Decepticlone Soundwave wrote:I'm dying to know who's voicing Shockwave. David Warner or bust.
I second David Warner for Shockwave. Why? Three reasons:
1. Corey Burton, the actor who voiced both G1 Shockwave and Animated Shockwave, has
stated that he will not and cannot voice Shockwave in the upcoming DOTM movie:
I wish them nothing but the very best for the wildly successful franchise; and have practically no interest in that kind of mega-budget movie enterprise involvement. I'm much too busy as it is, and thoroughly rewarded already many times over for the work I've done under the Transformers brand.
2. Burton's Shockwave voice had been an impression of Warner's own voice. Burton had based his Shockwave voice off of that of Warner's Sark character from the first
Tron movie, and years later, Burton would go on to be the voice of Sark in the
Kingdom Hearts video games. So, it's almost as though David Warner had (spiritually) been the true voice of Shockwave all along.
3. Corey Burton himself has heard word that Warner is being considered for the role of DOTM Shockwave, and he fully supports this:
It is rumored that David Warner himself has been under consideration for the next live-action/CGI movie production, as Shockwave - which I feel is entirely appropriate, given Mr. Bay's propensity for casting Screen Personalities over multi-voiced off-camera "cartoon" character voice actors - and Mr. Warner's outstanding history of consistently vivid and "savory" character performances (a much under-appreciated and impressively versatile master craftsman in the fine art of Acting, across the entire spectrum of audio/visual performance media).
If the voice of Shockwave
himself believes this man to be the ideal choice, I see no other option to consider here.
