New Superman movie trailer on Smallville tonight

[Morrus]

You're not the only person who thought that. When I saw the trailer, I thought for a moment "Is that Anthony Hopkins doing Jor-El's lines from the first Superman movie?"

I'm glad I'm not alone! I knew in advance it was Brando, but was surprised by how similar the two sound in this instance.

 

[Knightfall]

Okay, now I'm all goosepimply!

 

[rom90125]

I do so like the fact that they worked Brando into the movie and am interested to see how the footage will look. He is the quintessential Jor-El. Someone at work today asked me about who the voice was and I said it was Marlon Brando to which she replied "oh, the fat guy." Youth is truely wasted on the young.

You hit the nail on the head. We had a debate in the office this morning after gathering around a 19" monitor to watch the teaser. It is a shame that people in my age group can't see past the caricature that Brando became at the end of his movie career. Despite his flaws, he was one helluva great actor....

 

[mojo1701]

You hit the nail on the head. We had a debate in the office this morning after gathering around a 19" monitor to watch the teaser. It is a shame that people in my age group can't see past the caricature that Brando became at the end of his movie career. Despite his flaws, he was one helluva great actor....

STELLA!

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

The more I watch that trailer the more I think that Singer is really going to nail this one. I think this will make up for the lack of him on X3.

 

[ddvmor]

Is it me, or does Brando's voiceover sound an awful lot like Anthony Hopkins? If I didn't know better, I'd have sworn it was him. Especially the bit where he says "They can be a great people, Kal-El. They wish to be." The way there's no pause between Kal-El and "they" is very Hopkins.

Just came across this. Dunno if it's appeared here before:

To recreate Brando's version of the character in his new Superman movie, Singer said in an interview that he used "a combination of unused footage, [used] footage and recreated footage. You won't necessarily see Marlon Brando walking around or reanimated in a conventional sense, but you will hear [dialogue] that you have heard before [and] takes that you haven't heard before and a rendering that is completely new."

Singer added that the Brando sequences are being created with "very raw material" culled from a variety of sources and locales. "A lot of the stuff was all over the place," he said. "A lot of the stuff was in vaults in New York [and] in Los Angeles. I got ahold of Brando's London [automated dialogue replacement, or looping,] session. I had very interesting outtakes, which are something to see. So there's a lot of material. It's great [also] to hear ... Dick's [Donner's] voice on the ADR sessions, on the raw material. There are a few really funny moments—we called them 'Brando Bloopers'—where you hear Dick and [an uncredited writer] Tom Mankiewicz in the background. It's cool."​