Michael Bay is nearly done post production on Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, but there is still one thing missing. The Fallen lacks a voice.
The fans all anticipated that Leonard Nimoy, who voiced Galvatron in the Transformers Animated Feature Film, would reprise his role (speculating Megatron would be reborn Galvatron) but now that coveted role might be better suited for him to voice The Fallen. But Bay is not eager to approach Nimoy for this.
“You know, he’s related to me… And now that you are filming this, maybe you can send it to him.”
Laughing during the response, Bay went on to explain his hesitance at popping the big question (yes, to some, this is more important than marriage).
“[Nimoy] is married to Susan Bay, who’s a cousin to me… I just feel kind of bad about asking him. Like ‘I can’t pay you that much? But would you do this voice?’”
I think it would be a nice fanservice for Nimoy, who has never been afraid to appease the fans. And like Bay says, he thinks Nimoy is worth more than they have set aside for the budget or he would have approached him already.
So how do you approach him with a lowball offer and ask if he will voice the badguy in your film?
You leak it on the net via interviews.
I predict it will happen, and I doubt that The Fallen will have many lines (but likely more than Megatron had) but this would be a nice movie for Nimoy. Not a career move, certainly not a financial one, but nice none the less.
