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July 16, 2009 - John Carter of Mars / Willem Dafoe cast as Tars Tarkas
Scooped on Thursday, July 16, 2009
Willem Dafoe has been cast as Tars Tarkas in the film. As described in Burroughs' Mars books, Tarkas is a four-armed, 10-foot-tall green Martian fighter. While the Variety casting notice doesn't mention if Dafoe will be filmed using motion capture techniques like the ones used for Andy Serkis to create his role as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings films, one imagines that the method will have to be used if the movie is to remain faithful to its source material.
Throughout his career Dafoe has had dozens of roles including twice nominated for Best Supporting Actor Oscars (once for Platoon, the other time for Shadow of the Vampire). He played Norman Osborne in the three Spider-Man films and is currently starring in Lars von Trier's controversial film Antichrist.
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