Transformers More on the "Human" Cast

[echostation]

Bernie Mac in a transformer film? the ****?

Josh Duhamel is a solid actor, I'm actually really glad he got this major major big budget film... the dude is solid on Las Vegas and him, Voigt, and La Boeuf are the only ones who seem promising in the cast alongside eye candy Megan Fox... but the rest? Maybe John Tuturro if he acts like the annoying jack ass he did on The Quiz Show... he could be one of those sort of jack ass scientists like Paul Reiser did in Aliens

 

[Darthkush]

Why all the Bernie Mac hate? He's just playing a car salesman for god's sake. And all this "cracka whitey blah blah" you guys are saying about his act is silly too. Have you ever seen it? More than just one joke? I doubt it. You sound just as silly as those who think Chris Rock hates White people.

Anywho, I don't find that cast to be bad at all. Now if these people were announced as the VOICES OF THE ROBOTS then, and ONLY then would I see why everyone was pissed. If Bernie mac was Optimus Prime for example, I'd raise hell. But a car salesman? or in the cast of Voight, Duncan and others, Soldiers? Who gives a *****?

 

[deathshead2]

Why all the Bernie Mac hate? He's just playing a car salesman for god's sake. And all this "cracka whitey blah blah" you guys are saying about his act is silly too. Have you ever seen it? More than just one joke? I doubt it. You sound just as silly as those who think Chris Rock hates White people.

Anywho, I don't find that cast to be bad at all. Now if these people were announced as the VOICES OF THE ROBOTS then, and ONLY then would I see why everyone was pissed. If Bernie mac was Optimus Prime for example, I'd raise hell. But a car salesman? or in the cast of Voight, Duncan and others, Soldiers? Who gives a *****?

Oh sorry the news he was playing a car salesman wasn't posted until after I made my comment. Now im not so worried even though he does have bad jokes.

 

[JackMercy]

I was interested in this film until the cast was announced...

Expect "Fast and the Furious" meets "Bad Boys," except with cars that transform and talk.

$10 says the Teaser Trailer features a shot of a Transformer rising up in back of Bernie Mac, who hears it, swings around, goes wide-eyed and gasps "Oh, Hell no!"

I'm done.

 

[muscaremy]

man people need to READ before commenting.... Macs gonna be a car salesman (probably the one that sell shia his car) and nothin more... people over react way to easily

and tad hamilton and transformers whoooo hooo......also
"NOBODY ****S WIT DEJESUS"

 

[skorponok]

Wow, that's such an informative, interesting and notable post. I sure wish all forum posters were as descriptive as you.

Well...you didn't say why you were "worried" about a cast before you even got note of what roles they were cast in or how much they would be in the actual film...so right back atcha, sonny

 

[Excel]

tyrese will be the big hero who is funny and has all the one liners

 

[skorponok]

What I'm wondering is...


...if VOIGHT isn't Sparkplug, who is?

 

[Destructicus]

I was interested in this film until the cast was announced...

Expect "Fast and the Furious" meets "Bad Boys," except with cars that transform and talk.

$10 says the Teaser Trailer features a shot of a Transformer rising up in back of Bernie Mac, who hears it, swings around, goes wide-eyed and gasps "Oh, Hell no!"

I'm done.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that the movie will be Bad Boys meets Fast and the Furious, but I will put my ten dollars in to say that the teaser you just mentioned will happen. I honestly say I would laugh my ass off if I saw that in this movie.

 

[roach]

nothing about the cast worries me....alot of things that sound crappy look awesome and a lot of things that sound awesome look crappy on film

 

[Sardaukar]

I was interested in this film until the cast was announced...

Expect "Fast and the Furious" meets "Bad Boys," except with cars that transform and talk.

$10 says the Teaser Trailer features a shot of a Transformer rising up in back of Bernie Mac, who hears it, swings around, goes wide-eyed and gasps "Oh, Hell no!"

I'm done.

Sound about right.

 

[TheVileOne]

So is it Sam instead of Spike?

And who will do the voices of the transformers themselves?

 

[terry78]

On AICN, they said Quint sat down with Bay who says he wants the originals, but if they've aged over time and their voices aren't matching up, they may go with new people. He also says we will see Cybertron before the war.

 

[Advocate05]

I like Mr. 3000 and Kings of Comedy, but Bernie Mac in Transformers is a I dunno. I wanted this to be serious and not all Kiddy kiddy oneliner crud.

 

[terry78]

I'm not dismissing Mac just yet, as I think he's one of the few comedians who would really be watching it through our own eyes in the theatre, as whatever comments he's saying is more than likely what we'd be thinking if we were seeing Transformers in front of us battling. You know you'd be cursing a blue streak.

 

[KenK]

I like Mr. 3000 and Kings of Comedy, but Bernie Mac in Transformers is a I dunno. I wanted this to be serious and not all Kiddy kiddy oneliner crud.

He's just gonna be the car salesman who sells Shia's character his car. That's all we know, that'll will probably be the extent of his character. Calm da **** down! And let's be real, a movie based on a cartoon (that's pretty much based on a toy line), can only be so "serious" Especially if they get the original voice actors, like Frank Welker. A third of the Transformers will be played up for laughs just off their voices alone. Who's gonna listen to Starscream and not chuckle?

 

[JackMercy]

KenK's kind of got a point. There's going to be a seriously strange tone to this movie if they don't get it just right.

