Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen

Friday, April 6th, 2007 10:43AM CDT

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GameSpot.com has posted two interesting interviews with fan-favorite voice actors Peter Cullen and Frank Welker. It was unveiled last night that Frank Welker would reprise his role as Megatron in Activision's upcoming "Transformers: The Game" which is based off this summer's blockbuster Transformers Movie.

Q&A: Shooting the breeze with Megatron (Interview with Frank Welker) - GameSpot chats with Frank Welker, the voice of Megatron in the original animated series and upcoming Transformers game and movie.

Q&A: Truckin' with Optimus Prime (Interview with Peter Cullen) - Voice actor Peter Cullen talks about the origins of the legendary Autobot's voice, the upcoming Transformers games and movie, and his work as Eeyore.

Frank Welker and Peter Cullen together again!

Frank Welker and Peter Cullen together again!

Credit(s): Todd V.

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Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (76237)
Posted by Flint on April 6th, 2007 @ 11:27am CDT

Good Interviews. I can't wait to hear Welker vs Cullen in the Game. It also gets me wondering who Welker will play in the movie.

Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (76253)
Posted by Hanch Prime on April 6th, 2007 @ 11:46am CDT

that sux they never gave the guys thier fan mail. When ever I heard cullen do anythig else my brother and I were always like: Hay Its Optimus Prime! I am really glad they cast him in the movie, it will help out alot I think to hear optimus' voice coming out of optimus. Hopefully Hugo doesnt mess it up for me. Its hard to imagine megatron having a different voice.

Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (76272)
Posted by osiricon on April 6th, 2007 @ 11:53am CDT

Man that was cool! The only thing that would make it better is if it was an audio file. I would of loved to hear them go in to character. Good Interviews.

Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (76284)
Posted by Seibertron on April 6th, 2007 @ 12:02pm CDT

osiricon wrote:Man that was cool! The only thing that would make it better is if it was an audio file. I would of loved to hear them go in to character. Good Interviews.

There's an audio clip in yesterday's news post about this when it was first announced that Welker would be Megatron in the game. Here's the link to the news article:

http://www.seibertron.com/news/view.php?id=9919

Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (76378)
Posted by cheeser82 on April 6th, 2007 @ 2:03pm CDT

You know I never knew Peter Cullen did the voice of Eeyore. I know someone that's a big fan of eeyore. XD

Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (76476)
Posted by Sideshow Sideswipe on April 6th, 2007 @ 4:02pm CDT

Eeyoremus Prime

Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (76653)
Posted by Liege Evilmus on April 6th, 2007 @ 7:58pm CDT

What was that song from The Muppets,?,

"...together again..."

Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (77751)
Posted by Elita One on April 8th, 2007 @ 12:59am CDT

What a nice early birthday present for me (it's 9th April FYI). Im very happy to see that Frank will be Megatron, even if it's only for the videogame. I will buy the game if only out of respect for Frank and Peter. See I respect my elders

Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (77790)
Posted by Autobot032 on April 8th, 2007 @ 1:20am CDT

You know, it really gets ya, when you see that the two guys behind your favorite characters and heroes are just as incredible as the voices they created. The persona's they gave life to.

They really do appreciate us, and they give us 100% of their effort, and they don't have to.

They do it because they actually wants to...

It's really cool to see the people behind the heroes live up to the hype...and then some.

Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (78665)
Posted by roguecds on April 9th, 2007 @ 1:40am CDT

If Keith David is gonna be Barricade, then Frank will probably do Frenzy like on the old show, and most likely Scorkpinok, and or two or three guys. On the series he did like 6 characters? He can crazy things w/ his voice. Something tells me one or more Deceps won't get that many lines, so he'll do more than TF likely. He did Megs, (Rumble/Frenzy/Megs/Soundwave/Wheelie and others)...they also can put their VA's in mixers to sound different as we know, man, wouldn't that be cool> to have the Welker soundbox voice in the movie!!!

Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (78703)
Posted by Kenny28 on April 9th, 2007 @ 3:22am CDT

Y'know, it's good to know that Frank was able to get involved in some manner. I wouldn't have minded him being in the actual movie, but I never thought he really had a "live-action"-sounding voice that could work...now being in the video game? That's not bad at all.....

Re: Interviews with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen (80343)
Posted by Spooner on April 10th, 2007 @ 5:54pm CDT

Who wants to put odds on us being led astray here? Maybe Welker is doing Megatron's voice in the movie, and what better way to keep it a secret than to lie about it?

It just seems odd that Bay would go with Cullen and not Welker - I can't see where either of their voices have "aged" dramatically, and I sure can't see what Hugo Weaving could possibly bring to the role; he can play evil, but not supervillian evil (face it - Megs had all the attributes of a supervillian in the original series - he didn't act like a military leader until the '86 movie). I guess we'll just have to wait and see.