Addressing his fans via Twitter, Mr. David Sobolov is ready to reveal a secret. But not yet; he wants us to guess what it is (or rather who it is) before the big unveil.
Announcing for the first time, is his involvement with the upcoming Travis Knight movie Transformers: Bumblebee. Mr. Sobolov will be voicing a character. But as we stated above, it’s up to you to deliver your answer on his Twitter thread. The actual reveal will come later.
“#Transformers fans… @ParamountPics has given me the ok to reveal I’m playing a role in the upcoming epic @bumblebeemovie! As of now I’m not authorized to tell you my character’s name. More news about that soon! Who do you think it is?”
Among his many work for the Transformers franchise, the intimidating voice of Shockwave from Transformers: Prime and Depth Charge from Beast Wars can be considered as the most memorable.
SaberPrime
You're right, he did a few other voices as well in G1.
Well he's still the first Beast Wars voice actor in a live action film… Live Action Transformers film that is, Scott McNeil has technically been in live action movies before just not Transformers related movies.
96megatron
Charlie Adler who is voices Starscream also voiced Silverbolt in G1
SaberPrime
Is anyone besides me surprised to get a Transformers voice actor in a movie who isn't Peter Cullen or Frank Walker? They seem to fill most of the roles with celebrities rather than actual voice actors and I do believe this is the first who has been in Transformers before.
Well Tom Kenny has been in the films and Transformers Animated though that's fairly recent compared to this guy.
And the guy who voiced the Fallen in the movie also did a voice for TFP but he was in the films first so not a returning voice actor.
Meta777
"It's not revenge I'm looking for. It's bees."
QLRformer
Congrats Mr Sobolov, welcome to Bayformers!
Fox13
Shockwave was always going to be Shockwave, they just used different names during production to stop them from leaking out (or, in the case of original characters like the Wreckers and the Dreads, they just hadn't been finalized yet). Sentinel Prime was Ultra Magnus, Soundwave was Breakdown, Roadbuster was Warpath, Dino / Mirage was Rush etc.
But yeah, even so, it's still amusing.
mnabiyein
Confirm David sobolov voice blitzwing
sideswipe3
I kind of find it funny that the guy who voiced Shockwave once is voicing Bliztwing. Since Shockwave was going to be Blizwing in DOTM.
electronic456
On side note, even if that was Starscream I can't picture David Sobolov doing a Starscream voice anyway. Most of his voice work is for characters like Gorilla Grodd, Lobo or Drax, which are basically characters with deep voices.
Lazerwave
snokoan
I think we all knew this would happen anyway I'm so excited I loved him as shockwave from tfp
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Lazlow007
More likely a trailer. You wouldn't recognize his voice in a poster lol Probably this line will be featured: “Did you think you could hide?”
jackgaughan
Hey I know that every other week someone says "Oh damn that means we're getting a trailer!" But this sounds like we're getting a trailer very soon, and the only reason he's saying this is because whoever he is voicing shows up in the trailer with a line by him.
Either that we're getting a new poster with his character on it?
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UltraAlanMagnus
David Sobolov @DragonCon on Twitter
He's announcing his role in the next 24 hours.
TheWarPathGuy
Yes…
Welker isn't said to be apart of the film but he probably doesn't use social media. Charile alder said he had no role in the movie.