Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181110034633/@comment-14909251-20181123004916

Phantomlink959 wrote: Monty was originally going to voice Ozpin, but they decided Shannon McCormick suited the role better.

Also, Monty didn't die to an illness. He had a severe reaction to an allergy shot. I mean, allergies are sort of an illness. He also didn't die immediately from the reaction. That said, if the casting choices with Oz's past selves were going to be the same either way then it probably would have still lacked the poignancy. Ozma would have still been voiced by someone else. Seem to recall they wanted Oum to possibly voice someone else down the road in addition to Ren since he didn't voice Ozpin. Were they perhaps interested in having him be Ozma then it would still be a bit poignant, but not as much.