Gosh, it’s certainly been a while. Those of you with long memories, or matchless devotion to Transformers, 1980’s style will know that Leonard Nimoy voiced Galvatron in 1986’s Transformers: The Movie. Galvatron was a kind of reboot of Megatron, after Unicron got his hands on him. Unicron was a planet-sized Transformer, voiced by Orson Welles, who was seeking the Matrix of Leadership.
It’s a bit complicated. Anyway….
Nimoy is set to return to Transformers voice duties, this time as Sentinel Prime, the brother of Optimus Prime and his predecessor as leader of the Autobots. Sentinel Prime was introduced to us on the front page of Empire Magazine a couple of months back and by the sound of things, he is the Transformer found/seen on the moon during this teaser and will feature in the film’s climactic showdown in Chicago.
Needless to say, Nimoy’s gravelly tones are perfectly suited to TF voice-duties and will bring a further touch of class to an already excellent voice cast (Peter Cullen, Hugo Weaving, Frank Welker). I’m tempted to be excited about TF3 after the debacle that was Revenge of the Fallen, but once bitten twice shy, so we’ll wait and see. What do you think?
