Advent Children Release Date and Cast
After waiting and waiting and resisting a Bittorrent download, Final Fantasy Fans can finally rejoice on April 25, 2006, when [I]Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children[/I], Square-Enix?s first installment in their [I]Compilation of Final Fantasy VII[/I] series, and the second Final Fantasy movie (after the flop, [I]Spirits Within[/I]) hits stores. [I]Advent Children[/I] will come in a two-disk set which comes with special features including ?The Making of Advent Children,? special footage from the Venice Film Festival, deleted scenes, and a sneak peak at future Compilation installments. Fans will also be pleased to discover that Square-Enix brought together a quality group of voice actors (for the main cast), listed below, but the fanboy anime elitists will be disappointed in how there is no word on a Japanese voice option.
Voice Actors:
? Cloud Strife: Steve Burton (Cloud in Kingdom Hearts 1&2)
? Tifa Lockhart: Rachael Leigh Cook (Into the West, Las Vegas TV series)
? Kadaj: Steve Staley (Arc in Arc the Lad, Neji Hyuuga in the Naruto animated series)
? Rufus Shinra: Wally Wingert (Big John from Crimson Skies, Remiel from Tales of Symphonia)
? Reno: Quinton Flynn (Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 2, Isaaru from FFX and FFX-2)
? Rude: Crispin Freeman (Albedo from Xenosaga, Siegfried from Soul Calibur 3)
? Yazoo: Dave Wittenberg (Bat from Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, Sora from .hack//Quarantine)
? Loz: Fred Tatasciore (Agent Johnson from The Matrix: Path of Neo, Michael Eisner from Family Guy)
? Vincent Valentine: Steve Blum (Ares from God of War, Wolverine from Xmen Legends 2)
? Barett Wallace: Beau Billingslea (Mark and Jim from Resident Evil Outbreak, Cao Ren and Dian Wei from Dynasty Warriors)
? Cid Highwind: Chris Edgerly (many, many voices from Everquest 2, Lt. Col. Kanazawa from Project Snowblind)
? Yuffie Kisaragi: Christy Romano (Yuffie in Kingdom Hearts 1&2, Kim from Kimpossible)
? Cait Sith: Gregg Ellis (Disciple from Star Wars: KOTOR 2, Ty from Ty the Tasmanian Tiger)
? Red XIII: Liam O’Brien (Gaara of the Hidden Sand from Naruto, Dion Landers from Star Ocean: Til the End of Time)
? Reeve: Jamieson Price (Lu Bu from Dynasty Warriors, Wittcomb from Star Ocean: Til the End of Time)
? Tseng: Ryun Yu (Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven)
? Elena: Bettina Bush (Gloria from Madagascar)
? Marlene: Wallace Grace Rolek (Children?s Voices)
? Denzel: Benjamin Bryan (Odds-and-Ends characters from Without a Trace, CSI, Everybody Hates Chris and more)
? Zack: Rick Gomez (Gippal from FFX-2)
? Aerith Gainsborough: Mena Suvari (Aerith from Kingdom Hearts 2)
? Sephiroth: George Newbern (Nooj from FFX-2, Superman from Justice League animated series)
