Advent Children gets US release date, voice cast

DeinReich · Post by **DeinReich** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:01 pm

From Gamespot:

Advent Children gets US release date, voice cast

Final Fantasy movie comes to America on UMD and feature-packed DVD in late April; Rachael Leigh Cook, Mena Suvari join cast.

It's been a long time coming for North American fans of Final Fantasy, but the countdown can officially begin--home versions of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is coming to the US on April 25. The computer animated film based on the Square Enix franchise was previously released in theaters and on UMD and DVD in Japan, where it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The 101-minute film was directed by Tetsuya Nomura and Tekeshi Nozue and written by Kazushige Nojima.

The stars of the movie's English-language cast were also revealed today. Steve Burton, who gamers may know as the voice of Cloud Strife in the Kingdom Hearts games, was a lock to reprise the role of Cloud for the movie, but two Hollywood starlets will also become very familiar to FF fans soon. Rachael Leigh Cook (Josie and the Pussycats, She's All That) and Mena Suvari (American Beauty, Six Feet Under) will voice Tifa and Aerith, respectively, in both Advent Children and the upcoming PlayStation 2 game Kingdom Hearts II.

Those who can't decide between the DVD and the PSP-friendly UMD formats may want to opt for the DVD version. The 2-disc set features a bonus DVD with a story digest, deleted scenes, a "making of" featurette, and footage from the film's debut at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, as well as peeks of upcoming Final Fantasy VII-based games.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is rated PG-13 and will retail for $26.96.

Brave_Hearts.Exe · Post by **Brave_Hearts.Exe** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:03 am

Yeah, its about time it comes out in english, sadly i already saw it in japanese with subtitles

trinigal · Post by **trinigal** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:11 pm

It's about bloody time!

They kept pushing back the dates so many times. I heard though this was because of the box-office bomb of "Spirts within." I guess they were worried Advent Children would bomb too.

Pie Row Maniac · Post by **Pie Row Maniac** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:51 pm

haha, Burton returns as Clouds

I'm not sure how to react to that except to just laugh

Heero_Yuy84 · Post by **Heero_Yuy84** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:00 pm

trinigal wrote:It's about bloody time! They kept pushing back the dates so many times. I heard though this was because of the box-office bomb of "Spirts within." I guess they were worried Advent Children would bomb too.

Not that pushing it back has helped. From everyone I've talked to, it seems the better part of the people who were interested in seeing it have already pirated it.

Yunacat · Post by **Yunacat** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:54 am

I didn't pirate it and i've already seen it. I own the actual Japanese DVD... (not the special edition, i just got the regular movie...). I made sure it wasn't a ripoff or pirated or anything...
(my friend lets me buy off her name sometimes..that's how i got it...)

It's a good movie..they REALLY need to bring it to the US for the others who can't get their hands on this stuff...

Elwin · Post by **Elwin** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:27 am

Brave_Hearts.Exe wrote:Yeah, its about time it comes out in english, sadly i already saw it in japanese with subtitles

Take what he said and add "x20" on the end...

El...

Tainted_Eden · Post by **Tainted_Eden** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:30 pm

YES!!! Someone other than Mandy Moore to do Aerith! *joygasm*

KagomeSakuraMoon · Post by **KagomeSakuraMoon** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:12 pm

Happy,but sad about the cast list....I bet half of them don't even know what Final Fantasy is! Or PS2!

Tainted_Eden · Post by **Tainted_Eden** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:56 pm

But the important thing is that hopefully more of them know about voice acting.