Movie trailers should bring back the epic voiceover Ever…
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Movie trailers should bring back the epic voiceover
Ever since September 2008 saw the passing of the legendary voice actor Don LaFontaine, movie trailer voiceovers have largely been outdated and replaced by moody covers of classic songs, giant text and/or loud sound effects. Whenever they *are* being used, they're done in a chiefly ironic manner.
Now it's 2026 and shows like Honest Trailers, having made fun of trailer voiceovers for so long, are starting to get a little less honest and a lot more nitpicky. I feel that now might be the perfect time to bring the medium back in its original glory. Imagine hearing someone with a voice as powerful as that of Jon Bailey (the voice actor for HT) start an official trailer for an action flick with the phrase "In a world…" and even recite the names of the lead actors in the movie so that they'd be easier for audiences to pronounce by heart. Hell, if the movie centers around women, let a woman do the voiceover for the trailer. I believe that if the film industry, having long been in a bit of a slump due to a number of factors, really wants to remain relevant in some form, studios should be more than welcome to give the epic trailer voiceover another shot. Great trailer VAs such as the aforementioned Don LaFontaine, Hal Douglas, Mark Elliott and more recently Tom Kane being dead shouldn't make a potential renaissance of the medium an entirely lost cause.
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Ever since September 2008 saw the passing of the legendary voice actor Don LaFontaine, movie trailer voiceovers have largely been outdated and replaced by moody covers of classic songs, giant text and/or loud sound effects. Whenever they *are* being used, they're done in a chiefly ironic manner.
Now it's 2026 and shows like Honest Trailers, having made fun of trailer voiceovers for so long, are starting to get a little less honest and a lot more nitpicky. I feel that now might be the perfect time to bring the medium back in its original glory. Imagine hearing someone with a voice as powerful as that of Jon Bailey (the voice actor for HT) start an official trailer for an action flick with the phrase "In a world…" and even recite the names of the lead actors in the movie so that they'd be easier for audiences to pronounce by heart. Hell, if the movie centers around women, let a woman do the voiceover for the trailer. I believe that if the film industry, having long been in a bit of a slump due to a number of factors, really wants to remain relevant in some form, studios should be more than welcome to give the epic trailer voiceover another shot. Great trailer VAs such as the aforementioned Don LaFontaine, Hal Douglas, Mark Elliott and more recently Tom Kane being dead shouldn't make a potential renaissance of the medium an entirely lost cause.
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