'Neil.Despite dropping "Teenage" and "Mutant" from the title, Liebesman and producer Michael Bay have said that this reboot will build off the original comic books by Kevin Eastman.  Fans raised on the animated series were a bit miffed when Bay announced that the characters would be created by aliens rather than radioactive "ooze".  However, Eastman says the movie will have "Raid: Redemption-style fight scenes" and "epic Rise of the Planet of the Apes sort of effects," so perhaps that will make some of the changes easier to accept.  Ninja Turtles is due out June 6, 2014.