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This began a decades-long relationship with the Transformers franchise. During this time, he was cast in several animation shows and video games, including a role as Megatron in Beast Wars. On-camera opportunities came in the form of guest roles on TV series and movies such as The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, and Happy Gilmore. Working as an on-air talent for radio station CKLG ( LG73), he quickly became less interested as both on-camera and voice roles started taking up more of his time. ![]() Kaye's voice acting career began in 1989 with General Hawk in the DiC animated series G.I. He also did theater, playing George in a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Elwood P. He did voice work for various other studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for many years while occasionally doing voice work in Los Angeles, California, US, before fully relocating there in 2007.ĭuring the 1980s, Kaye moved to Vancouver to work in radio. He is also the announcer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO and voiced the Celestial Arishem in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals. He is also known for anime roles including Sesshōmaru in Inuyasha and Treize Khushrenada in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, and video game roles such as Clank in the Ratchet & Clank series and Nathan Hale in the Resistance series. He is best known for animation roles such as Megatron in five of the Transformers series ( Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron), Optimus Prime in Transformers: Animated, Professor X in X-Men: Evolution, Cronus in Class of the Titans, Khyber in Ben 10: Omniverse, several characters in Avengers Assemble, and Duckworth in the reboot of DuckTales. Transformers One is scheduled to hit theaters on September 13, 2024.David Kaye is a Canadian voice actor. ![]() There’s a lot to be excited about with this movie! This is a story I’m excited about seeing brought to life! The film is being directed by Josh Cooley ( Toy Story 4) from a script he wrote with Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. This will be the first of what Di Bonaventura calls a "natural trilogy,” and it’s going to explore “Cybertron in a way you've never seen it, that no one's ever seen it before.” We really are telling the origin story of all Transformers, both what they were at the beginning of it, to how they grow, to how they grow apart." So we're telling the young Optimus and the young Megatron story. If you know the origin, they started as friends, and over time things devolved for them and they ended up on two sides. "This is … the origin story of young Megatron and young Optimus. Transformers One is a prequel film that revolves around the origins of Cybertron, and the story will center on a young Optimus Prime and Megatron who are finding their path. The rest of the cast includes Brian Tyree Henry as Megatron, Keegan-Michael Key as Bumblebee, Jon Hamm as Sentinel Prime, and Laurence Fishburne as Alpha Trion. So it’s that transition, and Chris’s voice has a timbre that… it’s logical that Peter Cullen would take over that voice, if you would, which is really great, the fans are gonna really feel great.”ĭi Bonaventura also went on to say that Scarlett Johansson is “amazing” as the character Elita in the movie. When we first listen to Chris Hemsworth’s voice, you’re like, ‘God, is he gonna be a good Optimus!’ Obviously, he starts as Orion Pax and you don’t become Optimus for a while, so he’s not playing, for most of the movie, what we think of as Optimus, Peter Cullen. ![]() “Also, it’s the imagination of our artists and our director, and one of the great things is, as you actually put the voices to the characters. While talking to Collider, Di Bonaventura said: Peter Cullen will not reprise his role in this movie, but in a recent interview with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, he shared that he is excited for Hemsworth and praised his Optimus Prime voice. There are some big changes coming with this movie, and one of the biggest is that Chris Hemsworth will be providing the voice of a younger version of Optimus Prime. There’s a lot of exciting potential and this thing could tell a great and epic story. I’m actually a lot more excited about the upcoming animated Transformers One movie than I am for any of the live-action Transformers projects.
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