Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV role?

I'd love to see either Michaela Conlin (Bones) or Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter) in the Honor role...if only either one was 2" taller.

dreamrider

Here you go guys! A couple of hundred working film actresses 5'10" and taller. About half are too old or way out of the Honor's described racial type, but then don't let mere blonde or red hair distract you from ladies having the necessary solid acting and physical chops.

Ex: Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood) might be a good choice, with her own following fans, and some face and name recognition, while still being not too prominent and expensive for the project, though it would be a shame to color over the red hair.

http://www.imdb.com/list/NQruQ4RJZoM/

dreamrider

If you don't work at casting Hollywood movies you probably haven't heard of whoever will get selected in a year or two. The budget they want to do this at, and the fact that they want them to sign a multi-film contract, means that they are not going to be hiring people who can demand 15-20 million for a film. Heck, they probably would rather not go with ones who cost 5 million a film.

AJ would look good in a shower scene ipeven if she is a bit long in the tooth.

dreamrider wrote:

lyonheart wrote:
Apparently AJ wore an eye patch in "Sky Pirates" to test her suitability for looking like HH, but RFC was quite adamant at the time, ie well past a certain geographic location freezing over (not from global climate change).

You don't REALLY believe this myth, do you? Angelina Jolie wore an eyepatch in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow in order to look in character and tough for THAT movie, in the same way that she has been blonde or short-haired in other films when the role called for it.

I would be surprised if Angelina Jolie has ever even heard of David Weber. I'd be flabbergasted if she had heard of him in 2002-3 when Sky Captain was filming.

dreamrider

I feel like everyone is completely forgetting how amazing modern cosmetics and computer magic can be in making people fit in a roll while reading this thread. Just see The Lord of the Rings again if you need a reminder of how advanced modern character effects have become these days. Avatar as well was a gargantuan experiment in just how far movie tech has come as well.

Maddhawk wrote:I feel like everyone is completely forgetting how amazing modern cosmetics and computer magic can be in making people fit in a roll while reading this thread. Just see The Lord of the Rings again if you need a reminder of how advanced modern character effects have become these days. Avatar as well was a gargantuan experiment in just how far movie tech has come as well.

Yes, these effects are amazing, but they're also pretty expensive to do well. If you have a choice between using a well-known actor/actress that has to have a post effect on her at all times to look the part, and casting an unknown that can pull off the role without such shenanigans, what do you think film producers will do?

All in all, I'm with kzt on assuming that whoever gets chosen for the role will probably be someone the vast majority of us will have never heard from.

dreamrider wrote:Here you go guys! A couple of hundred working film actresses 5'10" and taller.

http://www.imdb.com/list/NQruQ4RJZoM/

dreamrider

Thank you for the list.
Some nice fits in there, like Shalom Harlow here
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm35297792/nm ... all_evt_17
She REALLY looks like Honor here, but she's too old for our "franchise ambitions"!

I'd still daydream of Jaimie Alexander. I mean:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2948911616/ ... all_evt_21
And I mean:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4133266432/ ... _all_sf_32
Well, wow.

Still, I feel the only viable way to do it is to cast a young, very young, relatively unknown able to "wear" the part. Doesn't even need to be an awesome actress, as long as "playing herself" fits well with what we know of Honor (TV casting works more like this, and it produced some AMAZING characters over the years).
Physical adherence to text Honor is not necessary, but I agree height would add A LOT.

Mind you it has been said that LOTR was set in New Zealand partially because of the spectacular scenery, but also because they could save makeup money when casting the Orcs. (Minor point - kiwis and aussies do enjoy winding each other up).

Maddhawk wrote:I feel like everyone is completely forgetting how amazing modern cosmetics and computer magic can be in making people fit in a roll while reading this thread. Just see The Lord of the Rings again if you need a reminder of how advanced modern character effects have become these days. Avatar as well was a gargantuan experiment in just how far movie tech has come as well.

Daryl wrote:Mind you it has been said that LOTR was set in New Zealand partially because of the spectacular scenery, but also because they could save makeup money when casting the Orcs. (Minor point - kiwis and aussies do enjoy winding each other up).

Maddhawk wrote:I feel like everyone is completely forgetting how amazing modern cosmetics and computer magic can be in making people fit in a roll while reading this thread. Just see The Lord of the Rings again if you need a reminder of how advanced modern character effects have become these days. Avatar as well was a gargantuan experiment in just how far movie tech has come as well.

I thought thatnthe Orcs were just Aussies without makeup.

Maddhawk wrote:I feel like everyone is completely forgetting how amazing modern cosmetics and computer magic can be in making people fit in a roll while reading this thread. Just see The Lord of the Rings again if you need a reminder of how advanced modern character effects have become these days. Avatar as well was a gargantuan experiment in just how far movie tech has come as well.

Don't the folks at Evergreen wish they had the same budget for effects that Jackson had or the Cameron had for Avatar? An actor is far less expensive than a special effects actor/critter.