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Star Citizen Features Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson in Its Campaign

Oldman plays Admiral Bishop in the upcoming PC space game.

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Today at CitizenCon, the annual fan event dedicated to PC space game Star Citizen, developer Cloud Imperium Games announced a celebrity cast for the game's single-player campaign. Actors appearing in the campaign, Squadron 42, include Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies, and Gillian Anderson.

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Oldman plays a character named Admiral Bishop; take a look at his in-game character model above. Click through the images in the gallery to get a behind-the-scenes look at the motion-capture process.

He is no stranger to video games. Most recently, Oldman lent his voice to the bad guy, Lord Vortech, in Lego Dimensions. The veteran actor also portrayed Viktor Reznov in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

In addition to the actors mentioned above, Squadron 42's impressive casts includes people like Andy Serkis, Ben Mendelsohn, and Mark Strong. Check out all of the actors confirmed so far in the image below.

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The crowdfunding campaign for Star Citizen started three years ago today. To date, Cloud Imperium has raised close to $91 million. A release date for the final version of the game has not been announced.

What do you make of the Squadron 42 cast? Let us know in the comments below.

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Glad to hear that Star Citizen is going well and I'm one of the founders for this game. Now that Mark Hamill Gary Oldman are involve, I'm totally fine backing this game up.

Oh and **** you Derek Smart.

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To me this feels like it's just throwing away money, and with a staff of 270 people now, I think that's just not a great way to go about spending the cash they have—but I'm sure they're banking on these named actors bringing in more consumers, so maybe it's not quite a stupid as I personally think it is.

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@amaneuvering: I am pretty sure you're basing your opinions without knowing a squat about the game funding philosophy. They are very very transparent with the backers.

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@amaneuvering: they have so many devs because the game is too massive for their one studio to do. They already hired a dev team to just create content on planets which was part of the stretch goals, and that's all they do it frees up the core devs from having to do this kinds of things

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@ccgod: They don't have one studio. They have 4 studios in 3 countries.

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With a cast like this, and no doubt a healthy salary pay bill to match it, I am somewhat worried about SC's future.

It's great that they want to bring back the epic stories of Wing Commander but imo this money had better been spent on actual mission design and gameplay. I don't want to go back to the 'Watch a 10 min video and then finish a 4 min mission' style gameplay of WC3 and 4.

Back then we didn't know any better, today we should expect more.

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Makes me think of Wing Commander again. Wasn't both Rhys-Davies and Hamill in one (or more) of those games?

Good times indeed.

Despite whats been said lately regarding this game...project..whatever it eventually turns out to be, I stil believe SC can be something unique and awesome.
However, I AM honestly on my guard, I never had full trust in this 'project' to begin with. Will we EVER actually get to see and play Star Citizen? Who knows. My money is on, Yes. But when? I'm not gonna be surprised if it won't come out until 2017.
Either way, the cast in itself is friggin awesome. Fingers crossed it doesnt fall flat.

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@PainMaker: I am playing SC since last year.

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What's an amazing even last night. SC continue to have my support and money. The game is still 1-2 years to finish... don't mind about that. I'm proud to be part of this community. Look forward to play the new modules they can release in the following months.

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@raven6666: You must have money to burn.

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Hello Haters :) !!!! damn y'all mad ....

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@the_master_race: How can I be mad? I didn't spend a cent on this game. I don't care.

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@nurnberg: Time is money and people spend a lot of time hating on the game.. Thousands of dollars worth of time invested in hating on it.

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@nurnberg: why are you here then

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@the_master_race: Consoles Natives, what did you expect?

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@elitegamingguru is someone who is criticizing Star Citizen and the huge amount of work they are doing, a huge space MMO with space battles, if you wish to get involved in that sort of thing, and a single player campaign.

You can get all this for as little as $45.

He then proceeds to hate on people who criticize Battlefront, a game that is overpriced with no space battles at launch at least and a game with NO campaign and 1% of the content of SC. And all this for $60 (at least). #hypocrisymuch.

For the uniformed, it is suspected that this troll is a former backer who was banned form the game for abusing the developers. Please ignore him, he is the silliest of silly moos.

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@elitegamingguru: Derek Smart? Is that you? -.-

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@elitegamingguru: "The writings of the sheep people always crack me up. Go ahead and trash me you brain dead fucking fool. You are not even worth ranting over"

funny how much this applies to you

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@normanislost: Keep backing this game, CR needs three more jets to fly his fat stupid ass around while he shits in the sky and wipes his ass with your money. You pathetic goons will fuel this moron till he is so full of himself he explodes, or the game does from feature creep. Now, that is funny how much it applies to you.

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@elitegamingguru: who say's I've backed it yet? all I see here is an awful lot of pointless hate and no facts to back it up

if i didn't know better i'd say Roberts fucked you on the first date and never called you back

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@elitegamingguru: why are so angry, if you are not interested in the game then leave and never read another thing about it. whats your problem?

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@discodave1000: Oh ok then, I will leave and let you guys circle jerk to pictures and story boards while I go play real games. This is not based on any sort of console wars bs, I have a nice gaming pc, ps4, original nes, super nes and atari. I hold no grudges over any of this, I simply just despise the whole operation at CIG and that is my opinion based off credible sources and my own experience with SC. So trash me all you want, I am leaving this article now and heading back to reality, have fun in make believe land backers.

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@elitegamingguru: aha....I knew, so you did get banned. you silly little moo. and what are these credible sources....lol.

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@discodave1000: Good Job!

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@elitegamingguru: "I hold no grudges over any of this" "I simply just despise the whole operation at CIG"

yeah those contradict each other.....

"and that is my opinion based off credible sources"

not seen you link any of them

"and my own experience with SC"

seen plenty of those

I love how because we aren't pointlessly hating on the game you assume we don't play other games, if anything your pointless hating would suggest you have nothing better to do than work on this unusual grudge you have against CIG

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@normanislost: And you are on the other side of that fence, backing it up. Hypocritical SC fanboy nonsense at its best.

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@elitegamingguru: again who said I backed it? where am I backing it up? all I've done is point out how idiotic you are, I just have fun going after haters and fan boys especially when they are so easy to get at

for example weren't you leaving?

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@elitegamingguru: well, we are glad you got banned, we don't want any riffraff in SC even though you would be easy fodder in space.

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@discodave1000: not only that but once mods come out they'll be all kinds of star wars stuff in it

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Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city!

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People still fund this?

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@wtf_666: people still think this is a hoax

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@wtf_666: I did. $250.

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@wtf_666: Not really, no. The funding has stalled at $90 million for a long while.

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@Golden_Gonads: Its a 92 million now, it was 90 million just a few days ago, so they made 2 million in 2 days

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@Golden_Gonads: we only hit 90 mil like a week ago. its been a slow but steady increase.

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@Golden_Gonads: The drama around Star Citizen is only boosting the funding, last week, they had sold a million dollars for funding. Yesterday half a million, and it's likely today to be around the same. 4 Thousand New Backers on the past 24h (for the ones planning to say it's the same persons buying more ships lol)

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@Golden_Gonads: after the stream is has gone up to 91,5 (just now) so it keeps on going.

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By the time this game releases Kanye West will already be president.

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@saturatedbutter: didnt know he was running in 2016. good to know, anything to make him stop making music.

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@discodave1000: Not in 2016. He's running in the election after that, in 2020. He announced it at the MTV Music Video Awards.

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@discodave1000: ha, best comment I've read in quite a while :)

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