Rope of Silicon have posted a great little article explaining their reasons for why Laurence Fishburne is the wrong kind of actor to the voice the Silver Sufer in the Fantastic Four sequel. I agree with them, 100%. His voice is too deep, too powerful, too recognizable. Doug Jones should have provided the voice for the character he motion captured for, or at least someone whose voice didn't sound like a big hefty black man. It's like James Earl Jones providing the voice for C3-PO! The site have also posted a great little clip which shows off a stunning little sequence from the film but it highlights perfectly the mis-match of voice and character on screen. Jessica Alba looks terrible in this scene too. Boy oh boy, isn't she just going to take every scene down a notch...
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The look of the Silver Surfer is finally starting to grow on me but if the voice is as terrible as it is in this scene all the way through the movie, then I'm constantly going to be distracted and taken out of the moment. The film opens 15h June in the both the U.K and the U.S.