Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Dune” might not be out for another year, but the action figures from the film are already here for those seeking holiday gifts.Comic book artist and founder of McFarlane Toys Todd McFarlane doesn’t know if the film’s stars — Timothee Chalamet, Stellan Skarsgard and Javier Bardem — have seen the finished product, but as someone who has made action figures for decades, he’s used to that.
And every action figure is different; sometimes he gets to do a bar code scan of the actor, and other times, he has to rely on studio scans.
In the case of “Dune,” he had to use the latter.McFarlane talks with Variety about the creative process and time it takes to build movie tie-in action figures.
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