A Narrator for Civ5 - Who would you choose?

[TriMiro]

Oded Fehr is another thought.

He did a good job acting and narating in the first two Mummy movies (he is the leader of the Arab warriors that were guarding the mummy). He wouldn't cost anywhere near Morgan Freeman and James Erl Johns and he has already done good job in narrating "historical" events.

[sowings]

Originally posted by Unimatrix11
Stephen Hawking.

Seeing this response makes me think of the giggle I had when I saw "Macintalk" as an actor credit for the recent Pixar movie "Wall-E."

[Unimatrix11]

How about the guy, who seems to have done the narration of virtually every movie-trailer there ever was ?

Edit: Or: Ken Jennings (every sentence would have to be a question, then, tho. Could suck a bit in MP: ´What did you just discover ?´ every time. But OTOH, on picking a new tech, it could say, for example, ´I take Education for 6000´ (or how many beakers it costs...)).

[Alexander I]

Originally posted by Unimatrix11
How about the guy, who seems to have done the narration of virtually every movie-trailer there ever was ?

That would be Don LaFontaine.

"In a world..."

[Blaupanzer]

Alex I to the rescue. That guy would be great. Still intrigued by Sigourney Weaver, as well.

[Felch]

Billy West from Futurama

[Addled Platypus]

Male: Carlos Menceia

Female: Lisa Lampanelli

[Blaupanzer]

Lisa is an insult comic. Not sure how that ill-gotten skill would apply to Civ V. (?)

[TriMiro]

Lisa Lampanelli is hilarious, but I kind of don't see her reading "I am the lord thy god..." without several "F" words.

Sigourney Weaver is cool, but I cannot hear her voice and not run scared thinking aliens are attacking. (she would be a good choice)

Billy West: "Give a man a fish..." and he changes to Dr Zoidberg twitching for food.

How about that actress that did the intro to the Lord of the Rings?

[Unimatrix11]

Lisa L. ?! Do You really want ´So my people discovered Bronze Working, but we are the zulus so that turned out to not really be the best idea of the millenium...´ ?

[Unimatrix11]

Carlos M.: ´Emancipation - or as i call it: The right to kick out of my freaking country whatever minority that my majority doenst like...´

[Nikomakkos]

Originally posted by TriMiro
How about that actress that did the intro to the Lord of the Rings?

That would be Cate Blanchett.

[Brutus66]

How about Simon Schama? He has a unique, shatner-esque cadence.

[okblacke]

Sigourney Weaver is cool, but I cannot hear her voice and not run scared thinking aliens are attacking. (she would be a good choice)

She was excellent as the voice of the insane Planet Express delivery ship in "Futurama" episode...uh..."Love and Rockets"?

She was also...amusingly enough...the voice of the spaceship in Wall-E, if I'm not mistaken.

[Jonny]

Woha, thread necromancy!

As long as I'm here, though, I'll add my vote for Morgan Freeman.