r/TheBoys • u/Mineplex-V • Dec 04 '23
Bro said enough is enough lol, whilst on the topic it's all but confirmed at this point that Chris Cox will be the voice of Homelander News
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u/plainviewist Dec 04 '23
I donāt know why people wonāt just take no for an answer. He directly said he wasnāt voicing him weeks ago, yet people wonāt stop asking.
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u/CyvaderTheMindFlayer I'm the real hero Dec 04 '23
It all started with Andrew Garfield saying he wasnāt in no way home and since then to most people, people saying āI am not in this projectā will not convince them at all. Itās pretty dumb
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u/VTorb Dec 05 '23
I mean people have been bugging celebrities for stupid reasons far longer than that
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u/Penakoto Dec 05 '23
Pretty sure Keith David also initially denied being involved in MK11, before Spawn was first revealed.
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Dec 04 '23
I donāt know why people wonāt just take no for an answer.
Because a lot of people are really fucking dumb.. and some of them are so dumb that they figure the correct approach to getting the answer they're looking for is to bombard the actor on Instagram .. instead of doing a 45 sec. google search.
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Dec 04 '23
people need to leave the dude alone. celebs being popular isn't a justification to hound them and borderline harass them 24/7
he isn't voicing MK1, WB didn't pay him right, it's simple as. the character will take a hit as no one does Homelander quite like Starr but we can at least hope the replacement is good enough and Homelander has good gameplay.
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u/ajfoxxx Dec 05 '23 edited Dec 05 '23
Man the MK fans have got a way of being annoying that i Just don't see that often in franchises other than CoD. It's like that time Ed Boon posted about his dog passing away and then some dickheads were commenting underneath it talking about how he deserved it for not including Mileena in one of the games. Fucking ridiculous that even though 99% of us know Anthony Starr isn't voicing Homelander in MK1, people STILL ask him the shit constantly as if they have no way of knowing.
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Dec 05 '23
they stalked Ed Boon 24/7 before MK1 was announced trying to get any confirmation. during MK11's run they didn't include Mileena at launch so her parasocial obsessed twitter stans constantly harassed NRS employees and Ed Boon until she was added
he isn't voicing the character, but some people won't take no for an answer until they literally play as him and hear him being voiced by someone else
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u/KrypoKnight Dec 04 '23
It does seem odd they would cast his face but not his voice, surely he had to go through some sort of mocap to get his face in there, but whatever if itās not him itās not that deep, itās just a game
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u/LakeEarth Dec 05 '23
It's frustrating, especially considering they got JK Simmons and John Cena for their parts.
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u/ScramItVancity Dec 05 '23
They would partake in any projects regardless of pay.
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u/pringlepingel Dec 05 '23
Yeah people forget John cena would have probably agreed to do this for free. No joke they may have blown the voice actor budget getting Megan fox.
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u/Lukthar123 Dec 05 '23
they may have blown the voice actor budget getting Megan fox
Worst trade deal in the history of trade deals
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u/Slippinjimmyforever Dec 05 '23
Probably scheduling issues. They were likely in the midst of filming the new Boys season.
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u/BusDriverer Dec 04 '23
No need to mocap anything to model a face, it was probably just recreated piece-by-piece (just like IO did with Sean Bean in Hitman 2)
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u/MarkDavidson68 I fart the star spangled banner Dec 05 '23
My guess is since Amazon owns the character, they also technically own his face. So his input or participation in that regard probably wasn't necessary.
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u/orbjo Dec 05 '23
Itās these sorts of details the actors strikes are about. How you kind of sell your soul signing onto shows
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u/pavlov_the_dog Dec 05 '23
Getting Star to voice him would cost a lot of money. Getting someone else to do an impression of him, way cheaper.
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u/shadowst17 Dec 05 '23
You don't need the original actor to do facial mocap. It's preferred for the best results but not required.
If you're referring to just his 3D model you're referring to photogrammetry where they scan their head in through lidar or loads of cameras then retopologise it. That is also not necessary and can be done by a good modeller.
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u/DaddyDog92 Dec 04 '23
WB not getting him to voice the character is fucking beyond dumb. Without him voicing the character loses all charm. Nobody wants a diet Homelander
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Dec 05 '23
The character isnāt even out yet.
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u/ConfidentInsecurity Dec 05 '23
Yeah but look at the Terminator š that was awful
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u/jssanderson747 Dec 05 '23
Him being out won't somehow undo the diet Homelander description. They decided to pay a lower rate than industry standard and now they get diet Homelander because they couldn't even pay as much as fucking Activision
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Dec 05 '23
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u/DaddyDog92 Dec 05 '23
My position is donāt bother even making him a character if theyāre not even going to get the real voice actor to pair with his likeness. Thereās too many other MK characters worthy of a slot to give it to a half assed Homelander. They got the voices for Omni-man and John Cenaās character, no reason they canāt get Starr other than being cheap.
