Live action Transformers humans cast revealed

[ShadowGUN]

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/702/702518p1.html


I got a bad feeling about this. They are adding too many humans to this movie and yet the VA for the Transformers haven't been revealed yet.

[Undrave]

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/702/702518p1.html


I got a bad feeling about this. They are adding too many humans to this movie and yet the VA for the Transformers haven't been revealed yet.

Maybe because they'll use actual professional voice actors for the Transformers instead of 'star voices' like they do in most animated movies now? So they just push the starpower onto the humans?

Plus I don't think many of those characters will be THAT important, like Bernie Mac's character... maybe they'll be in many scenes, but won't get as much exposition... sorta like the gate technician in Stargate SG-1, he's there often but we know nothing about him XD.

Hopefully it won't be all about the humans.

[langden alger]

yeah already looks bad to me when they're talking about 'the unlikley young hero and his love interest.' that plus bernie mac as a slippery car salesman and the hot young code cracking goverment agent...:yawn:

i'd feel alot better if they were talking about what i think of when i go back to my good ol' transformers memories-optimus kicking megatron's metal a**, the backstabbing starscream, cybertron....the lil annoying brother from even stevens is the least of my concerns for this flick. as long as we don't start getting reports of hilary duff as the sassy young waitress we still kinda safe.

[Undrave]

yeah already looks bad to me when they're talking about 'the unlikley young hero and his love interest.'

Bad romantic subplots are a staple of Hollywood fare -- it can't be escaped. Sadly.

[Moto Pete]

Norman Alden (http://imdb.com/name/nm0017491/).... Kranix/Arblus (voice)Jack Angel (http://imdb.com/name/nm0029460/).... Astrotrain (voice)Michael Bell (http://imdb.com/name/nm0068407/).... Prowl/Scrapper/Swoop/Junkion/Bombshell (voice)Gregg Berger (http://imdb.com/name/nm0074185/).... Grimlock (voice)Susan Blu (http://imdb.com/name/nm0089454/).... Arcee (voice)Arthur Burghardt (http://imdb.com/name/nm0121386/).... Devastator (voice)Corey Burton (http://imdb.com/name/nm0123553/).... Spike/Brawn/Shockwave (voice)Roger C. Carmel (http://imdb.com/name/nm0138354/).... Cyclonus/Quintesson Leader (voice)Victor Caroli (http://imdb.com/name/nm0139027/).... Narrator (voice)Regis Cordic (http://imdb.com/name/nm0179571/).... Quintesson Judge (voice)Scatman Crothers (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001079/).... Jazz (voice)Peter Cullen (http://imdb.com/name/nm0191520/).... Optimus Prime/Ironhide (voice)BJ Davis (http://imdb.com/name/nm0202835/).... Dirge (voice)Paul Eiding (http://imdb.com/name/nm0251646/).... Perceptor (voice)Walker Edmiston (http://imdb.com/name/nm0249456/).... Inferno (voice)

EDIT:

MOST OF THE "ORGINAL" VOICE ACTORS ARE STILL ALIVE AND KICKIN?

[Conekiller]

The vocies of Starscream, Ultra Magnus, Jazz, and Unicron have passed away.

I'm assuming they're trying to get the shooting done first and worry about voices for the robots around when the CG is ready to get started.

[Undrave]

Just because those guys were the original doesn't mean they are the best for the job. Personally I'd like some of the Vancouver VA to be used... I like Cybertron Starscream's voice (plus the original VA's dead anyway).

[Matt Hazuda]

The humans should not be the main focus, but just horrified observers in a war that raged over millions of years. Having a teen hero "Save the day" is a stupid and moronic idea used ot get filthy, booger-eating kids think they can relate to someone in the movie.

The best TF series, Beast Wars, had no permanent human cast and look at how well it did. I just hope we don't get stuck with a movie that's all about the humans and the TF end up being relegated to some action until the big ending.

[Undrave]

The humans should not be the main focus, but just horrified observers in a war that raged over millions of years. Having a teen hero "Save the day" is a stupid and moronic idea used ot get filthy, booger-eating kids think they can relate to someone in the movie.

The best TF series, Beast Wars, had no permanent human cast and look at how well it did. I just hope we don't get stuck with a movie that's all about the humans and the TF end up being relegated to some action until the big ending.

I hope the teen only 'saves the day' as in he becomes the link betweem the Autobots and the military, just so they don't attack blindly. Otherwise it would suck.

