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Peter Cullen Chosen to Voice Optimus Prime (Again)
bigdady92 writes "Yesterday at Comic-Con it was announced that the new voice for Transformers the Movie was to be Peter Cullen who will voice Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots. Peter Cullen was the voice of the original Optimus Prime. The lending of his voice to the cast in a quick 'intro' at Comic-con was greeted by unanimous cheer from the crowd. Many fans, internet boards, blogs were calling for the return of Cullen to voice his most famous and well-loved character Optimus Prime."
uly 22, 2006 - During Paramount's presentation on Friday at Comic-Con International in San Diego, the studio made an official announcement regarding their live-action feature film version of Transformers.
While the announcement, which was preceded by a taped greeting from director Michael Bay, wasn't as momentous as the much expected first look at the giant robots in action, it was almost as eagerely anticipated by the fans.
A vocal "greeting" by Optimus Prime himself announced that voice actor Peter Cullen, who played the character in the popular 1980s cartoon TV series, will voice Optimus Prime in nest summer's big -budget movie version.
The announcement was met with rousing applause from Comic-Con attendees. The fans have long desired that Cullen reprise the role he'd made famous on TV.
Haven't they already made a CGI trailer, showing a giant robot on Mars? It doesn't show very much (you can't identify which TF it is), but it's still CGI.
I loved the Transformers, but I can't really get excited about the voice actors (even if they could resurrect Orson Welles...). They need to get Simon Furman involved.
On that note, my parents are fairly open-minded folks, and when my little-brother was 3, he really, really wanted a doll and a stroller. Now, my parents basically looked at eachother and said 'Well, why not? We're not ones to let cultural prejudices get in front of our kids happyness'. We have never, ever laughed so much as when he got it though. He threw out the doll and promptly ran out into the street to play racing cars with it. He crashed fairly often though, and the poor stroller really wasn't built for his abuse. He had to get a new one after a month or so :)
"" How about taking the safety labels off everything, and let the stupidity-problem solve itself? """
Yeh, but you only see a sillouete for like 0.5 seconds before the camera cuts out. For all you know that could be something a CGI threw together without any real source materia.
In Japan, he was actually known as Convoy.
This poo is cold.
Optimus Prime? Bah! Peter Cullen will always be KARR to me. (Even though he wasn't in KARR's second appearance. :p) "I have checked my data on basic human desires. Therefore, I understand your needs. You wish to eat. You wish to drink. You wish to reproduce. Which one first?"
You must think in Russian.
I think a billion little kids--not to mention most of their parents--would take issue with calling Optimus Prime his "most famous and well-loved character." Peter Cullen has voiced Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh for decades.
Boom Shanka
If you feel the need to use a 2-bit word for "three", ANY of the following would be preferable: