for you Dwarfers (off topic-ish)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Just a public service announcement for those of you waiting for "Saving Santa" for Chris Barrie's voice - he is not in it. Someone else does the voice of Blitzen, not him. That said, it's a cute movie and if you can get it cheap, it's kind of fun for Martin Freeman, Tim Curry, and Tim Conway ... but no Barrie. :-/

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[bayliss.livejournal.com]

really.... well, glad I haven't watched it yet.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

How annoying for you. :/

[kronette.livejournal.com]

Seriously? But even Seb said it a few weeks ago: http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/news/2013/10/18/christmas-barrie/
and the official distributor page still lists him: http://www.gateway-films.com/future-projects.php?film=saving-santa

I wonder if it was just changed for American audiences? Which would suck greatly. Maybe that's why Amazon was telling me that there was an issue with my credit card. It was warning me not to rent it?

[merzky-nadsat.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That sucks. I would watch it for Martin Freeman and Tim Curry though. But I won't go out of my way. We'll have to make up for that with Holiday themed fic I suppose. :)

[shaggi-fox.livejournal.com]

My icon sums up very nicely how I feel :C

Are you sure this is the case?

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Well, after I watched it last night, I scrolled the credits and didn't find Barrie's name. So I went through a second time and looked particularly for the character IMDB reputed him to voice, and it was someone named "Nick Guest." Now it's possible that it being a Christmas movie ("St. Nick" etc.) this is some pseudonym play he has going on, but I took it to mean Nick Guest is an actual voice actor (seems like I've seen his name before elsewhere, too), and not him.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

If anyone would recognise Chris's voice, it would be you. ;)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Oh, Nat would know better than me, I think. But in this case, it's not easy to tell at all just by listening ... the character is a reindeer wearing an electronic voice-translator that's broken most of the time, so Blitzen really speaks gibberish. Honestly, it could be anyone's voice.

[missflibble.livejournal.com]

Perhaps tweet Seb and flag it up? Could be that the voice was changed for an American audience....

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Could have happened. It's not easy to tell at all just by listening ... the character is a reindeer wearing an electronic voice-translator that's broken most of the time, so Blitzen really speaks gibberish. Honestly, it could be anyone's voice.

[saylee.livejournal.com]

How strange. When I look at imdb and wikipedia, he's still listed as Blitzen.

[felineranger.livejournal.com]

Movies do sometimes switch voice actors in different countries. For example in Shrek 2 I know they changed a couple of small parts to English celebrities, obviously thinking it would funnier for UK audiences to have a voice actor they would recognise and relate to. He might still turn up on the UK release.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I know that's possible, but given the character's vocal limitations, I honestly don't think it matters who is doing the voice (read above for my explanation). I could do it and it wouldn't make a difference. Visually it's a cute part, but vocally, it's not much to write home about.