I've introduced a fair number of new characters since the last time I posted an "Assign a Face to the Name" entry, so I feel now's as good a time as ever for another.
The carnie who operates the shooting gallery Siri and Corin pay a visit to is based on -- as the photo above clearly indicates -- the director/occasional actor David Lynch.
I rewatched Twin Peaks a number of months ago, and as I have a fondness for patterning the characters in my stories after people/characters from movies/TV shows/music I like, I decided to give Lynch a spiritual role in my story, patterning the carnie character after the Twin Peaks character Gordon Cole (whom Lynch played, just in case you're not familiar with the series).
Clone commander UIY-2249 is patterned after the Blue Velvet character Ben, who was played by Dean Stockwell (My fondness for Lynch's work shows yet again.).
Ben's character is an eccentric character, to say the least, so laid back and carefree that he acts like he's on sedatives. At the same time, though, he possesses a dark edge which lies just beneath the surface. These are qualities I know the higher ranking, non-Force sensitive clones in my universe would have, engineered as they are by the Clonemasters to have fewer emotions than non-clones.
The physical appearance of the "red-skinned woman" -- who I'm just going to go ahead and identify as Nykres Eikhan, a biological Sith sorceress of the original Sith Empire -- is based off of the actress Karen Black.
Nykres is very much a character out of a horror film -- and that will become very evident later on in this screenplay -- so it came to me to pattern her after an actress who has long been associated with the genre. I came to settle on Ms. Black, who -- while being rather attractive in her younger years (at least in my eyes) -- still had a bizarre, almost alien cast to her features. Such features would sit well on a female of the Sith species.
The young blonde girl from the flashback on the agrarian colony world is based on a young Britt Irvin (An actress I'm sure no one outside of Canada knows about. ;-()
Why I've chosen her to represent the character will be made clear in a future post.
Atha Prime -- real name Iain Cadmus -- looks too much like Ray Wise. =P
Yeah, I know -- he doesn't look very intimidating for someone who instigated a Clone War. That certainly worked to his favour, though, allowing him to rise from geneticist to CEO to ruler of an entire interstellar power with a minimum of fuss.
To make a long story short, the basic physical appearance of Atha Prime/Iain Cadmus was based on the appearance of Paul Westfield, a character who ran a genetic engineering program in the Superman comics.
So when the idea came to me to find an actor who had some physical resemblance to the character above -- especially in regards to the hair -- I settled on Wise (That he played Leland Palmer on Twin Peaks had absolutely no bearing on my choosing him -- none whatsoever. *crossesfingers*)
And as you've all almost certainly noticed, I didn't list anyone in connection to SGW-0027, the sadomasochistic Force-adept clone. JFTR, I have chosen an actress to represent her, but I don't want to say who just yet in order to preserve the mystery.
Now, moving on to something I haven't touched on for a while: uniforms.
This is the armour worn by your basic clone shocktrooper.
Obviously, the body of the armour is the same as that of the clone troopers from the PT. I changed the helmet, though, as I didn't want to imply a connect to the Mandalorians (That I don't like the design of the clone trooper helmets to begin with is beside the point). The helmet used in the image above was taken from a screencap of a Genite, a type of pseudo-stormtrooper featured in the TV series Andromeda.
When it comes to the armour worn by Force-adept clones like SGW-0027, it appears as a composite of the armour and robes worn by Obi-Wan in the image just above (only with white robes and cloak instead of brown) with a smooth, featureless, mirrored helmet worn under a large hood similar to that shown in the comic book cover.