Steve Whitmire has left the Muppets, Matt Vogel to continue as Kermit

[dwayne1115]

It's totally possible, but that depends how...erm, accurate to his last portrayal Disney wants the character to be. IMO, Eric Jacobson as Guy Smiley was a drastic change in the character's voice. Obviously, now we've adjusted, but it was quite a shock to the senses when his new voice first debuted. I feel like it would be the same with the Newsman (no offense to Eric).

Well sadly the newsman is one that has been passed around a little. First Brian and then Steve, so it could go to anyone.
I do wonder how all of this recasting went down. Where there auditions held or did the other prefomers just say I'll do this one and so on?

 

[D'Snowth]

Bill is really the only one who can really nail certain voices of Jim's, like the deep, raspy voice of Rowlf or Dr. Teeth. Eric, I felt, never really quite got the voice right for Guy Smiley - it sounds a little too much like an excitable version of his Bert/Fozzie voice. Likewise, Steve's Newsman sounds more like Steve speaking from the back of his throat. Same with Dave's Waldorf, it sounds more like a typical Dave Goelz voice than Waldorf.

But again, as I've said many times before, Jim's voices are going to be hard to replicate because they were so much his voice.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Eric as Guy Smiley is okay.

Just kinda nasally and watered-down.

 

[ErinAardvark]

I think Bill's Rowlf sounds a bit too similar to his Bobo voice, but he is a dead-on Dr. Teeth. Though I also think he'd do a good Newsman.

 

[D'Snowth]

Still, I'm blown away by almost exactly like Caroll Eric sounds as Oscar - I didn't think Oscar's would be an easy voice to recreate . . . I mean even though I'm used to Matt's Big Bird, I still think it sounds a little more like the transitional period Caroll went through in transforming Big Bird from the country bumpkin to the six-year-old kid we know and love him as.

 

[jeremystclair]

Wikipedia updated the castings david rudman doing beaker bil baretta doing link hogthrob andy pig peter linz doing rizzo lips and muppet newsman

 

[Muppetboy09]

Wikipedia updated the castings david rudman doing beaker bil baretta doing link hogthrob andy pig peter linz doing rizzo lips and muppet newsman

Even though I could believe that, Wikipedia isn't a reliable source all the time. Anyone can update the page.

 

[Censored]

Not sure if it's true, but it would sure be nice to have all the characters taken care of for future projects!

 

[Oscarfan]

When it comes to Muppet info, trust Muppet Wiki, not Wikipedia.

 

[Censored]

When it comes to Muppet info, trust Muppet Wiki, not Wikipedia.

Something that anyone cannot edit. Er...wait a minute...