I remember watching that Re:Coded movie they did for the compilation and the Olympus portion was the most awkward bit, voice acting wise. Hercules, Cloud, and Hades all sound absolutely terrible.
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So James Woods is really in ALL the Kingdom Hearts games
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This was the early 2000s where you weren't allowed to have a mean thought about the US.
Hmm, Valley of the Wolves: Iraq was 2006 could it be that? It's not early 2000s though. Or did he do several "anti-american" movies?
can you blame him? Hades sounds like a fun as hell role and I'd certainly do it every chance I got.
Wooooow. Just wow. I'm thinking "people must be overreacting to something." But nope, dude's crazy.
Not defending him, but it is possible to separate the man from the character people. I don't think of James Woods every time I play Kingdom Hearts.
Get paid to go read lines in a sound booth for a couple of days? Who wouldn't do that, especially if you love the character as much as he says he did.
Yeah. I had no idea about this. Good lord that's some heinous shit. Jesus.
James Woods did the voice in the Hercules cartoon, like him or not, he found a role that was impov heavy, and enjoyable, so he's gonna hold onto it as tight as he can even if he is sinking.
Far from me to recommend anybody buying KH, it's a terrible series, but to the few people making JW a boycot issue here I recommend some perspective. It's clear why he specifically is cast to the role and it's such a minor part at the grand scheme of things. He is one voice role in a game that probably has around a hundred voiced characters in it. Basically any type of financial boon Woods is getting from this is such a small drop in the bucket compared to the other 400 supposedly decent people working on the game.
Of course if you feel like you still want to protest with your money, I get it. But nowdays with insane amount of people working on these high profile games the chances are you will get more than a few assholes working on any given project.
There are those situations where some of the main driving forces of the development are major cunts (not to name anyone but ya know) where this type of stuff might be more called for.
Of course if you feel like you still want to protest with your money, I get it. But nowdays with insane amount of people working on these high profile games the chances are you will get more than a few assholes working on any given project.
There are those situations where some of the main driving forces of the development are major cunts (not to name anyone but ya know) where this type of stuff might be more called for.
Iraq War was a hell of a drug. Dixie Chicks are still blacklisted to this day over speaking against it.
Hey. Whatever makes you sleep better at night.
If you are entertained by a piece of shit and laugh along with them all while they're trampling on the rights of others then you're part of the problem.
But hey, he makes you happy.
Would you recommend avoiding DQ due to Sugiyama? ;)
Seriously tho, fuck that hack of an ''artist'' for shitting on XI soundtrack and other peoples hard work.
I'm no expert on this or anything, but I don't think VAs get residuals on video games do they? So it doesn't really make much sense to not buy the game because of him being in them, because regardless, he already got his check.
Basically. I remember the VA strike wanted residuals but I'm unsure if they got them in the end or not. Either way, Hades (and woods) is a small part of the game that hundreds of people work on with a very large voice cast so boycotting the game/series because of a single twat with a minor role seems a bit pointless. Why punish the other hard working people who have a much greater role in the game (both on the development side and the acting side).
Now, if this was a Hercules game and Woods was a major part, promoting it, doing press, being used to sell the game, then sure, boycott it. In that case a scummy man is actually profiting from the thing and people are using the scummy man to promote the thing. But he's a minor roll.
I wasn't being totally serious. ;) But yeah, fuck James Woods AND Sugiyama. Most of Sugiyama's shit is recycled at this point- let someone else be the main composer for the series.
Fuck James Woods but don't boycott KH3. Woods will probably only appear sometime during the first 2-3 hours of the game since Olympus is the opening level. After that you will be hearing the voices of hundreds of other people, and seeing the love that the developers have put into the game.
He's also probably already got his check so boycotting the game will only harm everyone else but him.
He's also probably already got his check so boycotting the game will only harm everyone else but him.
I am one of those people who can separate an actor from the work they do. I know IRL he is not a great human being but he does play Hades very well.
Yeah, I was somewhat surprised he didn't play him on Once Upon a Time. But I guess that was a different interpretation of the character.
Holy shit at his Twitter. Never read his tweets or knew his political views. Damn.
He also put Huey, Dewy and Louie in Birth By Sleep even though they appear in games set 10 years later and he didn't de-age them or have them be at their Quack Pack ages in KH1 and 2. So really, we know who the real monster is.
Really? Is this a serious post? How you came to this conclusion boggles my mind.
I know he has his issues, but what exactly went down here?
Iirc Woods has it in writing that he gets to play Hades in everything. Guessing there's not a "we get to fire you if you're a crazy piece of shit" clause in there.
This is the first time I heard of Billy Zane being blacklisted. I always assumed he was recast for the same reason all the FF characters (Aerith, Yuffie, Sephiroth, Squall) were, $$$. Seems like KH1 had a bigger voice acting budget than the other games.
This is the first time I heard of Billy Zane being blacklisted. I always assumed he was recast for the same reason all the FF characters (Aerith, Yuffie, Sephiroth, Squall) were, $$$. Seems like KH1 had a bigger voice acting budget than the other games.
First of all, he is not a very pleasant man when it comes to some of his views on WW2 era japanese war crimes.
Secondly, he is deliberately using bad quality music in DQXI (and other games in the series as well) in hopes of selling tickets to his concerts. Not only is that just being out of touch why people attend concerts in the first place but it's arguably undermining the product other people have given their all to deliver the best game possible. This dude can't retire soon enough.
Him being blacklisted is one of the many possible explanations.
I personally believe he simply wasn't interested in doing anymore work. Zane's filmography doesn't have a lot of sequels and the first KH game had a lot of celebrity voice actors that didn't return.
I knew about the war crime thing but not the music quality thing (that's why the music sounded so bad when I played it at E3!) Anywhere I can read about this?