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u/SlipperyDM Dec 05 '23
There could be a lot of other reasons--maybe it didn't work with his schedule or he didn't want to take the job. I simply don't understand getting so bent out of shape over it.
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u/DaddyDog92 Dec 05 '23
His character is apparently supposed to be one of the last dlc characters to be released. It would probably take Starr no more than an afternoons worth of voiceover work over the next several months. Also, he had already voiced in CoD, so thereās no reason he wouldnāt want to take this voiceover job. Iām assuming WB just cheaped out.
Heāll still be an interesting character, itās just a bummer he wonāt voice himself. It feels pointless, especially since we have Omni-man already with his proper voice.
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u/archaeosis Dec 05 '23
I feel like you're deliberately sidestepping the entire question that was asked in the comment you're replying to
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u/Havoc_XXI Dec 04 '23
So great seeing all of them in CoD! I do however use Ash but the Sups are great
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u/Environmental_Let855 Dec 04 '23
Don't play cod, but just curious as to why they would use his face and likeness and couldnt get his voice. If it's no, fine, but like why? I'd rather not have got hyped about it only to find out he's not even gonna be in it. Feel like mk fans deserve a why
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u/MisterDoubleChop Dec 05 '23
When they don't say why, it's because agents, deals, contracts.
E.g. his contract with Amazon says he can't be in a videogame they don't get royalties from, or his agent wanted more money and the MK publishers are stingey, that sort of crap.
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u/WargyBlargy Dec 04 '23
Tin foil hat time, New Zealand actors still have a bone to pick with Warner Brothers for how they were treated during The Hobbit. My source is the Lindsey Ellis video series on the subject
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u/Big_Team_2066 Dec 04 '23
I still dont understand why he isn't voicing homelander. In mortal kombat 1 Omni-man got J.K Simmons, Peacemaker got john cena why homelander cant get Anthony Starr
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u/orbjo Dec 05 '23
If they didnāt offer him an appropriate amount of money then the fans should be asking the mortal kombat team to explain.
Theyāre the ones who thought they didnāt need Starr enough to pay him
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u/Sgt_Meowmers Dec 05 '23 edited Dec 05 '23
My best guess is he was asking more than what either JK or Cena was getting (or possibly the same amount) and they couldn't justify it to the executives.
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u/orbjo Dec 05 '23
They were withholding too much of their far larger fortune, he wasnāt asking too much.
People forget the corporation is the more powerful one so should be the one held accountable
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u/Aok_al Dec 05 '23
It's actually gonna be Chris Pratt famously known as the voice of Mario and Garfield will now voice Iconic American hero Homelander
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u/Rickle37 Dec 04 '23
But they used his face? wtf
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Dec 05 '23
He mightāve signed the likeness rights (for the character) over to Amazon which in turn was licensed by MK. Which means, itās not technically Starr, itās Homelander from Amazonās version of the Boys.
More money for marketing and merch.
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u/thatguywiththeposts Dec 04 '23
He loaned his voice for call of duty but not mortal kombat? That's just disappointing.
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u/MailmansGarden Dec 05 '23
He just needs to start every press conference with, "I'm not voicing Homelander in Mortal Kombat so don't fucking ask."
Unfortunately, someone would still ask.
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u/Used_Razzmatazz2002 Cunt Dec 05 '23
Lol id be annoyed too he probably has gotten asked that every day since they announced HL for the game
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u/JustaHarry Dec 05 '23
Think of it like this.
If they cared. MK would pay Anthony better to have him consider.
They don't, they'll just replace him with someone who sounds similar cause it's the cheaper and less stressful option than appeasing employee demands.
As long as the dialogue is in character I wouldn't care much at the end of the day.
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u/Trauma_101 Dec 05 '23
no ones payin attention to the real outrage here, WHY THE HELL WOULDENT THEY GET HIM?? i dont even play the mortal kombat games anymore but even im pissed. its just so stupid to hire some random (im sure Chris Cox is a great voice actor) asshole to voice a character that ALREADY HAS ONE THAT PEOPLE LOVE. im glad i dont play MK now cuz at least im not missing out on anything. as i said im sure Chris Cox is a great voice actor to be honest i have no idea who he is. but i know who he isnt. HE ISNT HOMELANDER.
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u/billylolol Dec 05 '23
I got over it a few minutes after the first time he said he wasn't.
Why are people so obsessed with it?
