There’s a Knight Rider GPS SatNav out now for fans of the old Knight Rider show (yes, I know there’s a (not awful, but not great) remake pilot out there and a series coming soon) that has the old KITT voice, but for the new series, NBC should make downloadable voices available for popular SatNavs free of charge? You could have Val Kilmer alongside John Cleese.
But why stop there? You could have James McAvoy or Angelina Jolie from the film adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic Wanted; Peter Cullen voicing Optimus Prime from the Transformers film (“Freedom is the right of all sentient beings – as is turning right 300 yards ahead”) and Steve Jobs as an iPhone 2.0 GPS addon (“One last thing…turn left to reach destination”).
Or you could get a collection of voices for specific places. For example, directions to the job centre? Alan Sugar or Donald Trump.
The only area this might not work is in getting porn film tie-ins. After all, do we really want someone saying ‘faster, faster, faster’ in these safe driving times?
The one I would love to see would be the classic Glaswegian tones on this page (NSFW as the Acronym Army like to say).
4 responses to “Celeb Voices as SatNav Film/Show Promotion tools”
A Val Kilmer satnav? Are you serious? Good god, no. The number of car crashes his monotone delivery would cause through sending motorists to sleep alone should legislate against it, never mind the fact that he’s RUBBISH as KITT.
I liked this comment at The Register, which points out that the one you would be paranoid about would be the HAL9000 version from 2001.
Daisy, Daisy, where do you want to go today?
How about some nice regional accents from around the UK