I don't see why they feel the need to include young humans for young viewers to identified... can't they just use Bumblebee or so other 'teenage-like' Transformer for that?! Make them more humans than the humans.

[AdamYJ]

The humans should not be the main focus, but just horrified observers in a war that raged over millions of years. Having a teen hero "Save the day" is a stupid and moronic idea used ot get filthy, booger-eating kids think they can relate to someone in the movie.

The best TF series, Beast Wars, had no permanent human cast and look at how well it did. I just hope we don't get stuck with a movie that's all about the humans and the TF end up being relegated to some action until the big ending.

Well, I think it would be moronic to not include humans to some extent. I like the idea of having a "teen hero" as someone who works with the Autobots. Kind of like Spike Witwicky in the series or his son Daniel in the animated movie. Fans always downplay the necessity of having some humans. But if these robots are gonna be fighting on Earth, then there had better be at least one human on the main cast of good guys. I mean, it's our freakin' planet! As a human being, I'm kind of pissed at the idea that robots can land on our planet and start fighting with us being nothing but specks in the background (truth be told, if they did that, I'd hate the Autobots just as much as the Decepticons for it). If humans have next to no role, then there's no reason for them to be fighting on Earth, other than the fact that they look like cars and planes. They might as well stay on Cybertron. Now, I'm not saying I want this kid to be like Rad or Carlos or Alexis from Transformers: Armada or anything. I don't want it to be completely from the viewpoint of a rather useless kid, but I do want him integrated into the cast.

Also, Beast Wars was different and you know it. The setting kind of ruled out the presence of humans anyway. Unless you count those proto-humans that Dinobot sacrificed himself to save.

[Conekiller]

I have a feeling at one point the movie will deal with Optimus realizing that their war is jeapordizing human lives, more than likely via Shia's character.

I too would like a downplayed human presence tho. That would be like the fst Ninja Turtles focusing on April and that bratty kid and having the Turtles show up when they needed a fight scene.

Also, please no "Autobot fanclub" like Armada's kids :shrug:

[AdamYJ]

I have a feeling at one point the movie will deal with Optimus realizing that their war is jeapordizing human lives, more than likely via Shia's character.

I too would like a downplayed human presence tho. That would be like the fst Ninja Turtles focusing on April and that bratty kid and having the Turtles show up when they needed a fight scene.

Also, please no "Autobot fanclub" like Armada's kids :shrug:

Yeah, please no "gee whiz, Optimus, you guys are awesome." They should have guys like Spike and Sparkplug who seemed semi-useful. They knew about working on machines and could help the Autobots fit in reasonably well on the planet.

Also, I think your TMNT analogy is about right. The Turtles were important, but so were April O'Neil, Casey Jones and even Danny Pennington in their own way.

The thing is that whenever I hear Trans-fans crowing about minimized human involvement, it always sounds to me that they want the Autobots and Decepticons to just show up on Earth and start wailing on each other without even considering that there are humans there. Of course, when I get that impression, I can't help thinking "Hey, it's our planet. If you're not going to involve us, get your damn war off our planet."

[Undrave]

Yeah, please no "gee whiz, Optimus, you guys are awesome." They should have guys like Spike and Sparkplug who seemed semi-useful. They knew about working on machines and could help the Autobots fit in reasonably well on the planet.

Also, I think your TMNT analogy is about right. The Turtles were important, but so were April O'Neil, Casey Jones and even Danny Pennington in their own way.

The thing is that whenever I hear Trans-fans crowing about minimized human involvement, it always sounds to me that they want the Autobots and Decepticons to just show up on Earth and start wailing on each other without even considering that there are humans there. Of course, when I get that impression, I can't help thinking "Hey, it's our planet. If you're not going to involve us, get your damn war off our planet." I hope I didn't come off as wanting no humans at all... I agree with the downplayed humans. They are important but not to the extend where the Transformers themself become background noises. I hope this movie doesn't simply turn into a SFX showcase movie where the story is thrown out the window for the sake of going "OMG! Giant robotz fighting yoz! That's so xtreme!!!!111 LOLZ!" ya know.

[AdamYJ]

I hope I didn't come off as wanting no humans at all... I agree with the downplayed humans. They are important but not to the extend where the Transformers themself become background noises. I hope this movie doesn't simply turn into a SFX showcase movie where the story is thrown out the window for the sake of going "OMG! Giant robotz fighting yoz! That's so xtreme!!!!111 LOLZ!" ya know.

