Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF
Monday, April 27th, 2009 6:09PM CDT
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It has been a constant source of rumour, speculation, misinformation and here-say for months, but it would appear that one of the more talked about voice acting roles for Revenge of the Fallen has been cast.
Robert Orci has finally confirmed on the Ugo Movie Blog that Frank Welker will be reprising one of his more well-known roles from the G1 Cartoon Soundwave.
Jordan Hoffman: Who's voicing Soundwave in Transformers?
Roberto Orci: Welker.
Jordan Hoffman: That's official?
Roberto Orci: I think so.
Jordan Hoffman: Uh oh.
Roberto Orci: Might be something I just told you for the first time, but I think so.
Jordan Hoffman: Good to know.
So what are your thoughts on this casting confirmation fellow Seibertronians? Leave your thoughts and feedback below!
Robert Orci has finally confirmed on the Ugo Movie Blog that Frank Welker will be reprising one of his more well-known roles from the G1 Cartoon Soundwave.
Jordan Hoffman: Who's voicing Soundwave in Transformers?
Roberto Orci: Welker.
Jordan Hoffman: That's official?
Roberto Orci: I think so.
Jordan Hoffman: Uh oh.
Roberto Orci: Might be something I just told you for the first time, but I think so.
Jordan Hoffman: Good to know.
So what are your thoughts on this casting confirmation fellow Seibertronians? Leave your thoughts and feedback below!
Credit(s): movieblog.ugo.com
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Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915171)
Posted by dabattousai on April 27th, 2009 @ 6:30pm CDT
Posted by dabattousai on April 27th, 2009 @ 6:30pm CDT
Sondwave: Revage Eject! Operation: Reprising quote and role!
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915173)
Posted by soundwave13c on April 27th, 2009 @ 6:33pm CDT
Posted by soundwave13c on April 27th, 2009 @ 6:33pm CDT
two words: Epic Win!!! 
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915183)
Posted by zero-kaiser on April 27th, 2009 @ 6:58pm CDT
Posted by zero-kaiser on April 27th, 2009 @ 6:58pm CDT
..hear that? its the sound of the earth shaking as fans planet wide rejoice in unison 
I only have three things to say about this...
yes.. yes!.. YES!!
I can not wait to hear Welker in action!!
I only have three things to say about this...
yes.. yes!.. YES!!
I can not wait to hear Welker in action!!
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915186)
Posted by capellamusic on April 27th, 2009 @ 7:02pm CDT
Posted by capellamusic on April 27th, 2009 @ 7:02pm CDT
OMG, this just made my day! 
Excelent news! I can't wait to hear Soundwave/Welker! Ravage, eject! Operation: Autobots destruction! And I hope he also does Ravage as well 
. Frank finally has one of his characters voiced by him and his deserved place in the movie series with one of his best characters! And it also feels really special to see his name in the movie cast in imdb, I've checked for that so many times before and now it's there!
Excelent news! I can't wait to hear Soundwave/Welker! Ravage, eject! Operation: Autobots destruction! And I hope he also does Ravage as well . Frank finally has one of his characters voiced by him and his deserved place in the movie series with one of his best characters! And it also feels really special to see his name in the movie cast in imdb, I've checked for that so many times before and now it's there!
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915189)
Posted by Agent 007 on April 27th, 2009 @ 7:14pm CDT
Posted by Agent 007 on April 27th, 2009 @ 7:14pm CDT
YES!!!!! 
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915200)
Posted by Solrac333 on April 27th, 2009 @ 8:12pm CDT
Posted by Solrac333 on April 27th, 2009 @ 8:12pm CDT
SWEEEEEET!!!! Cullen as Prime in the first one gave me chills. Welker as Soundwave will be AWESOME!!!!!!!!
