Weta Jumps On Board

A ten-year old could have worked this one out. "Eh, m'kay... you see, we have like this CG character but we kiiiinda like wanna have him act like a human. Do you know anyone who can like, erm... do that?". Yes, yes I do...

News comes through Coming Soon that The Hollywood Reporter confirms Weta Digital will be responsible for bringing to life the Herald Of Galactus for all our movie oogling glory in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. As the song goes; "Nooobody, doooes it betteeer". Except maybe ILM.

It looks like Doug Jones is, of course, going to record the shiny naked one's motion capture but he hasn't got the monopoly on the character yet. Oh no - it looks like Fox is keeping an open mind on the character's voice and may be looking for another actor to verbally smack us with news of the Earth's scheduled destruction. Although it should be known, as Cinematical helpfully points out, Jones will be providing the Voice for Abe Sapien the second time around for Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Why not this one then? After all the digital audio processing that's sure to be involved, won't he sound just as good as anyone else?