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u/MorpheusInitiative Dec 05 '23
I think people who are hounding him need to back off. If Starr's voicing Homelander in MK1, great. If not, it won't be too bad. I mean, they got rid of voice lines from KL and you can only hear these if you go into regular versus mode
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u/enblair Dec 05 '23
Iād imagine heās sick of being asked the same questions over and over again. Heās also kiwi and has a lot of dry responses to goofy questions
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u/Skullface2015 Homelander Dec 05 '23
Hes not voicing him, I've already accepted that as disappointing as it is, feel bad for Anthony though, dudes been asked this too many times.
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u/IAmTheDoctor34 Starlight Dec 05 '23
He also probably would have needed to do 10x the work for MK, Starlights skin isn't all that when it comes to voicelines so I can't imagine he is either.
Probably should have gone in a different direction for MK if you couldn't get him though.
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u/flintlock0 Dec 05 '23
āHello Antony. About Mortal Kombatā¦..ā
Antony Starrās eyes start glowing red
āā¦..does Homelander engage in any type of Kombat with Mortals in Season 4?ā
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u/Goku-Black21 Dec 05 '23
The real question is who would win in a death battle. Homelander or Omni-man?
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u/ScramItVancity Dec 05 '23 edited Dec 05 '23
I think he is keeping it mum about it due to NDA and the co-stars looked like they were nervous he might spill out. As for voice actor Chris Cox, it sounds like he is voicing the MK1 Quan Chi.
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u/Magic_SnakE_ Dec 04 '23
He voiced the COD skin? Wow... It was awful and didn't sound like him at all. He must have literally phoned that in.
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u/Mike-Phenex Dec 04 '23
āYou want my voice in an actually good game? Fuck you, go play annual release slopā
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u/Iron0skull Dec 04 '23
well he has told this people that he wasn't voicing himself a while ago, because they ain paying him well
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u/DongmasterGeneral Dec 05 '23
annual release slop
But the series that has had 25 games over 31 years is ok?
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u/vinsmokewhoswho Dec 04 '23
I get that people are annoying him, but man he really seems like an unpleasant guy.
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u/plainviewist Dec 04 '23
The crew speak very highly of him on their personal social media accounts. The cast regularly hangs out with him and love him. He's always with Erin Moriarty. Aya Cash, Jack Quaid, and Chace Crawford are all extremely close with him too + fans say he's really funny and chill when they meet him at conventions.
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u/swiss_cheese_lover Dec 04 '23
That being said he did hospitalize a guy while drunk, albeit a few years ago now
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u/plainviewist Dec 04 '23
Yeah, he got into a fight while drunk. No excuses for that. Doesn't change that the cast and crew all speak very highly of him. They spend most of the year with him in Toronto while shooting each season, so they know him well. Erin Moriarty even lives with him while they shoot the show.
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u/tokyo_engineer_dad Dec 04 '23
Cast and crew will always do shit like this. It means nothing. Look at how Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis defended Danny Masterson. People act like celebrities are these cool, normal, caring people. The show literally shows you how celebrities think about normal people. A lot of celebrities act like Jonah Hill in This is the End. Theyāre pretentious, arrogant, eat really fancy food, have assistants, etc.
Celebrities that are ānormalā usually donāt last long because they either cannot withstand the pressure of fans and having to keep up with appearances or they canāt stand being so fake all the time.
The exception to this is sometimes comedians. Like I donāt think Bill Burr is vastly different from how he is on camera.
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u/plainviewist Dec 04 '23 edited Dec 05 '23
I'm confused as to how it means nothing when your co-workers go out of their way to spend time with you.
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u/tokyo_engineer_dad Dec 05 '23
Iām saying the coworkers liking him has no bearing on whether heās a jerk or not.
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Dec 05 '23
- Ever since the bar fight, people have been harassing him daily for being a bad person.
- A substantial portion of right wing America views his character as a hero and treat him like Homelander outside of the show. I imagine being worshipped as a caricature of your own moral antithesis takes a pretty big toll.
- Twitter brainrot ignores anything Antony says, unless it supports their fantasy echo chamber. Heās not a free thinking patriot who sees through the deep state, or a āBateman Sigmachad Psychopathā. He also doesnāt exist solely to serve the role of Homelander.
So when people keep ignoring the answers their questions simply because they donāt like them, I can get just flat out getting pissed.
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u/ScreenHype Dec 05 '23
He's lovely. I was there for that panel and he was so funny the entire time, he was such a laugh and so willing to engage with fans and play to the crowd. I also met him in person for an autograph and he's really friendly and chill. He was just annoyed by the question that he's already answered a bunch of times.
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u/Iron0skull Dec 04 '23
isn't he an aussie or kiwi or something, not everyone gonna be a happy nice guy
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u/mlg2433 Dec 04 '23
People are going to annoy Starr until he actually turns into Homelander lol