Greatest Bounty Hunter EVER! - Cad Bane

Originally, supervising director Dave Filoni and series writer Henry Gilroy planned to create a bounty hunter called Durge, a character that was already introduced in the 2003 Clone Wars comics and animated series. Instead Durge would then be redesigned as a human character, but this exploration was short lived after the suggestion of series producer and Star Wars creator George Lucas to go Western. Lucas took inspiration from the film actor such as Lee Van Cleef's portrayal of Angel Eyes in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly and of Colonel Mortimer in For a Few Dollars More while Burton uses the actor Peter Lorre's voice as inspiration.[2][3][4] These characters' Western influences help to bring Cad Bane to life while still containing the features of the Duros species in the Star Wars universe with his own original characterization. Burton's voice would then be modified on the computer by the series' sound production team. While Filoni researched the character Bane, he happened to come across an unlabeled concept art from the original Star Wars trilogy of a gun-toting bounty hunter with a wide-brimmed hat and that concept helped bring the character to life.