| barcah2001 | 31 Jan 2019 8:36 p.m. PST |
Any thoughts on the new Honor Harrington movie—just announced the casting. |
d88mm1940  | 01 Feb 2019 12:32 a.m. PST |
What Honor Harrington Movie? Loved the books. |
| Spooner6 | 01 Feb 2019 12:56 a.m. PST |
Ummm, links please. Google isn't returning cast selection. Chris |
| Katzbalger | 01 Feb 2019 3:35 a.m. PST |
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| Karellian Knight | 01 Feb 2019 6:17 a.m. PST |
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| barcah2001 | 01 Feb 2019 6:24 a.m. PST |
Yes that's it…but I'm not sure of the date here. David Weber on YouTube talks about a tv series. |
| Huscarle | 01 Feb 2019 7:45 a.m. PST |
hmm, that link is 4-years old & Evergreen went bust back in 2015. |
| Dynaman8789 | 01 Feb 2019 8:32 a.m. PST |
My main thought is Vaporware. My second is that it should be a cheap movie, take the "talky" bits of BSG (when they ran out of SFX budget) and expand it by 1000% and you have the Honor Harrington novels. Scene after scene after scene of pouring coffee (and hot chocolate) and conference room blather. How exciting! |
 28mm Fanatik | 01 Feb 2019 9:25 a.m. PST |
An HH movie would cost a lot of money to make and is unlikely to happen because, outside of its limited fandom, it lacks a widespread mainstream audience to justify the expense. It will likely suffer the same underwhelming box office performances of failures like 'John Carter,' 'Ender's Game,' 'Valerian' and 'Mortal Engines' in today's crowded release market. For it to happen the best platform for it is a TV series on streaming on-demand services like Netflix if the producers can keep the costs down. |
| Earl of the North | 01 Feb 2019 11:16 a.m. PST |
I could see it coming up as a possible film/tv show to cash in on the success of The Expanse. Although really once you get past the first book Honor is already commanding multiple ships and it grows exponentially from there which makes it hard to have a hero ship such as the enterprise, galactica or rocinante as most combat is fleet based. Politics abounds or course, lots of internal plotting and evil bad guys running things in the background. |
 Andrew Walters | 01 Feb 2019 11:24 a.m. PST |
I fear you are right. The choices would be to dumb it down for the market, which could work financially but would infuriate the fans, or maintain the spirit and intelligence of the source and make a movie that mystifies most of the people who haven't read the books. But *maybe* they'll create a movie that helps people who can't follow, say, her mental calculations of velocities and trajectories to understand and appreciate hard sci fi, maybe they'll thread the needle and have a smart film that makes money. If they can resist the urge to politicize it. I don't know. It's not my money, so sure, give it a try, I'm willing to be optimistic. |
| Katzbalger | 01 Feb 2019 6:01 p.m. PST |
It is a Reddit posting with a link that says April Fools. From 4 years ago. I agree with the Earl, though, if they were to make one, it would have to be a cable series. Rob |
| robert piepenbrink | 01 Feb 2019 6:52 p.m. PST |
You know, a film or TV series based on David Drake's Leary and Mundy RCN novels would also show intelligently-written SF and would let the producers have a "hero ship." Happens I'm very partial to the Princess Cecille. |
| Zephyr1 | 01 Feb 2019 10:42 p.m. PST |
Nearly everybody around her dies. Just a warning to actors trying out for supporting cast… ;-) |
