To tie this thread up, I’m going to play a final game of “Assign a Face to the Name”. This is where I assign faces/images to go with the various people/places/things in my screenplay as I envision them. I last played this game in the thread of my older KOTE draft, and a number of new characters and such have made their appearances since then.
The young Miko Hughes provides the likeness for the young Darth Vader.
I’ve seen New Nightmare once too often. That’s the only real reason I can think of for why I ended up envisioning him as the character.
Pernilla August remains the face of Shmi. After all, why not? She certainly looks like she could be the kid’s mother.
Kenneth McMillan provides the likeness for Chlorian Vader.
When I first came up with the character, I originally envisioned him as villainous; Shmi was essentially going to be his sex slave, and he was to play the Lando role in the story, siding with the Clonemasters after they invaded Geonosis for his own benefit. As I can only recall having seen McMillan play villainous parts, his face came to mind for Chlorian. I eventually re-conceptualized the character, though, making him sympathetic with an essentially good heart. Still, I retained McMillan as the face of Chlorian – perhaps just as a mental exercise for myself, to see if I could envision him as such a character.
If you were paying close attention – and if you’ve seen the Star Wars Holiday Special (like every good Star Wars fan should) – you’ll notice this character made a brief appearance.
Jango Cody is unambiguously based on Jango Fett/Cmdr. Cody from the PT, so it goes without saying that Temuera Morrison provides his likeness.
I’d originally planned to make him the murderous clone spy who betrays the team and strands them on Xuthltan. Almost automatically realizing what an incredibly predictable and lazy idea that would be to run with, I transposed that backstory/motivation onto Kathe Naad and made him a (mostly) heroic character.
Mary Lynn Rajskub provides the likeness for Kathe Naad (or the clone thereof).
When it came to crafting the character, I wanted her to come off to the reader as completely innocent and friendly, someone you could never see harbouring – let alone acting on – any bad thoughts. To help put myself in the right frame of mind to write that character, I decided to picture her as the most non-threatening woman I could think of. Ms. Rajskub came instantly to mind.
I envision Doug Jones as the Sith Lord Ludo Kressh.
The man’s thin as rail, and he loves playing roles that require him to wear extensive makeup/prosthetics, so I had no hard time at all picturing him in this role.
I envision Adrian Pasdar as the Sith Lord Naga Sadow.
With his eyes, jawline, and timbre of voice, I believe he would be the perfect actor to play Sadow.
Dr. Nida Reyem is based on Dina Meyer.
Laurie Holden provides the likeness for Lilin – the evil clone nurse who appears in Darth’s nightmare – as well as SGW-0027, the clone captain/colonel who was largely excised from this draft of the screenplay.
On The X-Files, Ms. Holden played Marita Covarrubias, a recurring character who was often reserved and stoic, almost cold and unemotional in her dealings with others. When I started developing the story for KOTE, I wanted to have a clone villainess who was just as beautiful and just as cold, thus Marita Covarrubias proved the basis for that character.
Lesleh Donaldson provides the likeness for Dahlia Karin.
While I don’t find Ms. Donaldson a remarkable actress (Suffice it to say, I’ve seen her in an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series and four low-budget horror movies, and that one episode provided her the best material to work with.) I do find she had the right look for Dahlia: modestly pretty with very beautiful eyes – beautiful eyes which can look both haunted and haunting.
Bruce Boxleitner provides the likeness for Supreme Chancellor Vantos Coll.
I’m a Babylon 5 fan.
Walter Pidgeon provides the likeness for Emperor Cos Dashit.
I envisioned Dashit as everything Palpatine wasn’t: tall, regal, noble, very ordinary in appearance, with a beard. It took me a while, but I eventually found that Pidgeon’s appearance as Dr. Morbius from Forbidden Planet fit that profile rather nicely.
Jennifer Hale provides the likeness for Aayla Secura.
All due respect to Amy Allen, but she doesn’t look much like a warrior woman – especially an unhinged, middle-aged warrior woman who bears the scars of battle. Jennifer Hale, on the other hand – she looks like a born ass-kicker. (Plus she voiced Secura on TCW, so there’s precedent for her in the role.)
Boris Karloff provides the likeness for Lord of the Sith Marka Ragnos.
I’m a big Karloff fan. IMHO, I think Ragnos would’ve been a great part for him to play.
The Slipstream is based on this piece of Millennium Falcon concept art by Ralph McQuarrie.
I’m a great fan of the Tales of the Jedi comics. As such, it should come as no surprise that I’ve included characters and locales from those stories in this screenplay. I’m particularly taken with Chris Gossett’s designs for Korriban and the Great Temple itself; I’ve tried to recapture his imagery in my descriptions.
The battlemoon is based off this piece of Death Star concept art.
The armour of your basic clone shocktrooper.
In the old thread, I posted my own design for shocktrooper armour. Needless to say, I’ve since discarded it in favour of this design based on Boba Fett concept art.
Likewise, I’ve rethought the appearance of Force-sensitive clone armour. An all-white version of the outfit at right fits my description of it now.
I imagine Anakin’s Sith warblade looks much like the one in this image.
The crest Ragnos brands on Anakin’s forehead is the same as the one Vader wears in this concept art.