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Crush Of The Day: Catching Fire’s Alan Ritchson Gets Shirtless For Daman

December 21, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Pictures of Alan Ritchson with his shirt off certainly aren’t a first – after all, he used to be an underwear model – but we’re certainly not objecting to some new ones, courtesy of Daman.

Ritchson’s acting career got a major boost recently with a role in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Previously he was best known as Smallville’s Aquaman. He’s also got a big movie coming out next year, but we won’t see much of him, as he’ll be hidden behind the reptilian facade of Raphael in the new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

For Daman he’s looking very stylish and fit, and personally we think his next role should be one where his character is allergic to clothing. Click on the pics below for larger versions. [Read more…]

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Hunger Games: Catching Fire Stud Alan Ritchson Suggests Underwear Modelling Past Helped With The Film

November 20, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

hunger-games-quarter-quell-poster11 The makers of The Hunger Games have obviously realised that filling the films with hot guys doesn’t hurt. For Catching Fire Josh Hutcherson and Luke Hemsworth are joined by the likes of Sam Claflin, Jack Quaid, and Alan Ritchson.

As many noted when Smallville actor Ritchson was cast, the extremely buff 28-year-old used to do underwear modelling, and it appears that helped ensure he wasn’t as self-conscious in some scenes as others were.

He tells E! News, “For me, I’d walk out in a thong thinking, ‘I’m in costume.’ It’s like, ‘Hey, I’m ready for the death scene,’ and they’d be like, ‘Uh, we can see part of your crotch.'”

However he did have some qualms about the skintight costumes they had to wear into the arena, due to all the food he’d been eating, “It was awful. You know what it’s like going home and wanting to eat some good soul food in Atlanta and having to squeeze my greasy, fried-chicken self into that thing every morning? It was terrible. It was a pretty nuts costume.

“Everybody’s in it though so you don’t feel too bad. But everybody was like, ‘Do I look fat in this?'”

One problem did arise with what the guys were wearing under their skintight costumes. “We walked out there in boxer-briefs,” Ritchson says, “but they were like, ‘You can see everything underneath that. You need to put on this thong, dance-belt kind of thing.'”

Eventually the guys ended up in cycling shorts. We’ll be able to see whether that successfully hid everything now that Catching Fire is due in cinemas.

And if you’re wondering about Ritchson’s underwear modelling past, get an eyeful below (click for a proper view). [Read more…]

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Pete Ploszek, Jeremy Howard and Noel Fisher To Play Ninja Turtles

March 26, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

turtles-cast With shooting set to start next month, director Jonathan Liebesman is busy casting his Ninja Turtles. A couple of days ago it was revealed Alan Ritchson (Aquaman on Smallville) will play Raphael, and now he’s got his Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Donatello, with Pete Ploszek, Jeremy Howard and Noel Fisher taking the roles, according to Deadline.

Pete Ploszek only has two credits to his name with bit parts on Showtime’s Shameless and NBC’s Parks and Recreation, so this is a bit of a step up for him, even if audiences won’t get to see him, as the Turtles will be rendered using motion capture CGI. He’s playing Leonardo, the blue masked katana expert of the group. He is the oldest turtle, and considered the leader.

Jeremy Howard will Donatello, the scientist and smartest of the turtles, who wears a purple mask and is a master of the bo staff. Howard played Sketchy on Breaking Bad and has a lot of one-off TV credits to his name.

Noel Fisher is probably the most recognisable of the bunch, popping up in various TV shows, including a recurring role Shameless, a major role in Hatfields & McCoys, and a supporting part in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. He’ll be Michelangelo, the orange-masked master of the nunchaku. He is the most free-spirited of the turtles, and serves as the comic relief.

The only human character cast so far is Megan Fox, who it’s assumed will be playing TV reporter April O’Neil.

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Ninja Turtles Gets Its Raphael, In The Form Of Hottie Alan Ritchson

March 23, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

alan-ritchson2 With a June 2014 release date set, Platinum Dunes and Paramount Pictures really need to start moving on their new, live-action version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They’ve already cast Megan Fox, presumably as April O’Neil, and now they’ve found the first of the turtles, with Alan Ritchson set to play the sai-wielding Raphael, according to Deadline.

Unlike the 1990 original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the actors portraying the title characters will use state-of-the-art performance capture technology similar to Avatar, instead of wearing bulky turtle suits.

Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans, Battle: Los Angeles) is directing from a screenplay by Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Matt Holloway, and Art Marcum. There’s no info been released on the plot.

Alan Ritchson plays the District 1 tribute Gloss in this fall’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. He also played Aquaman on The CW’s Smallville and Thad Castle on Blue Mountain State, and was the facial model for Ray Winstone’s lead character in the motion-capture Beowulf (so he has some experience with mo-cap technology).

It does seem a shame that Ritchson’s body is going to be covered in loads of CGI, as shown by the image below.

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