By Ryan Parsons | Image property of 20th Century Fox, Variety.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
With Hugo Weaving voicing every big character from 'V' to Transformers, I have to admit that I am slightly surprised that he wasn't selected to be Silver for Fantastic
Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Though the actor does have a considerable amount of base in his voice, he couldn't compete with Laurence Fishburne's trombone vocals.
Laurence Fishburne to Voice Silver Surfer
With Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer due to hit theatres in little under two months, it was crunch time for Fox to find an actor suitable enough to voice the character. Fishburne was first rumored to be up for the voice of Galactus, who we only recently learned will be portrayed by a storm cloud, but Fox is still unsure whether the character will even talk.
Not talk? What is he supposed to do, write notes and finish them with "KIT"!? Odd, considering that the character should have some influence on the story.
Fishburne should bring a lot of appeal to the film with his Morpheus roots from the Matrix trilogy. Hey, any guy that can convince us that a digital world could possibly exist is alright in my book.
Fishburne will next appear in Robert Luketic's upcoming film 21.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer opens to theatres
on June 15th.
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