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NEWS: Trigun Film Gets North American Theatrical Release

Despite the fact Jeff Nimoy won't reprise his role as Wolfwood, does anyone find it amusing that Brad Hawkins is in this? Once you noticed his past role, just having him in the same vicinity with Bosch just makes this more fun!

It almost feels petty to admit this, but if the original cast doesn't return, my interest in the film will be substantially diminished. Johnny Yong Bosch as Vash the Stampede is essential, but I rate the other leads, especially Jeff Nimoy and Lia Sargent, nearly as high. The cast given above features excellent voices, but if the originals aren't there, it might not strike those sweet, nostalgic chords that are a lot of the appeal to me of Badlands Rumble.

Hate to break it to everyone, but it looks like FUNi is not getting all of the original cast.

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Johnny Yong Bosch as Vash the Stampede Brad Hawkins as Nicholas D. Wolfwood Luci Christian as Meryl Stryfe Trina Nishimura as Milly Thompson

This was on ANN's Trigun's movie page. Looks like Hawkins, Cristian, and Nishimura are replacing Jeff Nimoy, Dorothy Melendrez, and Lia Sargent respectively. I'm crossing my fingers that this isn't true >.<

Okay, I have to say this. I am one of those terribly inflexible people that doesn't handle change well. So, even if the theatrical release does make it to my neck of the woods (doubt it) I will not be going. I'm pleased that Johnny Yong Bosch is reprising his role as Vash. However, without the other original cast members, I know I won't like it. I especially have a problem that Jeff Nimoy is not coming back as Wolfwood. And I understand that it costs big bucks to travel just for a one time thing. But still...

That's true, if they weren't going to have to pay extra to get back Meryl and Milly's VAs they should have at least used the saved cash and paid the extra travel costs just for Nimoy to re-do Wolfwood if they knew in advance the other two wouldn't be available/affordable for them or because they weren't acting anymore or any other reason, the two of them would have been pretty reasonable as a compromise. Such a missed opportunity to really hit the nostalgia with such a relatively small cast even needing to brought back in the first place since there's only 4 leads, and something that's really added to the awesomeness of the Eva remakes getting at least several of the more prominent distinctive voices from the series back together, same with Funi's job getting the Slayers cast back together. *sigh*

Still, Vash by far has the most screentime along with the new characters and Bosch's Vash as usual should be too good to pass up especially after all this time (and as the role he made his name on) and be the biggest highlight of the movie and will add quite a bit to the movie. So I'm depressed but still a bit eager to watch it dubbed for good ol' Vash, I just hope the others (who I've all liked a ton in other shows, but obviously just can't behind here for obvious reasons) at least manage to capture some of the coolness of the 3 leads even if they are impossible to replace.

As Greed1914 said, as Bosch started to show up in some previous Funi shows like those and also Sengoku Basara I was getting pretty pleasantly confident he'd be back, so it's ashame they couldn't at least get back Wolfwood too since he's clearly been keeping up with the existence of the project even on his own free time. For the first time I'm a little more worried about what's going to happen with Hellsing Ultimate and Black Lagoon when we finally get to those new installments as both had perfect casting, and especially Hellsing with it's godly once-in-a-lifetime international cast, at least the voice director of Hellsing Ultimate seems to be working at Funi now since the demise of Geneon so maybe that's got a chance since he'll be there to personally push it as much as possible I imagine...

I ask a genuine question to those displeased with this movies English casting:

Will you watch this movie sub only or not at all? And if sub only do the Japanese VA performances hold the same level of importance/nostalgia as the original English VA's had?

I'm just curious of the thought process. Was reuniting the original English VA cast for this movie the absolute deal breaker, it's all or nothing?