The Energon Pub

So there are lots of stories popping up every week about the record breaking amounts of money Transformers has brought in. What I don't think I have seen is how much the voice actors got paid for this film. Their roles were somewhat limited, but did they finally throw Peter Cullen, et. al., more than a bone?

As most things go, probably not that much...

that's ashame I think Peter Cullen was the greatest prime ever everyone else failed to do Prime's voice. For the other actors however espicially for the decepticions had one or two lines in the whole movie

OptitronPrime wrote:that's ashame I think Peter Cullen was the greatest prime ever everyone else failed to do Prime's voice. For the other actors however espicially for the decepticions had one or two lines in the whole movie

Yeah, but Hugo Weaving is a big ticket star now. They must have compensated him pretty well to get him to take the part.

xxaMaxx wrote:

OptitronPrime wrote:that's ashame I think Peter Cullen was the greatest prime ever everyone else failed to do Prime's voice. For the other actors however espicially for the decepticions had one or two lines in the whole movie

Yeah, but Hugo Weaving is a big ticket star now. They must have compensated him pretty well to get him to take the part.

At least Cullen gets the satisfaction of knowing we all wanted him in the movie.

Optimus Prime was given a new paint job and a real working energy axe since the one in the movie was a prop.

Bumblebee was given a new Bee-otch car air freshner.

Jazz got a new visor, and a freestyling mat for his freestyle jams with the other Transformers

Ratchet was given a tool set of Craftsmen tools and a spare tire.

Ironhide was given a walker, crossword puzzles and a tv to watch gameshows. (old people love those usually)

Megatron was given some polish and alka selzter for the heart burn he recieved at the end of the movie.

Starscream was finally able to get his own army as he was given a giant bag of army men.

Blackout recieved a new paint job and some snocones

Skoponok was given a role on a upcoming National Geograpic documentry: When robots attack.

Barricade got a small raise and unlimited supply of donuts.

Frenzy could not be found so he recieved no pay.

Bonecrusher was given a cute lil dolly for him to huggle and stuff. Him hating everything was part of his character. =P

Brawl disappeared after the movie so he got nothing.

Ok I dunno why I made this post but ya..

Kanyon wrote:\
Jazz got a new visor, and a freestyling mat for his freestyle jams with the other Transformers

Ok I dunno why I made this post but ya..

somehow, i doubt that....

Cyber-Kun wrote:As most things go, probably not that much...

Oh I wouldn't be so sure about that.

Don LaFontane does movie trailer and commercial voice overs and he can sometimes make two mill a pop.

Peter Cullen does the same work and more, I'm sure he could easily have made two mill out of this. Plus they have to sign him on for the sequels. That's some money right there.

Of course he won't make nearly as much as the stars, but it's better than we'd imagine.

at least a couple of million.

Moonbase2 wrote:

xxaMaxx wrote:

OptitronPrime wrote:that's ashame I think Peter Cullen was the greatest prime ever everyone else failed to do Prime's voice. For the other actors however espicially for the decepticions had one or two lines in the whole movie

Yeah, but Hugo Weaving is a big ticket star now. They must have compensated him pretty well to get him to take the part.

At least Cullen gets the satisfaction of knowing we all wanted him in the movie.

I'd pay Cullen 10 times the salary of Weaving. It was Prime's voice that carried the whole show.