Correction: The Transformer in question is actually Frenzy and not Soundwave.
Howard Stern was asked to briefly voice Soundwave Frenzy in the upcoming Transformers movie. For those of you who don’t know, Soundwave Frenzy takes the form of small consumer electronic devices. At one point in the new movie, the Transformer will be disguised as a radio, and according to Stern, Dreamworks asked the king of all media to lend his voice.
“They contracted me like a week ago. My agent said they wanted my voice on the radio,” Stern revealed on Monday morning’s radio show. “And the letter sucks me in, it goes [paraphrasing]: We feel you represent America’s icon of radio, and when that radio turns on just for a couple seconds, the audience gets to hear your voice. The crowd will go insane. And I’m like, YEAH! Then my agent gets a hold of me. It’s almost like he shakes me up and smacks me.”
So it looks like no Transformers for Stern.
“I said to him [agent]: This movie, The Transformers, it could be a really big movie. And he goes ‘So, it won’t be because of you, because your f’n voice is on the radio,” Stern said. “I thought it might be kinda cool but my agent said ‘you don’t want to be in the movie as an f’n voice on the radio. And I said, you know, you’re right.”
My question is: Why is Dreamworks/Paramount contacting actors to do voice work in late May for a movie which hits theaters in early July? Is the film that far from complete?
June 4th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
I’m sure it’s just minor second unit stuff they are still fine-tuning - nothing to
worry about.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
they aren’t asking him to be a voice for soundwave. they are asking if his voice can appear on a robot’s radio, ie: soundwave will play howard stern’s show outloud through his speakers or whatever. this can be added however late they want, it’s a trivial 3 second soundbit that would just be thrown in.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:22 am
I have to agree with gjhfgj. If these quotes are accurate than it is obvious that they only want Stern for a quick radio blurb and not the actual Soundwave character voice. This looks to me like a prime example of bad reporting.
June 5th, 2007 at 8:28 am
You morons, soundwave isnt even in the movie. The radio is frenzy, and it wouldnt be for his voice it would be for when it turns on to blend in looking like a regular radio. I just finnished the book, and you’d think a website like this would have some inkling of what your talking about. For a sight that bashes aicn so often ( not that they dont deserve it) but you’d think you’d strive a little harder to get such an obvious story right.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
actually howard was never contacted, this is just another lie that has come spewing out of his mouth. the “king of self promotion” at it again. and by the way, o&a party rock.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Idiots, he wasn’t contacted recently it was awhile ago, they are not trying to edit the work now. It was not for voice work but rather a sound clip while the robot was in radio form. They thought it would be neat to hear his show rather then some random music or a baseball game etc.
go back to reporting school.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
one of the transformers turns into a small radio? what has this world come to?
June 6th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Well at least the radio’s name was corrected. Seems this whole article should be cut.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Actually Howard refused because he invented cars that turn into robots back in his WNBC days.