After years of not being heard from, this month's Bumblebee will finally allow the titular Autobot to speak. During a recent interview with IGN, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura revealed that Maze Runner's Dylan O'Brien is voicing the character, a decision bound to get fans, well, talking.
"Since we were approaching this as an origin story, we felt that it was appropriate that you got to hear his voice," he explained. "That’s the simple logic that we employed. The longer term implication of that is different. But the short-term implication of that is, since we really are resetting the mythology, essentially, of who Bumblebee is."
In Michael Bay's Transformers movies, Bumblebee communicated via existing media like sound effects and voices from the radio but di Bonaventura says that allowing him to speak "seemed to us to be the appropriate, to get the chance to hear what he sounds like."
It's certainly an interesting choice and the producer says that the few audiences who have actually heard the actor voicing Bumblebee have responded well to it and agree that O'Brien was a good fit for the role. "Dylan has that great quality in his voice of youthful exuberance, and also sort of trustworthiness," the producer adds. "I think those are the two qualities that we wanted Bumblebee to have."
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