Since I'm bored and have yet to progress with the screenplay, I feel now's as good a time as any for another game of "Assign a Face to the Name".
Last time, I hadn't yet assigned any particular faces to the Sith lady, Mistress Taniss, or Logan Halcyon. Needless to say, that's no longer the case.
The Sith lady and Mistress Taniss look like Ann and Nancy Wilson (respectively).
Though I hadn't intended on making the Sith look exactly like her when I came up with the character's look, Ann's appearance back in the '80s -- large, curly black hair and dark clothes -- did serve as an inspiration.
When it came time for me to think about Taniss' appearance, I remembered Ann's influence on the Sith lady. From there, I began to think if the Sith and Taniss are reversed mirror images of one another -- black and white -- then why not base Taniss' likeness off of Nancy's, since she is basically a reversed mirror image of her sister -- blond instead of brunette. Deciding it was an inspired idea, I ran with it.
I think I subconsciously based Logan Halcyon's basic physical attributes off of Courtney Gaines' from Children of the Corn and failed to recognize it at the time. ;-)
Llomon the Trandoshan and Mahttoh the wookiee are based on Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau (respectively).
For some time now, I've wanted to write a SW story that featured a wookiee and Trandoshan living and working together as friends and partners, as the two species have always been depicted as blood enemies in the EU and I've always been interested in seeing a relationship between members of the two species which broke from that mold.
When I finally decided to create two such characters for this re-write, I decided to make them a homage to Matthau and Lemmon, who starred in a number of films together and were friends in real life.
As the name would imply, the character of Cmdr. Sheridan Jeffreys is a pseudo-hybrid of Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair and Capt. John Sheridan, two characters from the TV series Babylon 5.
As I didn't want my character to just be a carbon copy of either character, I decided to make her female and based her likeness off of Marjorie Monaghan, an actress who made a few guest appearances on B5.
Kurasij the Barabel is yet another character inspired by a character from Babylon 5; in this case, it's the character Londo Mollari, played by the actor Peter Jurasik.
Rustyk the Clown is an obvious knockoff of Krusty the Clown. As such, his voice would be identical to Dan Castellaneta's voice for Krusty.
As with Rustyk and Krusty, Mr. Eenyt is based off of Mr. Teeny, Krusty's rollerskating chimp. I didn't want to make Eenyt an ewok or dwarf wookiee or other simian creature, though, so I made him a nelwyn, one of those little people from Willow. By making him a little person, I couldn't then stop myself from making him look like Phil Fondacaro, an actor who I've always enjoyed even in his crappier movies.
Alice Cooper is Caryon Adder. Nuff said.
(And yes -- "Caryon Adder" is supposed to sound like "carrion eater".)