It was being reported all over the web the other day that Morpheus himself, Laurence Fishburne, was going to be doing the voice of Galactus in the upcoming Fantastic Four sequel. However, that little mistake is now being corrected as it is NOW being reported that Fishburne will be doing the voice of The Silver Surfer. The good folks over at Yahoo give us this:
The character of the Silver Surfer, a herald to a cosmic world-devouring being known as Galactus, is played by noted character actor Doug Jones. He provided performance and movement references for Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital production house, which oversaw visual effects for the movie. Fishburne begins voice work this week.
This does make a lot more sense. Why get a voice like Laurence Fishburne’s is you’re just going to us him for a character with hardly any presence in the film at all? I think his voice will go quite with with the Surfer.
And I should probably mention this about the whole Cloud Galactus thing… even though it is as stupid as hell to make Galactus a frigging cloud… one stupid thing in a movie (especially if the role of the character in question is a small one in the film) does NOT ruin a whole movie. I don’t have much hope for Fantastic Four personally… but it’s not becuase they just butcher 1 character. Let’s just wait and see.
