Raymond Park is a British actor, stuntman and martial artist, best known for his playing the physical part of Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Toad in X-Men, Snake-Eyes in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and Edgar on Heroes.
A what-if scenario: rather than being bought by new line cinema, His Dark Materials remains a purely British/European endeavour and has more freedom in bringing the full story & its themes to the screen in a proper manner.