| Balin Shortstuff | 04 Feb 2013 7:35 p.m. PST |
link
They probably started the process when they suspected the identity, and didn't release it until DNA confirmation. |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 04 Feb 2013 8:01 p.m. PST |
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| Pedrobear | 04 Feb 2013 8:03 p.m. PST |
They gave him rather kind eyes. |
| John the OFM | 04 Feb 2013 8:14 p.m. PST |
Looks like Justin Timberlake.
He should play him in the movie. That would be our revenge on all the British actors who come over here and play Yanks. |
| Balin Shortstuff | 04 Feb 2013 8:21 p.m. PST |
Wasn't Kevin Costner playing Robin Hood bad enough? |
| John the OFM | 04 Feb 2013 8:52 p.m. PST |
Actually, maybe Conan O'Brien… |
| Pijlie | 04 Feb 2013 11:23 p.m. PST |
His last parking place….. |
| Tarty2Ts | 05 Feb 2013 4:19 a.m. PST |
Leonardo DiCaprio I think…..it's the rosy cheeks. |
| Mr Elmo | 05 Feb 2013 5:08 a.m. PST |
This is all digital now, no need for clay. Given a 3D scan of the skull, the software probably did the face in milliseconds. |
| GeoffQRF | 05 Feb 2013 5:17 a.m. PST |
Rapid prototype printing :-) Wasn't Kevin Costner playing Robin Hood bad enough? "Rumor has it that Kevin Costner wanted to use an English accent, but director Kevin Reynolds didn't want him to. Supposedly, Costner would affect the accent when he was arguing with Reynolds, but not when they were in agreement. Costner claims that he was initially asked to use an accent and hired a dialect coach, but this was stopped (and the coach was fired) when he did it poorly." |
| T Meier | 05 Feb 2013 5:45 a.m. PST |
I wonder if any of these facial reconstructions have been rigorously tested, if for example they did any blind tests reconstructing from the skull of a person unknown to the reconstructors then checked it against photos. |
| Another Account Deleted | 05 Feb 2013 6:05 a.m. PST |
T Meier – Read the article… :) |
| Spreewaldgurken | 05 Feb 2013 6:19 a.m. PST |
Costner can't even do American accents well. He's twice massacred the Bostonian accent (Thirteen Days and Company Men), and done a horrendous parody of a deep-southern accent in the JFK movie. His agent should know better than to cast him as anything other than Midwestern Joe American. |
 20thmaine  | 05 Feb 2013 6:43 a.m. PST |
Amazing how he looks a lot like the well known painting of Richard III…. |
| T Meier | 05 Feb 2013 8:18 a.m. PST |
Read the article Ah yes, though +/- 2mm for 70% doesn't seem very good to me, how far off is the other 30%? I'm sure it's generally right in that if you were told who it was you could recognize it but I'd be interested to see the tests. |
 gaiusrabirius | 05 Feb 2013 9:33 a.m. PST |
Yes – it would be interesting to obtain an MRI image of your own skull – then submit that image for facial reconstruction. |
| 14Bore | 05 Feb 2013 11:37 a.m. PST |
Thought they should do this, and all in one nite |
| Robert666 | 05 Feb 2013 12:06 p.m. PST |
What a glorious rich history England has. A State funeral should be given to his remains. |
| John the OFM | 05 Feb 2013 6:34 p.m. PST |
As Queen Elizabeth said today in a press release, "At last, closure." |
| Jay Arnold | 05 Feb 2013 9:33 p.m. PST |
They worked from a digital template:
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| brevior est vita | 06 Feb 2013 8:35 a.m. PST |
Well, it is likely that the Disney animators based Lord Farquaad's appearance, at least in in part, on Olivier's portrayal of Richard III: link
Which, in turn, was based on portraits of Richard painted after his death:
Which, as others have pointed out, look eerily similar to the new 'forensic' reconstruction. There do appear to be elements of circular reasoning throughout this story. I imagine that things will sort themselves out, in time. |
| capncarp | 02 Mar 2013 4:03 p.m. PST |
According to the article, Richard was killed by a large blade cutting a large section of the right rear underside of his skull. The way I envision it, he was down on the ground with his head lowered--like an execution, perhaps, or striking someone who is stunned or unconscious. This, plus an additional dagger-like puncture on the back of the head--it's hard to see this as a fair and honorable fight. My wife, who has a fair amount of forensic training thinks somebody pushed him forward, shoved his helm up from the back, hacked his right occipital cranium with a frickin' big sword, then gave the last Plantagenet king a poke in the parietal lobe with a dagger or a buttspike as a coup de grace. Long live the House of Tudor! |
| capncarp | 03 Mar 2013 7:35 a.m. PST |
Oh, one more thought--the huge hack job on the skull may have been a hasty botched decapitation attempt. |
