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Given the fact the Imperium encompasses a million worlds I don't think having a mix of accents is a huge deal.

The guardsmen could have an Aussie accent for all I could care. They just happen to speak like that on X planet.

Lol aussie guardsmen. Somehow that fits perfectly. Its almost as good as New Zealander clone troopers.

I must say... the movie looks AMAZING and the trailers sent shivers down my back it looked so good.

Keep up the good work and I cant wait to see more!

The Son Of Russ wrote:But i don't care. In all fairness, It is an English company giving another, the ability to make a film about their franchise. Everything i know so far about the background in 40k is that everyone speaks in high gothic, or in other words, latinised english.

Wildly incorrect, as a few people have noted.

Marines will probably speak the Gothic-derived dialects and languages of their own homeworlds (Baalian; Nostraman, East Badabian, etc.) or even specific regions of their own homeworlds, and the rest of the Imperium almost universally speaks variances of Low Gothic. High Gothic is a rare and formal language - not just like Latin (which is readily available to learn on Earth) but incredibly uncommon outside the halls of the elite. It won't even feature on thousands and thousands of Imperial worlds lacking an Adeptus Terra "nobility" (as in, high-ranking Adepts, not actual aristocracy) or heavy Administratum presence.

It's essentially a holy lexicon, more than a usable language, and is treated as such.

I saw the trailer for this ages ago and thought it looked fantastic, I'm really happy there is a full project team moving forward with it now.

The only thing that disappointed me was the voice acting as others have said; I personally think it would almost be blasphemy to not have British accents on everyone, but I'm a little biased I suppose I wouldn't mind others thrown in for variety, but I think the narration and some of the main characters do need to have British accents... It just seems to "fit" the idea of 40k more IMHO

I don't know about that. because many diffrent chapters are based on diffrent things, maybe they have the accents to reflect there "origins". Example (but also wild speculation): maybe the black templars have a german accent to reflect their templar origins.

Tibbsy wrote:I saw the trailer for this ages ago and thought it looked fantastic, I'm really happy there is a full project team moving forward with it now.

The only thing that disappointed me was the voice acting as others have said; I personally think it would almost be blasphemy to not have British accents on everyone, but I'm a little biased I suppose I wouldn't mind others thrown in for variety, but I think the narration and some of the main characters do need to have British accents... It just seems to "fit" the idea of 40k more IMHO

This is what i have been trying to say but failing to. I understand that certain chapters/legions have certain feels, as said earlier, black templars derived from A german look, but i cant see it not being in an english accent. Anything but just seems ridiculously tacky

The Son Of Russ wrote:

Tibbsy wrote:I saw the trailer for this ages ago and thought it looked fantastic, I'm really happy there is a full project team moving forward with it now.

The only thing that disappointed me was the voice acting as others have said; I personally think it would almost be blasphemy to not have British accents on everyone, but I'm a little biased I suppose I wouldn't mind others thrown in for variety, but I think the narration and some of the main characters do need to have British accents... It just seems to "fit" the idea of 40k more IMHO

This is what i have been trying to say but failing to. I understand that certain chapters/legions have certain feels, as said earlier, black templars derived from A german look, but i cant see it not being in an english accent. Anything but just seems ridiculously tacky

because the English have started exploring space already?


I'd assume that people who explore space already may be the ones who rule space in the future.

Sure GW is based in England, but does that mean that the whole galaxy should speak like a tiny island from one planet?

DIDM wrote:

The Son Of Russ wrote:

Tibbsy wrote:I saw the trailer for this ages ago and thought it looked fantastic, I'm really happy there is a full project team moving forward with it now.

The only thing that disappointed me was the voice acting as others have said; I personally think it would almost be blasphemy to not have British accents on everyone, but I'm a little biased I suppose I wouldn't mind others thrown in for variety, but I think the narration and some of the main characters do need to have British accents... It just seems to "fit" the idea of 40k more IMHO

This is what i have been trying to say but failing to. I understand that certain chapters/legions have certain feels, as said earlier, black templars derived from A german look, but i cant see it not being in an english accent. Anything but just seems ridiculously tacky

because the English have started exploring space already?


I'd assume that people who explore space already may be the ones who rule space in the future.

Sure GW is based in England, but does that mean that the whole galaxy should speak like a tiny island from one planet?

Don't see why not. Dr. Who has a British accent, and he's from space

treadhead1944 wrote:

DIDM wrote:

The Son Of Russ wrote:

Tibbsy wrote:I saw the trailer for this ages ago and thought it looked fantastic, I'm really happy there is a full project team moving forward with it now.

The only thing that disappointed me was the voice acting as others have said; I personally think it would almost be blasphemy to not have British accents on everyone, but I'm a little biased I suppose I wouldn't mind others thrown in for variety, but I think the narration and some of the main characters do need to have British accents... It just seems to "fit" the idea of 40k more IMHO

This is what i have been trying to say but failing to. I understand that certain chapters/legions have certain feels, as said earlier, black templars derived from A german look, but i cant see it not being in an english accent. Anything but just seems ridiculously tacky

because the English have started exploring space already?


I'd assume that people who explore space already may be the ones who rule space in the future.

Sure GW is based in England, but does that mean that the whole galaxy should speak like a tiny island from one planet?

Don't see why not. Dr. Who has a British accent, and he's from space

if you were to ask 90+% of the world about Dr Who they would have no clue who you speak of

DIDM wrote:

treadhead1944 wrote:

DIDM wrote:

The Son Of Russ wrote:

Tibbsy wrote:I saw the trailer for this ages ago and thought it looked fantastic, I'm really happy there is a full project team moving forward with it now.

