Who else is at a point that they don't care M.J. Fox isn't doing the voice?
Maybe this topic is redundant but I thought it was worth mentioning how TellTale delivered with the voice for Marty.
Remember a while back? Remember when we were so worried about who would do the voice of Marty? We wouldn't accept anyone other that M.J. Fox himself. Even for a while when AJ was cast some people had somewhat mixed feelings about it not being MJ himself.
But now....it all seems so natural for AJ LoCascio to be Marty. Everyone is glad and accepted it.
I haven't even read a post for a couple of weeks now expressing their disappointment that M.J. Fox isn't in it anymore or even any mention of him.
0_o Almost as if we're like 'Naah....we don't need MJ anymore. We have this other great guy." lol...
It's amazing how everybody unanimously now considers this new voice to be Marty's.
Just think about it for a sec...and be thankful
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Now let's hope we can see a repeat in that process with the voice of Biff. It's going to be somewhat harder though.
But props to TellTale for pulling this off.
Remember a while back? Remember when we were so worried about who would do the voice of Marty? We wouldn't accept anyone other that M.J. Fox himself. Even for a while when AJ was cast some people had somewhat mixed feelings about it not being MJ himself.
But now....it all seems so natural for AJ LoCascio to be Marty. Everyone is glad and accepted it.
I haven't even read a post for a couple of weeks now expressing their disappointment that M.J. Fox isn't in it anymore or even any mention of him.
0_o Almost as if we're like 'Naah....we don't need MJ anymore. We have this other great guy." lol...
It's amazing how everybody unanimously now considers this new voice to be Marty's.
Just think about it for a sec...and be thankful
.Now let's hope we can see a repeat in that process with the voice of Biff. It's going to be somewhat harder though.
But props to TellTale for pulling this off.
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Now, for Tom Wilson, it's a whole différent matter. They didn't even contact him !!!! That's irrespectful ans I don't see why we should be ok with the new guy... ( actually I really don't mind myself, I think he's good, but I speak for Most people )
I am not saying nobody cares about M.J. Fox.
It just doesn't bother me at the slightest he isn't doing the voice anymore though.
And I am not saying AJ is the new Marty. Ofcourse we will always picture MJ.Fox when we see Marty. After all the in-game model is build to resemble him.
It's just that they managed to do the voice of Marty so well that there is never an instant that I am thinking 'Meh...this is not Marty.' There is just really nothing off with this games Marty for me.
It's just THAT convincing imho.
And i would never say "Nah... we dont need him anymore.". That would be kinda mean.
It's only mean if you want to interpret it that way.
Okay this topic can be deleted. I was wrong. I guess I am the only one thinking about it this way.
1. Alan said they DID try to contact him. His agents didn't pass along the message.
2. "Irrespectful" is not a word.
3. The "new guy" has been in almost every Telltale game. We know he's talented, even if the imitation isn't perfect.
We all wish MJ Fox would be able to be the role again, but least he was contacted, and gave permission for telltale to use his likeness so the story can continue.
when i watched the trailer i saw aj's face in my mind everytime when marty was talking, not mj fox's.
i wish i would not know how aj looks like... damn you, internet, DAMN YOU!!
I guess so. You probably didnt mean it the way it sounded.
And AJ doing this is fine with me.
Well i do think it's a shame that MJF cannot do it, but since it can't be helped...
At least this way BttF can continue ... which is, you know ... awesome.
That is very sad to hear. I was under the impression people didn't have things like that.
And furthermore, I have grown up with the German dubs anyway, so MJFox isn't even the "real" Marty voice for me.
Yeah me too, they made too many interviews with him. And since I'm watching Spin City at the moment (and AJ sounds nothing like this MJ), it doesn't help.
1. Well I didn't know about that, sorry then.
2. I'm not a native english speaker, sorry for the mistake, though I'm pretty sure you got what I meant.
3. He never voiced Biff. Thus, he's the new guy voicing Biff. O_o I never said the guy wasn't talented, I said he's not Tom Wilson. Obviously they weren't gonna pick a talentless guy who's never done any voice acting before... How is that wrong in any way ? Please tell me I'd love to actually know.
What ?
It's not as if Mj Fox had a totally different voice right now ...
Hearing him on talk shows or Spin city, even if he has a slightly deeper voice, it's still pretty much the same voice ...
Yes! Yeeesss! YEEEEEESSS!!
I thought he was very good, but the voice came and went a bit. Although - is it true that Telltale didnt case him per se, but that he was Aardman's official stand-in, voicewise, for Sallis, already?
As to this business with Tom Wilson, I don't think it's worth our speculating and apportioning "blame". There is a story that Paul McGann's agent (NOT Janet Fielding, though) refused to pass on offers from Big Finish to reprise the 8th Doctor on audio - the first he knew of it, it is alleged, was when he answered his agent's phone!
second!
So you want that to finally happen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg6YEqWskrQ#t=0m23s
That's great, Scott!