Okay, I think I get it now.

I think the thing is that the more hardcore Transformers fans are a bit more pissed off by humans "stealing" stage time in some of the latest cartoons. I really haven't watched any of them. I watched a little bit of Armada, but I skipped Energon and Cybertron. So, my view of human involvement was mostly based on what I could remember from Generation 1. I didn't get where people's intensity was coming from.

[Undrave]

Okay, I think I get it now.

I think the thing is that the more hardcore Transformers fans are a bit more pissed off by humans "stealing" stage time in some of the latest cartoons. I really haven't watched any of them. I watched a little bit of Armada, but I skipped Energon and Cybertron. So, my view of human involvement was mostly based on what I could remember from Generation 1. I didn't get where people's intensity was coming from.

I never saw Armada but I know that I HATE Kicker in Energon. Bleh. But I liked the kids in Cybertron, and the other human allies (the professor and the military guy). They weren't upstaging the Transformers and yet were useful. Mostly because only the three kids could hear the Omega Frequency and thus detect the Omega Lock and Cyber Planet Keys.

[Conekiller]

That stuff about hearing th eomega lock was made up for the US version, but the Cybertron kids are still largely more usefull and less annoying than the Armada kids and Kicker

[Undrave]

Really? Wow... that's weird 'cause it actually makes sense that they can hear it and thus need to hang around.

So I guess in Galaxy Force they were mostly a fanclub/guide to earth kinda thing huh?

At least personality wise they weren't annoying. Lori was fun.

[Obi]

A SUPER HOT AND SUPER SMART CODEBREAKER! :gir:

I'm one of the resident Transfans around here and, really, I'm not expecting too much. It's a Michael Bay movie. It will be fun. Maybe not smart, but fun. At the very least, we'll get plenty of giant robots blowing things up good. :p

[Undrave]

I want to see the Decepticon tore the army a new one.

[Conekiller]

I want to see a bunch of humans crawl into a tank, only to have it transform into Megatron, who then goes on to complain how he hates when human bits get jammed up inside him.

[JohnCrichton]

I've never really expected this to be any good. And now we get................."Sam?"

Why isn't he just named, Spike?

That we don't even get a Spike Witwicky really cheeses me off already.

Transformers is too weird. Power Rangers weird. You have to be a geek to get it and I just don't see this working to a big audience.

And Bernie Mac is going to be in it as a car salesman?

I didn't see that in there, but that... ugh.... -___-

[Obi]

I've never really expected this to be any good. And now we get................."Sam?"

Why isn't he just named, Spike?

That we don't even get a Spike Witwicky really cheeses me off already.

It's a casting name.

[JohnCrichton]

It's a casting name.

And that means.......

[Craig Crumpton]

Transformers is too weird. Power Rangers weird. You have to be a geek to get it and I just don't see this working to a big audience.And *this* from someone who has http://henshinjustice.com/ listed on his profile as his homepage.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

This has disaster written all over it. If I want live action robots, I'd go to a monster truck rally. Actually, I bet even the robots in those monster truck shows would look better than this will.

[JohnCrichton]

And *this* from someone who has http://henshinjustice.com/ listed on his profile as his homepage.

Hey, I'm weird enough to know what's cool about Transformers. But the rest of the world in a big budget blockbuster... I just can't see them getting their breath taken away by Optimus Prime and the Matrix.

Normal folk would laugh it out of the threatre. I might like it.. possibly, but I don't see how Hollywood thought this would be a good idea.

Anyway... more hot buttered news from Ain't It Cool:
http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23105

[Conekiller]

And that means.......

May not be the actual name of the character, the original casting info we got was from a stealth title, not "The Transformers" so all the name featured there could be fake to throw off net-hounds.

I think there's enough market of people who went "Hey I remember watching that when I was younger, this looks *as good as I remember Transformers being* I may give it a try/take my kid to go see it" Not to mention the kids who are into the show now (lots of my little brothers' friends like the new show, it's too bad the schedule keeps getting jerked with)

[JohnCrichton]

From what I read from that AICN report, I have to say... it just might work.

I would LOVE to be wrong.

[Nin-Nin69]

Wait Michael Bay is still involved with this movie? You lied to me Hollywood! You lied right in my face! :mad:

[Conekiller]

When was he not involved? I don't recall ever hearing a "YES I'M ATTATCHED TO THIS MOVIE" but his name has been synonymous with this project almost as long as Speilburg's has been.