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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by jchilds   » Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:51 pm

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OK - Reading this thread gave me nightmares...the kind of scary, disjointed ones that stay with you as you're slowly waking up. ><

This of course means I need to share with everyone. :)

The scene in question was from AAC, where Honor, Hamish, Emily and the 'cats were in the dining room at White Haven.

The Sandman must have been having a bad acid trip when he stopped by, because Honor was played by Snooki, Hamish by the Situation and Paris Hilton was Emily. The magic of CGI had Justin Bieber as Nimitz (with a stray thought that he also played CACHAT sans CGI. urk)...

Luckily I woke up enough to derail this from continuing.
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by BMeph   » Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:06 pm

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dscott8 wrote:Too true. How many people had heard of Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner or Gates McFadden before Star Trek: The Next Generation? Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint weren't household names before Harry Potter. If anyone was really going to do a Honor Harrington movie or miniseries, it would undoubtedly be cast with young, relatively unknown actors -- some of whom would wind up launching new careers as stars, and some of whom would be typecast in sci-fi roles for the rest of their working lives. I could see bringing in big name guest stars for cameo roles, but the main characters would be newbies -- if only for reasons of cost. When you do a cast-of-thousands epic like HH, you can't afford to fill the screen with big names who get big salaries.


Brent Spiner was famous for his work on Night Court!

Radcliffe, Watson, and Grint were 10 or 11 when they started those movies, very few actors become famous at that age.

Still, it's a fun discussion for me becuase I "cast" novels in my head as I read and visualize them. And I, too, think that Angelina Jolie would be a disaster as Honor, and so would typecasting Claudia Christian (Ivanova of Babylon 5) -- even if they weren't too old to play Honor in the early books.

Amended to note that you would have to cast a lot of mixed-race actors to reflect the Honorverse's genetic mix. DW frequently mentions how generations of interracial relationships have turned the gene pool into jambalaya.


And that is why it would be best to do it as a high end animation. Now all you have to do cast voices.


Well, if we're doing voice casting, I think we can all agree on Samuel L. Jackson as Jeremy X.... ;)
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by BMeph   » Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:19 pm

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mvlachos wrote:for the early books Stephanie Jacobse would be pretty good (she's the young woman from the new True grit movie).


Uh, no, that would be Hailie Steinfeld. That being said, I think Hailie could do Honor.
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by dscott8   » Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:33 am

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Here's someone who could play Honor if she'd consider an acting career:

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US Women's Soccer goalie Hope Solo. She's certainly tall and fit enough.
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by waddles for desert   » Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:11 pm

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dscott8 wrote:Here's someone who could play Honor if she'd consider an acting career:

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US Women's Soccer goalie Hope Solo. She's certainly tall and fit enough.



First, what a great name for a goalie, and an outstanding goalie at that.

5'9" - could work. 30 years old this month - maybe, but how old by the time anything ever gets done.

If she can act, a little make-up to make the eyes a bit exotic and she could do very well.
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by turol   » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:00 pm

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My proposals:

Honor Harrington - Dichen Lachman
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1901842/
Half-asian, 5'7" and had action/fight scenes in Dollhouse.

Denver Summervale - Nathan Fillion
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277213/
He does awesome bad guys. Go watch Buffy and Doctor Horrible.

Pavel Young - James Callis
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130536/
Can also do a total bastard well.

Baron High Ridge/Admiral Oversteegen - Enver Gjokaj
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2222175/
These two characters are described as being almost exactly alike but totally different personalities. Enver can pull this off. He is a GOD. Go watch Dollhouse.

Aldona Anisimovna - Kristen Bell
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068338/
Cute but very, very dangerous.

Tomas Ramirez - Christopher Judge
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0431895/
Big and stoic.

Dettweilers - Alan Tudyk
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0876138/
Loving grandfather and magnificent bastard in one package.
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by Thandimanillon   » Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:55 am

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I definitely agree with Christopher Judge as a Ramirez, although I think he could do well as Jesus Ramirez as well...
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by waddles for desert   » Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:02 am

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Thandimanillon wrote:I definitely agree with Christopher Judge as a Ramirez, although I think he could do well as Jesus Ramirez as well...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson could play that role.
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by Werrf   » Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:05 am

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waddles for desert wrote:
Thandimanillon wrote:I definitely agree with Christopher Judge as a Ramirez, although I think he could do well as Jesus Ramirez as well...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson could play that role.

Couldn't we get an actor to play him instead?
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by waddles for desert   » Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:04 pm

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Werrf wrote:
waddles for desert wrote:
Thandimanillon wrote:I definitely agree with Christopher Judge as a Ramirez, although I think he could do well as Jesus Ramirez as well...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson could play that role.

Couldn't we get an actor to play him instead?

Cold.

Seems to me he has been learning as he has gone along. And, neither role should be very demanding.
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