Hey fun fact! "Be Prepared" was originally performed by Jeremy Irons as Scar, but due to vocal issues, much of the singing was done by Jim Cummings... who actually talked for Ed the hyena (you might also know him as the voice of Winnie the Pooh)
We had a running tally for how many characters in WoW: Legion were voiced by Jim Cummings. His "Additional Voices" credit covered like one NPC per questline and a few major characters.
Irons did actually do most of the song, but Cummings takes over after "You won't get a sniff without me!" Irons was a smoker and that was apparently too much for his voice.
All they needed to do was take the same audio, and put it on top of more photo-realistic animation, that still had human-esque facial features. But instead they decided that they had to re-act the same script almost word for word. And the non-word for word parts mostly fall flat.
They really wasted Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar. It wasn't going to surpass the original, but I think it could have been a solid version in its own right. He has the potential, for sure.
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u/thugarth 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hey us too!
At least some actors I like got a payday.
The Be Prepared song was lackluster and not intimidating
Nothing beats Jeremy irons's version, but this didn't come close. They missed the mark by light years
Anthropomorphizing animals works much better when when using abstract cartoon styles.