Evebird sent me this link and it probably is legit.
See. Some of you thought it would be important to have Cullen or Welker voice the characters.
Not one bit.
That could be Cullen or possibly any of 100 other actors there.
Sure. It isn't much more than one line.
But the digital processing was always going to be there so the actual true voice didn't matter.
Hell... it could even be Gary Chaulk or Neil Kaplan there and it wouldn't matter! The voice would basically be the same.
The only think that is important... and I mean really important here... is that Blackout not suck!
He's too cool looking to suck.
I'm getting less and less enthused about the movie by the day, but I can sit through 90 minutes of dreck for a hot rack. That's what I did with Into the Blue and Fantastic 4.
To tell the truth, last year I was kind of hoping Gary Chalk would get the gig as Optimus.
i really hope the new tv spot isn't real, or at least still in cgi processing.
i mean prime's lips are a little ... strange.
I've had a bad taste in my mouth from the moment Don Murphy announced the project, and I've seen little to dissuade me otherwise.
I've tried to temper the matter with a sense of optimism, but this movie continues to give credence to my theory - this will be one kickass action movie, but it's somehow lost that bizarro-world magic that made awful 80s animation and inarticulate plastic bricks so appealing.
Alas, I'll probably still see it in the theater. There's the extent of my plastic crack self-loathing right there. :)
Also, Optimus Prime's face looks stupid.
It'll be fine. You'll lose yourself in it for a few hours.
That's what I'm thinking. I'm sad that a franchise with at least some potential for serious story-telling and unearthly drama is getting the shaft; but in return, we do appear to be getting a rocking mechanical version of 300.
Having said that, I have to wonder if the silver screen just isn't up to conveying the sort of epic quality of comics in general. It's like Fantastic Four; did they even have a chance to make the movie the story deserved? Baaaaaaaah... Hollywood. Damn them. :)