Quit hiring “famous” people to play in video game movies. Hire unknowns that match the parts and use the original voice actors for the CGI characters. Claptrap should have been played by Claptrap! Mario should be played by Mario!
Look, I love the guy, but 90 minutes of Charles Martinet wahoo-ing through the Mario movie would be completely unwatchable. There’s a reason Mario almost never says more than a few words at a time.
The longer version is David Eddings was the Vice President of Business Development at Gearbox, and voiced Claptrap in Borderlands and Borderlands 2, for either very little or no extra pay. He left Gearbox, and CEO Randy Pitchford said some things about Eddings in an interview which led to a back-and-forth Twitter argument, allegations of assault and fraud against Pitchford, and a lawsuit. It was all big news while it happened but I can’t find much info now about where it landed, except that Gearbox found somebody else to voice Claptrap after that.
I was kinda hoping they’d work things out and get him for the movie, but, alas…
Quit hiring “famous” people to play in video game movies. Hire unknowns that match the parts and use the original voice actors for the CGI characters. Claptrap should have been played by Claptrap! Mario should be played by Mario!
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I did enjoy Chris Pratt’s Mario, which was unexpected. I don’t know about Jack Black’s performance in Borderlands, but he was good as Bowser.
I also don’t know how much of their voices were manipulated however.
Look, I love the guy, but 90 minutes of Charles Martinet wahoo-ing through the Mario movie would be completely unwatchable. There’s a reason Mario almost never says more than a few words at a time.
Charles Martinet has range, he can tone it down. I actually think he voiced the Italian version.
Didn’t the guy who originally played claptrap quit the games or something?
Essentially.
The longer version is David Eddings was the Vice President of Business Development at Gearbox, and voiced Claptrap in Borderlands and Borderlands 2, for either very little or no extra pay. He left Gearbox, and CEO Randy Pitchford said some things about Eddings in an interview which led to a back-and-forth Twitter argument, allegations of assault and fraud against Pitchford, and a lawsuit. It was all big news while it happened but I can’t find much info now about where it landed, except that Gearbox found somebody else to voice Claptrap after that.
I was kinda hoping they’d work things out and get him for the movie, but, alas…