>>Love the tone of voice. Sort of Orson Welles meets Spider Jerusalem.
>
>I think I was at least subconsciously going for Welles with a bit of
>the late Don LaFontaine ("In a world...") and some of the
>delivery, if not the timbre (I don't have the requisite raspy
>overtone) of Ashton Smith, who narrated the first few seasons of
>National Geographic's Seconds from Disaster and has been
>turning up on a lot of action movie trailers since LaFontaine died.
>
>I thought about doing it all in my
>Johnny-Depp-as-Hunter-S.-Thompson from Manhunt, but the darker,
>slower style seemed to fit better. :)

As the aforementioned Mr. Jerusalem is not drastically unlike Hunter, I think a little Thompson (in particular, the Hombre de Fierro line and the closer) may have slipped in anyway. :)