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    According to Seibertron Hugo Weaving is back as Megatron... at least the Frank Welker rumours can be laid to rest.

    The funny thing is, one of the journalists mentioned (Sean Fewster) is an old friend of mine... I might try and contact him for more info...

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    no complaints from me, I liked Hugo as Megs

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    Yeah, as much as I love Welker, his G1 Megatron voice doesn't really fit the movie Megatron, the Hugo Weaving voice was pretty much spot on I felt

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    That blows a hole in Bay's claim that Megatron wasn't in TF2. Or maybe he meant that Megatron wasn't the major bad guy this time. Then again, he wasn't in the first one much either...

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    Well, I really liked Welker's voice in the game! As for ROTFLMAO... well, it's hardly a surprise Weaving is reprising his role!

    I'll never truly understand why people say Weaving was perfect and Welker just could not do the voice! Please don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Hugo fan! But puh-lease let's be honest... his voice was so digitally altered and had so many effects added that it was not recognisable at all.

    Seriously, what is the point of casting a man who has such a tremendous voice and then altering it so much that it doesn't sound like him? Anybody (even Welker - *gasp*) could have done that! Hell, they could have got a child to read the lines and just changed the pitch of the voice to sound deeper (I would rather hear Weaving's voice, not an over-processed version of it).

    And that's the other thing... Megatron didn't have many lines anyway. So (IMO) it would've been nice to have the 2 originals exchanging dialogue for a few brief scenes - I always thought that was a slap in Frank Welker's face!

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    Here's the full email Sean sent Seibertron:

    Mega Secret
    By Andrew Fenton
    Film Writer, The Advertiser

    In town to promote his rather excellent new Aussie film, "Last Ride", Hugo Weaving let slip he'll be returning as the voice of Megatron in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".

    Fans no doubt will recall that when we last saw Megatron, Sam (Shia LaBeouf) had rammed the All Spark cube into his chest, thereby destroying him. Despite this certain death, rumours have been circulating the villain was going to make a comeback. Director Michael Bay went so far as to flatly deny the rumour, telling Empire: "He's not in the movie".

    Turns out Bay was fibbing. "I've already done it," Weaving says, adding Bay had told him to keep the news hush-hush. "He's over in LA and we were working on the video split sort of thing and I had this strange conversation where he seemed to imply it was all a big secret. So there you go - I've given you the secret scoop."

    So how is Megatron resurrected? Weaving is coy about revealling too much, but does give a tiny hint.

    "I think in the last one, doesn't Optimus Prime pick up a little bit of, a shard of the cube, or the thing that's left, and he takes it with him. Maybe there's something there... but I don't know," he laughs.

    We'll find out on June 25, the film's Australian release.
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    So there you are... straight from the horse's mouth. Hope this helps, and gets me a byline on the front page!

    Selah,
    Sean Fewster


    Can anyone honestly say that they are surprised that Megatron is in the film? Hasbro have made at least three toys for him, doubt they would do that for a non-appearing character...
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