Comments on: Michael Clarke Duncan ‘In Negotiations’ to Voice GREEN LANTERN’s Kilowog

By: Derrick Fish

Derrick Fish — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:03:10 +0000

They probably just paid a professional voice actor like Kevin Michale Richardson (Who I believe provides the voice for the video game) months ago to provide the “scratch” voice that has been animated to. Then they bring in a “name” celebrity that will get people buzzing to come in, and repeat not just the lines, but match the timing and intonation. (and any ad libs the “scratch” voicecame up with.)

This happens a lot according to Billy West who has spoken at length on the crappy practice.

By: Hubert

Hubert — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:23:40 +0000

Surprised they didn’t take care of the voice work much earlier. Seems like something they could have had finished well before they were this deep into post-production.

I’m wondering: how much animation and rendering time will this take, and would they have saved some time and effort if they finished the voice work a while back?

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:44:43 +0000

Wow, talking about waiting until the last minute. Seems like 2 months is a pretty narrow window to sign an actor, get them in the studio, and also deliver a quality performance that gels with the film. Fanboys are going nuts over GL footage, but something about it still seems “off” to me. Reading that they don’t even know who the voice of a key character is going to be at this stage reinforces that.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:13:20 +0000

Voice recording, especially on characters like Kilowog and Tomar Re, are some of the easiest stuff to do, and can be done the latest. Because they are not humans, lip sync is actually easier (we expect Gollum, a human-like creature, to have similar mouth movements. But Tomar has a beak, and thus it merely needs to be close). Also, since they are merely providing the voices, and not driving the performances (IE motion capture) much of the voice sync can be done before they even show up to read the lines…the producers will be making the actors read as they want them too. Infact, if you want a good demonstration of how it will be, watch the voice-work feature on the God of War 2 bonus disc that actually features Michael Clarke Duncan doing the voice of Atlas.

By: Simon DelMonte

Simon DelMonte — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:45:58 +0000

I guess CGI movies don’t work like The Simpsons, where the voice is recorded way before anything else.

Then again, this is basically just ADR, and that is often done late.

By: Thiago Ribeiro

Thiago Ribeiro — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:41:30 +0000

I was going to say the exact same thing!

By: Kevin T. Brown

Kevin T. Brown — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:14:09 +0000

2 months to go…. cutting this a little close, aren’t they…?

By: Claudio Pozas

Claudio Pozas — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:46:28 +0000

Man, now I want to hear Michael Clarke Duncan and Geoffrey Rush deliver the GL oath…

By: Ziyad

Ziyad — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:21:06 +0000

cool.