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915212)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on April 27th, 2009 @ 11:43pm CDT
Posted by Megatron Wolf on April 27th, 2009 @ 11:43pm CDT
YES!!! Wait now i have to see this crappy movie. God damn it. Well at least i have some thing to look forward to now. Least theres one part of the movie that wont suck. Well that and the pretty ILM effects. Hope they bring back the G1 voice effect as well. So you think he'll do Ravage too?
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915255)
Posted by Ravage XK on April 28th, 2009 @ 2:58am CDT
Posted by Ravage XK on April 28th, 2009 @ 2:58am CDT
Excellent.
Right, next I want Cullen and Welker back in the cartoons. I can't believe people haven't been calling for this already.
Right, next I want Cullen and Welker back in the cartoons. I can't believe people haven't been calling for this already.
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915265)
Posted by Covenant on April 28th, 2009 @ 7:11am CDT
Posted by Covenant on April 28th, 2009 @ 7:11am CDT
Fuggin' A. Something done epicly right.
Of course, its one of those items where the choice is clear, just glad they finally got another tally mark in that particular box.
LOL
Ramen to that.
Likely. Wait, nope, nothing likely with this movie stuff. He should, I'll say then.
Of course, its one of those items where the choice is clear, just glad they finally got another tally mark in that particular box.
Megatron_Wolf wrote:YES!!! Wait now i have to see this crappy movie. God damn it.
LOL
Ravage XK wrote:Right, next I want Cullen and Welker back in the cartoons. I can't believe people haven't been calling for this already.
Ramen to that.
Megatron_Wolf wrote:So you think he'll do Ravage too?
Likely. Wait, nope, nothing likely with this movie stuff. He should, I'll say then.
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915272)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on April 28th, 2009 @ 7:43am CDT
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on April 28th, 2009 @ 7:43am CDT
Um, why is everyone happy? Don't the Decepticons in the movie speak that Cybertronian lingo? We're not going to hear Welker do any of his famous lines, well we will, but we won't be able to understand them. Also who says they're going to use a Vocoder like they did back in the day. Without that SW's voice is just like Dr. Claw's. That's not bad either though.
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915280)
Posted by Hard Hacker on April 28th, 2009 @ 8:23am CDT
Posted by Hard Hacker on April 28th, 2009 @ 8:23am CDT
Here's the rejoicing part.
The complaining part will follow after how much different Soundwave will look from his G1 counterpart (Ignoring, of course, the 3 other Soundwaves that exist in the mythos). Probably with dumb flames or something.
The complaining part will follow after how much different Soundwave will look from his G1 counterpart (Ignoring, of course, the 3 other Soundwaves that exist in the mythos). Probably with dumb flames or something.
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915293)
Posted by Ravage XK on April 28th, 2009 @ 9:03am CDT
So long as he says "Ravage eject" I dont think I care.
Posted by Ravage XK on April 28th, 2009 @ 9:03am CDT
Hard Hacker wrote:
The complaining part will follow after how much different Soundwave will look from his G1 counterpart (Ignoring, of course, the 3 other Soundwaves that exist in the mythos). Probably with dumb flames or something.
So long as he says "Ravage eject" I dont think I care.
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915334)
Posted by syphonn on April 28th, 2009 @ 11:13am CDT
Posted by syphonn on April 28th, 2009 @ 11:13am CDT
Sure hope they don't cheese him with a line like "My bad"
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915355)
Posted by Ravage XK on April 28th, 2009 @ 12:14pm CDT
Dear god, no!!!
I HATE that they had Prime say that. Why would he say that? Its a stupid thing to say in any situation. It makes you look dumb as hell. It doesn't even make sense!
Posted by Ravage XK on April 28th, 2009 @ 12:14pm CDT
syphonn wrote:Sure hope they don't cheese him with a line like "My bad"
Dear god, no!!!
I HATE that they had Prime say that. Why would he say that? Its a stupid thing to say in any situation. It makes you look dumb as hell. It doesn't even make sense!
