I think now's a good time to play another game of "assign a face to the character", as I've introduced a few more characters to the story since the last time.
Oh, and I'd just like to say right up front that if I don't mention any major characters, it's either because I think the face they already have applied to them (Jimmy Smits as Bail or the actors who played Owen and Beru in the PT as Owen and Beru) work just fine for them, or because -- as in the case of Zull -- I don't envision them as looking like any particular person; it isn't because I forgot to mention them. =P
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I've envisioned the character of Raia Vaness as looking like the model Vanessa Raia (no great surprise there, eh?)
I admit it's kind of odd to picture a bimbo with fake boobs in the role of a strong female military officer, but somehow my mind's able to make it work (imagining her without heavy makeup, as taller, and with natural boobs probably helps =P).
Mr. Solo is, as mentioned in the text of my script, a yellow-skinned near-Duros. =P
Obviously, Mr. Solo is a homage to Sulu, the Asian helmsman from Star Trek: TOS. He is not, though -- is NOT -- related to Han Solo; the two share the same last name, nothing more.
And before anyone mentions it, yeah, I suppose giving an alien patterned after Sulu yellow skin is a tad racist. If any of you know a better way of making the visual connection between the two characters closer, though, I certainly wouldn't mind hearing it.
In my mind, the Mandalorian who violates Zull looks like a battle-scarred Jeff Fahey (a Jeff Fahey with a Cockney accent, BTW =P).
I see Anakin as looking like a young Leonardo DiCaprio.
I guess the genesis of this vision came when I heard that DiCaprio was considered for the role during the casting of AOTC. Later on, I noticed -- to my eyes, at least -- that his features (the shape of his face, in particular) resembled Sebastian Shaw's enough that I could imagine him growing to look like the older actor with time (which is more than I can say for Hayden Christensen; nothing about that guy's face resembles Shaw's in the least and never will).
In the end, when I came to the conclusion that I just couldn't imagine my Anakin looking or sounding anything like Hayden, I chose to base him on Leo instead.
I thought It'd be interesting if I patterned -- at least some -- of the Tusken Raiders in my script after the guys in this image. Perhaps they're a different kind of Tusken -- a more feral branch of the species -- or just members of a different tribe than the one seen in Star Wars.
As most of you have no doubt realized, the "dark warrior" that Obi-Wan encounters in his flashback during his first fight with the Sand People is patterned after Darth Maul.
In my universe, the character wears black robes with red trim like in this image, and has perfect white teeth (a deliberate reversal of how the character's teeth were depicted in TPM).
Oh, and before anyone asks, the character doesn't go by "Darth Maul" in my continuity. "Darth" is not a title anyone -- Sith or otherwise -- uses in my universe.
Once again the TPM concept art inspires the visuals of my SW Universe. =P
This is basically how I imagine Qui-Gon -- the Jedi apprentice Ben keeps having flashbacks and nightmares about -- to look like (just picture a sixteen-year-old Liam Neeson with that hair, and the image is complete ;-)).
Nellith is basically Brooke Shields with magenta hair, fuschia eyes, and no makeup.
I picture Craetorius as looking like Jackie Earle Haley with red-pink skin and a whole lot of nasty facial scars (no -- not like with his Freddy Krueger; that look is so goddamn stupid and I would never pattern any character's appearance after it (I am so glad I have never seen the ANOES remake, BTW)).
That tall humanoid in the hooded, black robe who directs Obi-Wan over to the dark side cave in his dream? Yeah, this one isn't hard to figure out ... ;-)