[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”11211″ img_size=”900×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]With Paramount’s Bumblebee getting ready to drop and reboot the franchise, it was unknown initially if the title character was going to have a voice and who would be supplying it. Up till this time, the trailers had shown his communication relying on available sources to him. Recently, IGN chatted with Transformers franchise producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura about Bumblebee and why he felt it was important for the film to give the Transformer his own speaking voice.
Since we were approaching this as an origin story, we felt that it was appropriate that you got to hear his voice. That’s the simple logic that we employed. The longer term implication of that is different. But the short-term implication of that is, since we really are resetting the mythology, essentially, of who Bumblebee is. And so, that seemed to us to be the appropriate, to get the chance to hear what he sounds like.
They chose Maze Runner’s Dylan O’Brien to fill that role and according to Bonaventure, it seems like a good choice as far as audiences who have seen the preview have said.
Dylan has that great quality in his voice of youthful exuberance, and also sort of trustworthiness. I think those are the two qualities that we wanted Bumblebee to have. Thankfully, we’ve showed it to a few audiences, and people seem to think that it’d be right and an appropriate voice,” he said. “You never know, obviously that can be a sensitive thing for people. But it turns out, they imagine his voice that way.
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