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (915396)
Posted by Mechabreaker on April 28th, 2009 @ 2:25pm CDT
Posted by Mechabreaker on April 28th, 2009 @ 2:25pm CDT
BEST. NEWS. EVER!!!!!!!!
Now, I wonder if they will use the vocoder for Soundwave's voice! That would be the ultimate fanwank!
Now, I wonder if they will use the vocoder for Soundwave's voice! That would be the ultimate fanwank!
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (916022)
Posted by Giant Purple Griffin on April 30th, 2009 @ 6:35am CDT
While definitely a dumb quote, it's actually pretty par for the course. Prime has said and done various stupid things in the past in the original cartoons too. Here's a couple prime examples that come to mind immediately:
(while Optimus plays basketball with Spike).
Optimus Prime: "Am I drooling correctly?"
Spike: "The word is 'dribbling', Optimus!"
--"The Master Builders" (G1 Season 2, Episode 16).
Optimus Prime: "Amazing, a booby trap that actually captures boobies."
--"Prime Target" (G1 Season 2, Episode 35).
Posted by Giant Purple Griffin on April 30th, 2009 @ 6:35am CDT
syphonn wrote:Sure hope they don't cheese him with a line like "My bad"
While definitely a dumb quote, it's actually pretty par for the course. Prime has said and done various stupid things in the past in the original cartoons too. Here's a couple prime examples that come to mind immediately:
(while Optimus plays basketball with Spike).
Optimus Prime: "Am I drooling correctly?"
Spike: "The word is 'dribbling', Optimus!"
--"The Master Builders" (G1 Season 2, Episode 16).
Optimus Prime: "Amazing, a booby trap that actually captures boobies."
--"Prime Target" (G1 Season 2, Episode 35).
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (916056)
Posted by Steamed_Ham on April 30th, 2009 @ 9:33am CDT
Posted by Steamed_Ham on April 30th, 2009 @ 9:33am CDT
If they wanted to fit in more product placement they could make Soundwave the Xbox 360 and Ravage a disc.
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (916058)
Posted by irishking44 on April 30th, 2009 @ 9:41am CDT
Posted by irishking44 on April 30th, 2009 @ 9:41am CDT
Giant Purple Griffin wrote:syphonn wrote:Sure hope they don't cheese him with a line like "My bad"
While definitely a dumb quote, it's actually pretty par for the course. Prime has said and done various stupid things in the past in the original cartoons too. Here's a couple prime examples that come to mind immediately:
(while Optimus plays basketball with Spike).
Optimus Prime: "Am I drooling correctly?"
Spike: "The word is 'dribbling', Optimus!"
--"The Master Builders" (G1 Season 2, Episode 16).
Optimus Prime: "Amazing, a booby trap that actually captures boobies."
--"Prime Target" (G1 Season 2, Episode 35).
Yeah some of you hardcore guys should really get over it and considering they basically learned english form myspace and facebook i'm sure that seemed like the appropriate response to him
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (916114)
Posted by syphonn on April 30th, 2009 @ 12:15pm CDT
Just seems out of character for Soundwave, if they were to do such a thing
Posted by syphonn on April 30th, 2009 @ 12:15pm CDT
Giant Purple Griffin wrote:syphonn wrote:Sure hope they don't cheese him with a line like "My bad"
While definitely a dumb quote, it's actually pretty par for the course. Prime has said and done various stupid things in the past in the original cartoons too. Here's a couple prime examples that come to mind immediately:
(while Optimus plays basketball with Spike).
Optimus Prime: "Am I drooling correctly?"
Spike: "The word is 'dribbling', Optimus!"
--"The Master Builders" (G1 Season 2, Episode 16).
Optimus Prime: "Amazing, a booby trap that actually captures boobies."
--"Prime Target" (G1 Season 2, Episode 35).
Just seems out of character for Soundwave, if they were to do such a thing
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (916848)
Posted by Friend of Da Panda Symbol on May 2nd, 2009 @ 10:01am CDT
The "my bad" thing cemented Oppy's mentioning the Autobots learned about earthlings from the "world wide web". Btw I liked the way that was said too.
