There are some ideas whose time has simply come and you had best just get out of the DAMN WAY!!! One of those ideas is to have noted Shakespearean and genre actor Brian Blessed voice the directions for a GPS/Sat Nav application…and by “voice” I mean “YELL”

Blessed, who has played such roles as Vultan, King of the Hawkmen in Flash Gordon, Boss Nass in the Star Wars films and soon will play Odin in Thor has the ideal voice and temperament to help ANYONE find their way on the roads…OR ELSE!

This entire concept is the brainchild of a man named Richard Gardner, who created a Facebook group requesting that Brian Blessed record a navigation voice over. GPS vendors TomTom knew a hot meme in the bud when they saw one and said that if the Facebook group managed 25,000 members, then they would start negotiations to hire Blessed to do the recording. In the past, TomTom has had such people as John Cleese, Snoop Dogg and Homer Simpson record the turn by turn instructions for them, so there is certainly precedence.

When the Facebook group hit 12,000, Gardner pulled out the big guns and approached Blessed himself, who liked the idea and agreed to assist by being involved in a prototype…and the making of a promotional video.

Having been privileged to see Blessed on stage at the National Theatre some years ago, I want this to HAPPEN…SO…BAD. Hell, not only would I buy a GPS just to have Brian Blessed scream instructions at me, I would buy a whole damn CAR as well.

Check out the video after the jump….but don’t drink hot tea or anything while watching.

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