I was thinking about the DC animated movies that have come to DVD over the past few years and while playing "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe" on my PS3, it hit me that if done right, this could be one hell of a movie. Here are the people I see best for voice work.
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I think Jason Scott Lee would be a good voice for Liu Kang due to how his voice worked for Bruce Lee in "Dragon" many years ago.
Dina Meyer as Princess Kitana works for me. She's a versatile, underrated actress whose voice would sound well here.
Eliza Dushku tends to play the hardcore badass chick which perfectly embodies Sonya.
Keith David, in live action would be perfect for Jax if only he were a bit younger. Naturally, that makes him great for his voicework. He voiced Spawn in the HBO Spawn animated series, so he has experience voicing military types.
I like Steve Blum for Sub-Zero. He's not just one note. I expect Sub-Zero to sound close to Duke from G.I.Joe: Resolute.
Ed Boon for Scorpion is obvious. He's the voice behind the immortal words "GET OVER HERE!"
Bruce Locke played Shang Tsung in "Mortal Kombat Conquest" and the voice was great for the soul stealing immortal.
I'd expect Clancy Brown to use his Gorrath voice here for Baraka, or something similar.
Before you go "umm, isn't that Lister from Red Dwarf?" look up and watch the episode "Polymorph" when Lister loses his fear. Instant Kano.
Yes, I agree with the entire planet that "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" was absolutely horrible. I was watching an episode of Dexter. I was suffering a major headache (I had brain surgery in October of 2010) and I closed my eyes. When Remar started giving some bigtime advice to Michael C. Hall and it hit me: Remar's ACTING for Raiden may have been atrocious, but he SOUNDED like I would expect Raiden to!
Direct Christopher Sabat with a slightly modified King Piccolo voice and you have a perfect Shao Kahn.
Quan Chi is probably THE most sinister character in either universe, and I'm not just referring to the 23 character roster. Andrew Divoff does evil and sinister like no other, and I can see his voice coming from Quan Chi's mouth.
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John DiMaggio works well for the Flash because I'm hard pressed to find a good number of people he's NOT good for. I think he should be listed as one of the elites in voicework next to Frank Welker and Kevin Michael Richardson.
I really don't think this requires an explination...
Let's face it. When you watched Xena or Hercules for the first time, what was running through your heads? For the next chunk of years, could you really think of anyone NOT named Lucy Lawless for Wonder Woman?
We've heard David Boreanaz voicework on Hal Jordan. We've also heard Christopher Meloni. I honestly feel the Buffalo NY native wins the voice actor duel here.
Going with Tom Kane for Captain Marvel based on his work as Magneto in "Wolverine and the X-Men"
Yes, "The Batman" was a TERRIBLE series. It's one bright spot came from Kevin Michael Richardson's work as the Joker. I loved his "You don't know what Joker Putty does to humans!" conversation.
She was my favorite Catwoman and I trust her to be just as perfect here.
David Kaye is the man who voiced Nathan Hale in the "Resistance" series for PS3. That alone makes me like him for Deathstroke.
While he never has and never will look the part of Lex Luthor, he's done just about every Luthor-esque character I can think of. Who better?
See Batman explination
And finally...
Get Sabat (Kahn) and Duncan (Darkseid) to do their lines for Dark Kahn, then sync them together (example: Vegito/Gogeta)
So, umm, what do you think?