Casting Begins

The producer confirmed it: Shia LeBeouf is playing Spike Witwicky in the Transformers live action movie.

A good choice, if you ask me. And it's good to know that this thing finally has legs.

Eventually they'll be casting another 3 or 4 major/minor human roles, but there's no clue yet as to the size of any of these roles. None of them are comic or cartoon continuity that I'm aware of, so it's tough to call how many other "big" names are going to be in this thing.

Voice acting's a whole different arena, too. We're looking at 6-10 Transformers in the flick, and there's two popular trains of thought as to their voices:

- Some fans want to see the original voice actors come in, either from the original G1 cartoon or the new voices in the Armada/Energon/Cybertron series.

- And, of course, there's the celebrity voices which will probably be more likely to happen. Tom Hanks is bouncing around the rumor mill, most likely as Bumblebee or Ratchet if he doesn't appear as a human in the film. Or maybe both. The name George Clooney keeps popping up as Optimus Prime for some reason, I have no idea what his attachment is to either Bay or Spielberg.

We should hopefully be hearing more casting in the next few weeks, so I'm wired up about that.

It's almost the weekend. Thank GOD! Road trip in a few days, plus I actually have time to eat dinner tonight! Huzzah!

And, maybe/hopefully/pleasepleaseplease, I'll have Kingdom Hearts II tonight. Target's screwed me for it so far, but they say Thursday's their normal release date for games. So here's hoping a lot.