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ObiWan506
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Aug '03
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Date Posted:
5/9 10:50am
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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This is great. A Hayden confirmation will seal the deal.
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rumsmuggler
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Date Posted:
5/9 2:33pm
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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This is good news.
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_Sublime_Skywalker_
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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ObiWan506 posted:
This is great. A Hayden confirmation will seal the deal.
After seeing the high def version of the trailer, I'm about 91% sure that IS indeed Hayden. Anakin's my favorite character, and I've seen AOTC and ROTS so many times I can quote all of his lines by heart. I hear an almost exact voice match when he says "Fall back" and in the behind the scenes footage where he tells the commander him and Ashoka won't be able to assist him. But, if I'm wrong and it isn't Hayden, Then I'm well impressed with this voice actor.
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NelanisGhost
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Date Posted:
5/9 11:32pm
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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Hayden wanted to do it. I hope he does. He's a sweetie, more sentimental than he lets on. He never says anything bad about SW but you know all the moron reporters (who've never amounted to anything in their lives) want him to trash it. He's respectful of his "first family" as a celeb. He knows what side his bread is buttered on. Like that kid.
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WookieeWarrior9
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5/10 11:33am
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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Agreed. He's gotten a lot of undeserved crap and he's never once said anything bad about SW or the fans, at least as far as I know.
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Renzo
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5/10 1:28pm
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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From watching the trailers, Anakin doesn't quite sound like Hayden to me. I sure hope I am wrong, I would love for Hayden to be back as Anakin.
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WookieeWarrior9
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5/10 2:28pm
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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Sadly, I'd have to agree that it doesn't sound like Hayden. It does sound better than the other guy who did the voice of Anakin.
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Avnar
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5/12 2:05am
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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Good to hear he is still a fan! (Knowing some of the actors have kind of snubbed the saga after being in it)
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Wonderdoodle
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5/12 6:00am
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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Two things.
One, I'm glad that there are SW fans who like Hayden, because I personally think he's a great actor, and did well as Anakin.
Two... I imagine that Mr. Jackson will probably voice Mace in the series. It really wouldn't be that hard.
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_Sublime_Skywalker_
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5/12 9:56pm
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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Yeah SLJ doesn't seem like the kind of guy who likes to leave a job undone, or dissapoint his fans. It wouldn't be that hard at all, he could get the season done in about a day or two of voice work.
and like others mentioned, you can do it from satelite now. SLJ does have a certain pride about his characters, especially with Mace. I don't think he'd want any other person doing the voice.
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darth_nemisis
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5/13 7:59am
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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I am definitely very excited about this. Sammy J is awesome.
Now, I don't care if anyone else does their own voice acting...but if they could get Ian McDiarmid to do Palps...I'd be in heaven. I know that most likely won't happen, but wow...can you imagine? 
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5/14 8:27pm
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That would be pretty cool. Ian really has this thing about the voice of Sidious, he just sounds demented and dark.
But, I was quite impressed with the guy who did the voice for Palps in CW I and the ROTS video game. Though, some of the lines were cheesey.
My favorite part was when Grievous bust threw his window and he puts him in his place telling him no one can just come into his office and blah blah blah.
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BlackRook
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5/15 8:45pm
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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Very refreshing to hear Jackson's voice in the trailer. I actually didn't have a problem with his fill-in for Clone Wars, but it's still great to have him.
There's some fill-ins that work, and some that don't. Nick Jameson does a decent Palpatine, but his Sidious is almost comically exaggerated (I think he more or less admitted that he was intentionally playing it over-the-top in one of the BTH extras). Tom Kane's approach to Yoda is apparently just to do the funny voice, so he sounds like Crazy Yoda even when he's trying to deliver a serious line. Corey Burton's Dooku has always irked me- I'm not sure if it's because he sounds like he's straining really hard to maintain a deep voice, or if it's because he plays Dooku as being so overly proper and snooty in a way Christopher Lee never did... almost like a baritone C-3PO.
Those three are the biggest problems with the stand-by voice actors. It's gotten to the point where, when reading any novels involving them, I instinctively start hearing their voices whenever the characters' lines are poorly written. I'm not sure why that is, and wish I could turn it off, but I can't.
I know getting Frank Oz is reluctant to continue playing Yoda, but are Ian McDiarmid and Christopher Lee really so expensive? Hell, is Temuera Morrison? They've gotten him for small projects before. I can see why they'd go for replacements in CW GT, but if Lucas is trying to raise the bar here, the least he could do is try to get any actors that are still willing to return. On that note, it seems kind of awkward to leave Hayden Christensen out, when he's actually interested in doing it.
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darth_nemisis
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Date Posted:
5/15 9:07pm
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RE: Samuel Jackson willing to voice Mace Windu in the CGI series
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Yeah, Ian's Palpy voice is most definitely the best. That could be because he is Palps.  But, his voice is just really cool.
I don't see them getting Christopher Lee. He just seems like the type of actor to me that wouldn't take on a small role like this. Ian is the same way. However, I don't see why they wouldn't want to. I mean, I could see myself being the type of person that, if I was an actor and I was a character (like how Ian is Palpatine), then I wouldn't want anyone else to ruin it, you know what I mean?
Perhaps things just didn't work out with Hayden because, you're right...why wouldn't they use him if he openly stated he was interested? It just seems strange. Though, are you guys absolutely positive that he isn't doing it? IIRC, Anakin didn't really speak much in the trailer, just a one-liner (correct me if I'm wrong), perhaps it is him.
EDIT: Just for clarification, I am not saying that Hayden is doing Anakin, I am just speculating. 
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BlackRook
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Date Posted:
5/15 9:22pm
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Well, we have no way of knowing for sure if Hayden's in there or not. It'd be nice if Lucasfilm would at least post a cast list. We're only four months away from the premiere.
As for Lee, I do agree that he doesn't seem like the kind of person to do small projects... but he has done voice over roles for video games before. He was in one of the Kingdom Hearts games and even played Scaramanga again for a 007 game, and that's not even counting a few LOTR games that were made after the movies (and were likely not part of any pre-signed contractual obligation). Well, I do know he loves LOTR, but if he was willing to play Scaramanga again, surely he could be convinced to play Dooku at least once more.
I just think Lee has been underused. It's a shame to have him play Dooku for what amounts to the last hour of one movie and the first ten minutes of the next, and then hand the role over to a stand-in for the bulk of Count Dooku's story. Bringing him in for one or two CW-era projects might make up for it. Plus, he's not getting any younger...
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