OT- Honour Harrington movie

[Baron Munchausen]

dogscoff said:
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.)

Honor Harrington picks up quite a few 'scars' herself during the series. I wonder if they'll follow the books and have her wearing an eye-patch and artificial limb?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Well, if they don't, there's going to be an awfull lot of angry people.

Plus, DW isn't exactly a starving artist - I'm pretty sure the studio would have difficulty presuring him.

[El_Phil]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Plus, DW isn't exactly a starving artist - I'm pretty sure the studio would have difficulty presuring him.

I remember reading a line in a Puzo novel. Someone had asked a charahter how he bribed cops and judges to let him deal drugs. He replied you just find out their annual salary and then offer them five times that plus bonuses.

And in the scheme of things a 'huge' cheque for DW isn't going to be alot of money compared to the sfx budget. Throw in a promise of a % of earnings (gross if he's naive, net if ne's not) and voila! You've brought yourself an author.

[Baron Munchausen]

Actually, if he's naive he'll accept a percentage of the profits like Stan Lee did for the Spiderman movies. It's amazing that anyone in the general public, let alone the publishing business, could be so clueless that he wouldn't know movies never make a 'profit'... but Stan Lee didn't and he had to go to court to make Sony share some of the money from the Spiderman movies when he realized his share of the 'profit' was useless.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The difficulty is that you can ultimatly only bribe someone who's willing to be bribed.

I don't know if DW fits that catagory or not, though. However, he seems to pick up good friends.

[Siirenias]

Remember that, via his writings, DW seems a bit skeptical of the media as a whole. I just love how Andrew LaFollet stares down a newsie in Fields of Dishonor

[Phoenix-D]

I'd hope they get up to Flag In Exile just to see if they have the balls to do the duel the way its done in the book. A nice lead in, a bit of standoff and..its over.