[dogscoff]

I would be interested to see hollywood's interpretation of 'coup de vitesse'. Whoever plays Honor is going to want some martial arts training- preferably in a hard style like shotokan rather than some hollywoodised and flouncy version of kungfu/ tae-kwondo.

I've read the books up to about number 8 or 9 and although I'd make time to watch an Honor film when it made it to TV, I wouldn't bother going to the cinema for it. I don't think a film show me anything that the books haven't already done, and given the shallow and formulaic nature of the books, I find it hard to believe that the films would be particularly enjoyable, except as exploding-CG-dreadnought firework displays.

And what's the betting that they manage to write in at least one gratuitous shower scene for Honor?

And bring forward events from the middle of the series into the first book so that they can have a love interest?

And make Nimitz all cute and fluffy and goofy and lovable, rather than the savage, violent, razor-sharp alien mastermind of a sinister plot to telepathically infiltrate and overthrow humankind?

And make the Peeps EVEN MORE unrealistically evil than they already are? (My money is that they will all be equipped with not-so-subtly-inspired-by-USSR uniforms, along with villainous twirly moustaches and bad-guy facial scarring, with the exception of the legions of brave and handsome Peep officers destined for defection.)