Is Bay going to use "You've got the Touch" ?

Seems about his style...




Oh, and don't count on the original voice actors being used in this film.
No way it's gonna happen. It's just Bay's way of placating the fans for just a while longer, until we see footage and "forget all about it"...

You had stars in the original animated film (for certain characters), that's what's going to happen here. It will all be digitally manipulated anyway -- come on, Tom Hanks doing Optimus wouldn't be all that bad...

Regardless, I'm sure we'll get a great action movie, I just wouldn't hold out any hope for any specific fan satisfaction, or even semi-serious tone.
You can even tell from Quint's report that Bay clearly saw this visit as a laborious "chore" rather than any kind of "promotion."

Still, how this guy even gets work after "The Island" is beyond me...

Ok, now I'm done.

 

[roach]

Oh, and don't count on the original voice actors being used in this film.
No way it's gonna happen. It's just Bay's way of placating the fans for just a while longer, until we see footage and "forget all about it"...

You had stars in the original animated film (for certain characters), that's what's going to happen here. It will all be digitally manipulated anyway -- come on, Tom Hanks doing Optimus wouldn't be all that bad...

Regardless, I'm sure we'll get a great action movie, I just wouldn't hold out any hope for any specific fan satisfaction, or even semi-serious tone.
You can even tell from Quint's report that Bay clearly saw this visit as a laborious "chore" rather than any kind of "promotion."

Still, how this guy even gets work after "The Island" is beyond me...

Ok, now I'm done.

Hate Bay much......seems like you have a slight opinion about the guy
Nothing in that interview seemed like it was laborous to me...the interviewer even said he was excited to show him stuff.
but why should I even point this out since you have such insite into the man's innner thinkings on the movie. You seem to know his thoughts, desires and motivations

 

[Hunter Rider]

Not sure if this has been posted but 2 actors have been confirmed

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23207

There's more than meets the eye with Megan Fox and Jon Voight! They're official now!!!


Ahoy, squirts! Quint here again, this time with the official announcement confirming the online rumors that circulated a few weeks ago about casting in TRANSFORMERS... at least some of them. When I brought Jon Voight up to Michael Bay during my sit-down the him, he wouldn't confirm or deny the rumor, but he did have a grin on his face that didn't dodge the question as well as his words did.

Now it's officially official. Joe Buck is in a TRANSFORMERS movie. If that don't beat all. (PS, he's playing a character, not voicing an Autobot or Decepticon... he's said he's playing the Secretary of State)

Also officially announced today is Megan Fox, some young thang that I have never seen act before... guess I missed out on CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN. She's really pretty, though. She's been cast as Shia LaBeouf's love interest. Get them animal crackers out!!

 

[zer00]

Transformers Cast Confirmed
You heard it here first!
by Stax

May 3, 2006 - IGN FilmForce first reported a few weeks ago that the cast of the live-action Transformers movie was shaping up to be quite an ensemble, with the likes of Oscar winner Jon Voight, Josh Duhamel, Bernie Mac and John Turturro leading the contenders to play the human roles in the film.

Variety has confirmed that Voight has been cast, and "Josh Duhamel, Bernie Mac, John Turturro, Megan Fox and John Robinson are expected to round out the cast. Travis Van Winkle and Shia LeBeouf have already been announced."

The trade adds that "many of the rumored names are not likely to end up in the film." Well, by Variety's own count 7 of the 10 names we mentioned (excluding Michael Clarke Duncan, Tyrese and Rachael Taylor) are now confirmed so that can hardly qualify as "many." That darn "new math" must be to blame.

The DreamWorks-Paramount project, which bears a $100+ million price tag, starts filming later this month under the direction of Michael Bay.

The Transformers is slated to open July 4, 2007.

Interview with Voight where he mentions TF
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=35823

Wasn't sure if any of this had been posted

 

[Hypestyle]

I suspect that Bay will write realistic dialogue for the characters and not push the events into camp.. that would be too easy.. I think that by having some well known 'character' acters, but not all A-list headliners, they keep the budget down, but still have some recognizable names, and have the main draw be the Transformers, not "Bruce Willis/Tom Cruise/etc. vs. the Transformers"..

 

[Hunter Rider]

can somebody post pics of the cast so we knowwhat they look like.

Travis Van Winkle



Jon Voight



Megan Fox

Michale Clarke Duncan



Josh Duhamel



Rachel Taylor

John Torturo

 

[Hunter Rider]

Shia LaBeof

Bernie Mac



Tyrese

 

[terry78]

Would've preferred they all be a bunch of B-listers, which a lot of them are, but they're all recognized right off the bat, which I don't like. We'll see how it plays out.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14509

Jon Voight on Transformers

Source: Heather Newgen
May 11, 2006



ComingSoon.net caught up with Transformers star Jon Voight at the Hollywood premiere of Warner Bros.' Poseidon, and as much as we tried to get him to talk about the big screen version, the distinguished actor remained tight lipped.

"They gave me the script and they had a guard wait until I read it," he joked. "This is top secret stuff. I've taken one look at the script and they're keeping it very hush hush. It's very impressive I will say," Voight said.

He did say however, "It's going to be live action and going to be mostly CGI stuff."

Voight will play U.S. Secretary of State Keller in the film. Transformers is targeting a July 4, 2007 release