I would easily put Willem Dafoe in the top 5 actors working today. The man just can not deliver a bad performance. Even if the movies he appears in can be mediocre, he is always 100% convincing to me. Obviously he is most famous to CBM fans for playing The Green Goblin in Spider Man , but he has a new comic related project on the horizon in John Carter Of Mars, along side X Men Origins: Wolverine alumni Taylor Kitsch and Lynne Collins.
AICN have a great interview with Dafoe, covering most of his major roles through the years. We will just be covering the Carter stuff but if your a fan be sure to click on the link at the end of the article to read the full thing.
John Carter Of Mars is currently scheduled to start shooting next January, so Dafoe doesn't know much about it yet, but he is "very excited" and he has "seen renderings" of his character. Dafoe is playing Tars Tarkas, a leader of the Thark race who becomes an ally to Carter(Kitsch)..
"I've seen a lot of the designs and things, and I've just started to do prep work now… But I'm starting doing [CGI] scans and things like that, but it's going to be a real full-on… Well, I'm nine feet tall with four arms, but, just from the scheduling, I'm going to do the stuff."
"Also, they'll use my face, but they'll enhance it in a way–both after and before–in a way that I may not be recognizable. But, I'm good with that. It's particularly cool, because he's a creature, but he's got this huge range of character. And, he does cool things in the movies."
Asked whether or not his character would be CGI or live action Dafoe said..
"It is going to be a combination, Andrew Stanton comes out of Pixar and the amount of research and development that they do on this stuff is incredible. And I'll be involved in part of that."
I'm looking forward to seeing some footage. Also, if you're a Willem Dafoe fan, do check out his new movie
Anti Christ. It's an experience! Not necessarily a good one, but well worth seeing.