It is known however that during 20 that Hamato had written more than 100 Songs, unknown if more than twenty of those had contributed to the album or they were used from the album sessions. Though not much is known about the sessions between March and August of 2005, it was believed that Hamato had planned to have anywhere from 20-28 tracks on the album to show off each character musically and the background from the storyline. Though Kevin had agreed to the idea, he'd stated that he would have to get the greenlight with both Imagi and WB Pictures at the time, it would later be two weeks later that Hamato would get the greenlight into doing so and even be able to create the soundtrack which had begun March 2005. Viper had also stated that he could go about making a soundtrack towards the film or at least pitch in a song or instrumental song for his character.
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It would be around Late January to Early February where Hamato would receive the script and begin heavy interest into the movie at the time, calling Kevin and pitching various ideas to the director about how to go about the character, which was more darker than the later film. Though Hamato at the time had carried no interest into acting at the time due to his more heavier focus in on music, Hamato was contacted by Director Kevin Munroe who had worked on various animation films before to play a character using Hamato's native New York accent, it was unknown to Hamato at the time that the film would later be TMNT, however, he'd taken interest into the idea of voice acting and agreed to the idea.
In Early 2005 after the immense success of Burning Flag and the singles that followed, Hamato wanted to move away from the Pop/R&B scene and either go towards more heavy R&B albums, or experiment with his sound, moving into various genres like Jazz, Country, Rock and Dance Music. Hamato stated in an interview that the company holding the film Imagi Studios (who are now defunct) have the voice lines and original film plot for the film before it was drastically overhauled. And was only included with voice lines for the Video Game (see TMNT Game). Hamato had also been planned to play the character Raphael due to his heavy New York accent, however, Sony pulled Hamato out of the film role. Sony had also planned to be involved within the marketing of the soundtrack, however, financial investors didn't agree with the way the direction at the time and wanted a more R&B oriented album after the Pop/R&B Mix of Burning Flag and not one that was rock. Although planned to be released in March of 2007, plans had changed six months beforehand to have not one artist do a single soundtrack but multiple bands under the Warner Bros. TMNT OST was scheduled to be the first soundtrack album and planned fourth studio album by American Recording Artist Viper Hamato to the 2007 Animated Film TMNT. This would later become the official released version, with no sign of Hamato on it