The only thing that disappointed me was the voice acting as others have said; I personally think it would almost be blasphemy to not have British accents on everyone, but I'm a little biased I suppose I wouldn't mind others thrown in for variety, but I think the narration and some of the main characters do need to have British accents... It just seems to "fit" the idea of 40k more IMHO

This is what i have been trying to say but failing to. I understand that certain chapters/legions have certain feels, as said earlier, black templars derived from A german look, but i cant see it not being in an english accent. Anything but just seems ridiculously tacky

because the English have started exploring space already?


I'd assume that people who explore space already may be the ones who rule space in the future.

Sure GW is based in England, but does that mean that the whole galaxy should speak like a tiny island from one planet?

Don't see why not. Dr. Who has a British accent, and he's from space

if you were to ask 90+% of the world about Dr Who they would have no clue who you speak of

Dr. Who is a British production. This movie is a British production (I assume). I am fine with the British accents. Since Russia is the only country putting people in space, perhaps have them all speak Russian?

Not to mention the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is british. Now thats a real problem.

Well as the only guys currently putting things into space are russians..... lets not get into the whole " should the voice actors be XYZ nationality"

As long as the acting is good I dont give a crap who plays the part as long as it dosnt sound like some cowboy ranger or Ken Block want to be like in Bad Company 2 voice overs.

Some one like David Hayter as a Marine would be awesome

Again, I will point out that English accents are used for speech in 40k. Take the Space Marine game for example. Even the *lowly* imperial guard speak in english.

No real problem with the British accents. In American movies they tend to give "British" sounding accents to all sorts of fantasy or characters that are meant to sound historic. I remember once seeing this movie about how the Nazis decided to use concentration camps to kill the Jew, all those Nazis spoke as if they were upper class British citizens...

And don't get me started on Hollywood's attempts at a Russian accent, they hire some Polish or Romanians for those.

The X Files were also legendary, just using Canadians for everything. The French sounded Canadian, the Russians sounded American...heck even the Germans sounded American in that show!

As for High Gothic, here are some interested thoughts on that:
-Lexicanum
-Philip Sibbering's musings on the matter

In Hollywood the Dutch speak German.

But please, no typecasting, that's bad: "Templars should have Germanic accents, Salamanders should have Caribbean accents etc." is rubbish.

Oh yeah, even though the Dutch accent is so much funnier! Hmm, maybe they should use Dutch voice actors to do this movie in English, that would be hilarious!

I agree!

Hey everyone, thanks for all of the support!

Check out this video showing the sculpting and texturing of the new and updated Coteaz for The Lord Inquisitor!

http://thelordinquisitor.com/blog/insight-video/

Ohhhh, thats was nice. Great detail. Loved both videos.

I'm enjoying most of the models and animation - looks far better then what Codex has done. As for the voice overs however... pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me that those arn't the final VO's.

Interesting way to texture. Very cool.

Regarding voice acting, it is commonly mentioned in many black library books that people from different races and indeed different chapters of space marines speak different languages and, thus, have different accents. Low Gothic is the imperial language and is supposed to be required learning material, so most people should know it in this film. Seeing the film done in low gothic would be interesting, but cost-productive.

BTW, I have been following this project (like a few in this thread) since well before GW's go-ahead.

But, back to accents: all Grey Knights should use the same accent, Inquisitors should have varying accents, as do their henchmen, since this branch will come from different walks of life. Each guard regiment should have the same accent unless from a world of a variety of walks of life.

I, too, am worried about the voice acting of this film. As far as I know it's still only a 15 minute film, but should be well worth it. (Unless that has changed.)

That is my only worry though. I am very much looking foward to seeing this done.

Btw, this is from their facebook a couple of hours ago:

Lord Inquisitor wrote:Teaser Pre Visualisation done - around one minute
Now Adam Harvey will compose the music for it and I'm gonna render the footage and finish modeling the environment So progress is good and you'll see some new footage soon of The Lord Inquisitor. You can see this teaser as a kind of presentation for the new armor of Torquemada

DIDM wrote:

The Son Of Russ wrote:

Tibbsy wrote:I saw the trailer for this ages ago and thought it looked fantastic, I'm really happy there is a full project team moving forward with it now.

The only thing that disappointed me was the voice acting as others have said; I personally think it would almost be blasphemy to not have British accents on everyone, but I'm a little biased I suppose I wouldn't mind others thrown in for variety, but I think the narration and some of the main characters do need to have British accents... It just seems to "fit" the idea of 40k more IMHO

This is what i have been trying to say but failing to. I understand that certain chapters/legions have certain feels, as said earlier, black templars derived from A german look, but i cant see it not being in an english accent. Anything but just seems ridiculously tacky

because the English have started exploring space already?


I'd assume that people who explore space already may be the ones who rule space in the future.

Sure GW is based in England, but does that mean that the whole galaxy should speak like a tiny island from one planet?

And lo, the rulers of the world have spoken...

So what are you suggesting? That everybody in 40k should sound like a yank... no thanks.

BrookM wrote:In Hollywood the Dutch speak German.

But please, no typecasting, that's bad: "Templars should have Germanic accents, Salamanders should have Caribbean accents etc." is rubbish.

Caribbean Salamaders are a great idea,I cannot wait to model thier Chief Librarian Miss Cleo
The Emmmperah says call me now.

Eisenhorn wrote:

BrookM wrote:In Hollywood the Dutch speak German.

But please, no typecasting, that's bad: "Templars should have Germanic accents, Salamanders should have Caribbean accents etc." is rubbish.

Caribbean Salamaders are a great idea,I cannot wait to model thier Chief Librarian Miss Cleo
The Emmmperah says call me now.

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