If Bay has some sense (and he does; he listened to fans who they wanted to v/a Prime) he won't have soundwave saying something akin to "my bad". Besides the character being cruel and emotionless, 1st Bay kept emphasizing the decepticons as "they bad" at the expense of their characters.
Hope he listens casting Soundwave's v/a. I just can't see anyone else but Welker in the role.
Posted by Friend of Da Panda Symbol on May 2nd, 2009 @ 10:01am CDT
Giant Purple Griffin wrote:syphonn wrote:Sure hope they don't cheese him with a line like "My bad"
While definitely a dumb quote, it's actually pretty par for the course. Prime has said and done various stupid things in the past in the original cartoons too. Here's a couple prime examples that come to mind immediately:
(while Optimus plays basketball with Spike).
Optimus Prime: "Am I drooling correctly?"
Spike: "The word is 'dribbling', Optimus!"
--"The Master Builders" (G1 Season 2, Episode 16).
Optimus Prime: "Amazing, a booby trap that actually captures boobies."
--"Prime Target" (G1 Season 2, Episode 35).
The "my bad" thing cemented Oppy's mentioning the Autobots learned about earthlings from the "world wide web". Btw I liked the way that was said too.
If Bay has some sense (and he does; he listened to fans who they wanted to v/a Prime) he won't have soundwave saying something akin to "my bad". Besides the character being cruel and emotionless, 1st Bay kept emphasizing the decepticons as "they bad" at the expense of their characters.
Hope he listens casting Soundwave's v/a. I just can't see anyone else but Welker in the role.
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (916870)
Posted by syphonn on May 2nd, 2009 @ 11:05am CDT
Maybe this time around they will communicate via tweets
Posted by syphonn on May 2nd, 2009 @ 11:05am CDT
Friend of Da Panda Symbol wrote:Giant Purple Griffin wrote:syphonn wrote:Sure hope they don't cheese him with a line like "My bad"
While definitely a dumb quote, it's actually pretty par for the course. Prime has said and done various stupid things in the past in the original cartoons too. Here's a couple prime examples that come to mind immediately:
(while Optimus plays basketball with Spike).
Optimus Prime: "Am I drooling correctly?"
Spike: "The word is 'dribbling', Optimus!"
--"The Master Builders" (G1 Season 2, Episode 16).
Optimus Prime: "Amazing, a booby trap that actually captures boobies."
--"Prime Target" (G1 Season 2, Episode 35).
The "my bad" thing cemented Oppy's mentioning the Autobots learned about earthlings from the "world wide web". Btw I liked the way that was said too.
If Bay has some sense (and he does; he listened to fans who they wanted to v/a Prime) he won't have soundwave saying something akin to "my bad". Besides the character being cruel and emotionless, 1st Bay kept emphasizing the decepticons as "they bad" at the expense of their characters.
Hope he listens casting Soundwave's v/a. I just can't see anyone else but Welker in the role.
Maybe this time around they will communicate via tweets
Re: Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in ROTF (929513)
Posted by Coolyfett on May 31st, 2009 @ 9:31am CDT
I have seen a few pics of the toy. He is a Satellite and a Jet, he seems to be a triple changer. Makes sense since Ravage is a rocket missle. His head looks like Soundwave, there is also a lot of chrome solar panels on him.
Posted by Coolyfett on May 31st, 2009 @ 9:31am CDT
energonjunkie wrote:anyone else a bit concerned(anxious) about sounwave in the movie,how come we havent seen any cg models of him or any footage(even a glimpse).i hope he's in the film for more than 5 minutes
I have seen a few pics of the toy. He is a Satellite and a Jet, he seems to be a triple changer. Makes sense since Ravage is a rocket missle. His head looks like Soundwave, there is also a lot of chrome solar panels on him.
