HookLineAndSinker gave the heads up to us that Governor Tarkin is now listed in the official cast list for III. Played by Wayne Pygram.

http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/castcrew.html

Sweet!

Here is our guy:



Looks like a good choice. I wonder if he has any lines at all anyway. Well, how come the older Tarkin has hair and the younger is bald? lol, they have hair regeneration programmes in the SW universe perhaps !

Cool! It's about time they confirmed him.

sweet!

This is pretty sweet news. I long suspected that Tarkin was in the film, of course, even if only as a cameo, but Wayne Pygram playing him? That's a good casting call. Considering his time on Farscape, playing an exceptional, multi-layered villain, that's almost like bringing in Sean Connery for that famous cameo on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. They're using a good actor for the role. True, it's a role that may not have any lines, but Pygram can deliver menace with just a look, and under heavy makeup yet. And hasn't the rumor been that the actor had makeup to make him look more like Peter Cushing?

All in all, an excellent choice.

I'm wondering how that cameo is going to work.

Unless we see Palpatine make Tarkin's aquaintance at some point in the film, the cameo will feel tacked on.

"I appoint you, imperial officer I've never seen before as the administrator for the most important weapon of the Empire."

about time

There were spoiler reports about Palpatine giving authority to Imperial Governers in the galaxy earlier in the movie. Who knows if that will stay though.

A little deader too.

I was always under the impression that those early make-up tests were bogus and done by a special effects company in California who were bidding for a contract with LFL or some such?

Pretty sure that's not Pygram, he looks like he need absolutley minimal make-up/prosthetics as is!

They should just make Tarkin a CGI character.

This supposed (and altered) makeup test picture looks like Pygram

I wouldn't doubt if they used digital effects on the face, ala Dooku double.

Here's a better comparison pic:

Notice the sunken cheeks, and the large indention in the ears of all the pictures. The makeup Tarkin has a nose that ends in more of a point than Pygram's supplied pics, however we all know how Ian's (Gandalf) nose looked in LotR. Also focus on the 'dimple' between Pygram's eyebrows, and his large forehead compared to the makeupshots.

I would bet the makeup tests have legitness to a degree.

And rightly so.

I agree. The makeup job on Chris looks much better. Wayne's looks very fake. When I look at it, I think Silly Putty.

Yeah, Pygram is a built, muscular guy. He's got Cushing's nose and cheeks, but that's about it. Eccleston has a knack for playing frail, skinny, and creepy characters. And he has a similar voice to Peter Cushing. I'm kinda disappointed he didn't get the part. But so what... it's probably a 5 second cameo anyway.

Tarkin was suppose to appear at the end of RotS with Vader and the Emperor. It would surprise me if he is present at one of the many military installations across the galaxy, or at the Regional Governors Decree.

It would surprise you?

That was the rumor but it proved to be bullshit when the first pic of burnt Anakin and the Palpatine as Sidious pic turned up in HS webdocs. Now Carl Cuningham seems to be confirming that the Tarkin pics were real too, so in short all those make-up testy shots were in fact real.

Pygram looks ok to me. I'm just glad they're deciding to use someone with flesh and blood. Guy's got a heartbeat, get him to the set.

Tarkin! Charming...to the last...

These pictures are fucking old.

No Shit

But the Confirmation wasnt

Did I say anything about the confirmation, asswipe?

No but you keep fucken stating the obvious

thats his job:

Hey, saves me typing that stupid acronym.

I think it's about time we had a massive fucking cull in this place. Pygam looks fine. Considering his role is likely to be nothing more than a couple of seconds long then i'm sure it'll be all good. They've done a great job with Ewan so why not?

Yeah, it annoys me when people care more about consistency than the actual characters and how they're ultimately portrayed. Like you say, Ewan has done a stellar job, while only faintly resembling the late Mr. McGuinness.

Bearace, I've PMed your sorry ass.

Cool. I doubt he'll have lines. The minute he opens his mouth and doesn't sound like Peter Cushing it'll kill the character. Unless Lucas gets him to re-do the voice of Cushing for the next DVD release of the OT, hehe.

About 12 months ago I pointed this out in a thread. If you do a little research it wasn't hard to figure out.

The company doing the prosthetics for Ep III is Image Creative who also did Farscape. Wayne Pygram was in Farscape. Wayne Pygram is in the Image Creative portfolio in various make-ups, including this one:

http://www.imagecreative.net/images/large_003.jpg

Which looks similar to that Tarkin test make-up pic. That is clearly Wayne Pygram in the Tarkin make-up, which is indeed a legit pic.

http://www.burningmax.com/images/Tarkin3.jpg

Wow Good find mate

Cooooooooool it all fits together now. The Farscape connection, the prosthetics company story. I can't wait to see how big of a part it is.

I'm imagining somthing along the lines of Tarking being used as an example of what Palpatine means exactly by his idea of using 'regional governers' etc.

dude, that was some detective shit...lol...nice work!!

I think Tarkin looks good and a lot like Peter...

I'm sure Wayne Pygram will do great job portraying Tarkin at least based on that make-up test pic. Looks good enough, for me at least. He has the same freaky Tarkin cheeks.

Maybe Tarkin's looks change a little with age?

Maybe they'll use CGI to fix that mouth.

Looks a little like Roddy McDowell in Planet of the Apes. That's no bad thing, Roddy McDowell rocks.

It will be interesting to see how his role plays out. I can't imagine that we'll see any more of him than we did Bail in Ep2. Again, that's no bad thing. I don't need to see an explanation as to why he got his position or whatever.

Dogg.

Am I the only one who doesn´t like this actor´s choice? That guy sure doesn´t look like Tarkin without that make-up on.

Just thought his eyes were too beady for Tarkin. I guess with an improved version of the make-up shown, he´ll look the part.

Why doesn't someone cheer me up and tell me the lines that Tarkin has?

Yup, he also has an action figure listed on the checklist on the back of the catalog that came with my Grevious' wheel bike.
Revan

True, very true.

All he has to do is stand there. It's not like he has any lines or has to act at all.

I am just soooo fuckin glad they finally announced this so all the idiots at other boards will STFU about whether Tarkin is in or not....

who gives a fuck who it is? its not like hes a major part of the movie. "GAWD you guys are retarded." I betcha he has 0 lines.

"Darth Vader offers you his protection"

The pic attributed to Christopher Eccleston has turned up on http://www.starwars.com in this article : http://www.starwars.com/collecting/news/topps/news20050311.html (this image in particular http://www.starwars.com/collecting/news/topps/img/20050311_2_bg.jpg), so its hard to tell *which* look they have gone for.

The one with his hand below his chin is the look they went with. That's a scetch of the Wayne Pygram make-up test. Although, it'd be cool if they could make a composite of the two, like they did with the clone pilots (Bodie Tayler's face & Temuera Morrison's face combined into one).