You said you didn't see why we should be okay with Andrew as Biff; a statement that came off as attacking to a man who's just doing his job. I'm merely saying his relationship with Telltale and the other roles we liked him in is a good reason to at the very least tolerate him.
Adam Harrington was sucker-punched with LeChuck in the name of fan-service (thankfully, his role was minimal in Chapter 1 of Tales), but Tannens will clearly play a MUCH bigger role straight from the early parts of the game, meaning that Andrew most likely worked hard and recorded a lot already. Sucker-punching him in the name of fan-service too will be a very harsh, disrespectful, and inappropriate thing to do, so I hope TellTale won't do it.
It is relevant, because Telltale says they tried to contact him, and Wilson says he was never contacted, as well as implying he would have been open to doing the voice had he been contacted. Something went wrong somewhere. If Wilson had been contacted and he said "no", then I'd be all for saying "to hell with Wilson", but since he wasn't, I can't just dismiss him that easily.
Again, no. Alan Johnson said that the BTTF team was aware of the comments Wilson posted on YouTube that he'd never been contacted. So, it's possible that they are still trying to contact him.
Andrew was already replaced once as the voice of Max, apparently due to illness (which is sad and completely out of his control). But, it was a permanent replacement. He didn't come back as the voice of Max later that season or in the subsequent seasons. So, in a way, he's already been "sucker-punched" due to his permanent replacement after he was healthy again (BTW, I love William Kasten as Max, but the point still stands).
Seriously. Though in a not 'Why so serious' way
It's not long till the first episode is out. As far as I understand, the voices of the second are already recorded (or recording is in progress). Andrew is listed as voice of Biff on the recent site update. It's too late for Wilson to appear, it's something that should've been taken care of a few months earlier. So, Biff's voice in the first episode will be Andrew's.
However, I want to point out that I will be quite content with the following situation: they WILL manage to get Wilson, have him re-record only the lines of the original Biff Tannaen, but leave all the other Tannens (like Kid, who I understand will play a very important role in the story) with Andrew's voice.
But more the fact that we just don't hear anything from MJF, no involvement, no message .. just nothing. We as diehard fans should be already glad with a simple message from MJF with like "Have fun with the game, hope you like it!" or just something really small so that we all know he's still out there somewhere!
Hell, i would be happy if he'd say something like "I'm gonna watch Christopher Lloyd play BTTF game for me"
I know he's sick, and these kind of topics about MJF has repeatedly been posted on this forum in the past, or was it the future? Anyway!
I think its more about the involvement then the voice itself.
I'm not gonna judge the Biff voice until I hear some actual classic Biff lines.. Idk what happened with the communication between Telltale and Tom Wilson, but I thought for sure he would be able to voice Biff, I mean come on..is he really that busy???
I'm glad this worked out for AJ, that makes one of us.
Cut Andrew some slack folks, Wilson has one of those voices that isn't as distinctive as a Michael J Fox or Peter Sallis, thus more difficult to match. I didn't even bother auditioning for Biff. I started out, got to the mic, and realized I had no idea how to do this guys voice. Uhhhh, maybe I should've done the same thing with LeChuck. Harr Harrrr Harrrrrr!
This completely reflects my thoughts on the situation.
AJ does a wonderful job and makes a new truly likable character named Marty, but it's not truly Marty McFly... I dunno, maybe that's also because I feel like the 3D model of Marty is too short.
Or, you know what, this model and AJ does a better Marty McFly in one sense because Marty McFly is known to be going to highschool. And in the movies I ALWAYS had a bad time acknowledging that Michael J Fox was going to highschool. He looked definitely more mature than that. But this Marty looks really young, AND sounds really young thanks to AJ.
Can you show me the quote where this implied statement originated? Because I think fans have been reading too much into Wilson's statements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwY5o2fsG7Y
It's in the pile of comments under this video. I'm too lazy to find myself but I did see it in Uploader's Comments section a month ago or so.
Well, he does say "Surely they're going for an inferior product" or something like that, so this makes me believe he would join the crew if he got the message of Telltale. He does not imply anything about not doing any voice work for his former character, if anything he slightly implies the complete opposite.
Now that you mention it. AJ sounds more like Marty from the first BttF (I say the first because even MJF sounds different in comparison to himself in others) than Christopher Lloyd sounds as Christopher Lloyd from any of the BttFs. Kinda ironic (Don't get me wrong, CL still does an awesome job).
AJ did a great job, I really like his voice acting in the game. Telltale made a very good decision by hiring him for the game.
I was bummed when I lost the role, but I totally get it. It's tough to stand in for such a memorable performer. When Earl came out of retirement TT HAD no choice but to slip him right back into that green skin. Not doing so would be like George telling James Earl Jones... "It's OK Mr. Jones, we have a new kid voicing Vader.
I'm more than happy with all the other work they throw my way. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUErDpw6YG4
Mr. Harrington, are you sure Star Wars is a good example?