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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by Paladin62   » Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:41 am

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J.D.SKULL wrote:Cheopis you should have cited the BC(P) thread as example. But back to topic. Sigorney Weaver would to good HH. She has good voice and any HH movie would have to be CGA. So age wouldn't matter.



There's a similar discussion topic over on the Starship
Combat News website (of which I am also a member),and
I'd made the same observation regarding any potential
Honor Harrington movie, as far as the CGA part is con-
cerned.


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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by pokermind   » Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:18 am

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Hi All,

David Weber discusses the Honorverse movie in the last three sections of the tape of his Q&A in Poland not long ago, warning there is translation to Polish about 30 minuets for the last three where he discusses the movie. David begins discussing the movie about 6 minuites in the first one, David Weber w Nidzicy część 6/8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMrMW_i8lJc&feature=plcp

David Weber w Nidzicy część 7/8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lWI6gJmR6k&feature=relmfu

David Weber w Nidzicy część 8/8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W89sNlyCbxM&feature=relmfu

Enjoy, Poker

Paladin62 wrote:
J.D.SKULL wrote:Cheopis you should have cited the BC(P) thread as example. But back to topic. Sigorney Weaver would to good HH. She has good voice and any HH movie would have to be CGA. So age wouldn't matter.



There's a similar discussion topic over on the Starship
Combat News website (of which I am also a member),and
I'd made the same observation regarding any potential
Honor Harrington movie, as far as the CGA part is con-
cerned.


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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by npadln   » Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:06 pm

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Alexa Petrenko is a radio host in Toronto (http://www.classical963fm.com/hosts/alexa-petrenko/) whose voice I just love. Obviously she wouldn't be good for the role of HH. But whenever I hear her mellifluous voice on the radio I always imagine her's is what DW was thinking when describing HH's voice. We always talk about which actress to play the role of HH but if for example an animated movie were to be made instead which actress's voice do people think best suits HH?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Vi593yHMc (just the first couple of minutes)
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by Daryl   » Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:18 am

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If animated I'd nominate Juanita Phillips, Australian news reader for voice. She had an illustrious career as a senior news reader with CNN and the BBC before coming back to the Australian ABC. Crisp, clear, authoritative and absolutely neutral accent (except for sexy undertones).
Classy lady but now in her fifties, petite elfin blond so not suitable for visual role.
npadln wrote:Alexa Petrenko is a radio host in Toronto (http://www.classical963fm.com/hosts/alexa-petrenko/) whose voice I just love. Obviously she wouldn't be good for the role of HH. But whenever I hear her mellifluous voice on the radio I always imagine her's is what DW was thinking when describing HH's voice. We always talk about which actress to play the role of HH but if for example an animated movie were to be made instead which actress's voice do people think best suits HH?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Vi593yHMc (just the first couple of minutes)
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by Imaginos1892   » Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:00 pm

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Just did a search on this topic, and I can't believe nobody has mentioned Lexa Doig - Andromeda series and, was it "Jason X"(?) '70s serial killer on a space station. Sucky movie, but she looked good.
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by dreamrider   » Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:41 pm

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Imaginos1892 wrote:Just did a search on this topic, and I can't believe nobody has mentioned Lexa Doig - Andromeda series and, was it "Jason X"(?) '70s serial killer on a space station. Sucky movie, but she looked good.
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Oh, oh, young padwan. Do not presume to own all wisdom so early in your training.

If you have been around this forum, and especially the Bar for 10, 12, 15 years you would realize that every player with the right plumbing, an a few with the wrong, has been propose publically for this role by fans in the last 15+ years.

Lexa Doig rated very high in speculations/ proposals floating around the Bar at the time of David's first prospective prodution deal, 10 years ago. Despite the fact that she is only 5' 6".

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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by Theswerd   » Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:42 am

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*Cough*

Ahem.


I would like to nominate...


SNOOKI!

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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by rdt   » Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:31 pm

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Based on what I have learned and deduced, the movie's production is problematic because of funding issues. Oh, well, it was fun speculating on who would make a good, if not great, Honor.
I hope rfc was able to take the "celery" and run.
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by dscott8   » Thu Aug 16, 2012 6:34 am

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rdt wrote:Based on what I have learned and deduced, the movie's production is problematic because of funding issues. Oh, well, it was fun speculating on who would make a good, if not great, Honor.
I hope rfc was able to take the "celery" and run.


Ummm, I got like.... hang on, three, seven, umm... I got eleven dollars and thirty-four cents. Does that help?

If you're correct, the real bummer is that the movie rights are now held by someone without the resources to actually use them, which means no movie.
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Re: Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV rol
Post by rdt   » Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:21 pm

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dscott8 wrote:
rdt wrote:Based on what I have learned and deduced, the movie's production is problematic because of funding issues. Oh, well, it was fun speculating on who would make a good, if not great, Honor.
I hope rfc was able to take the "celery" and run.


Ummm, I got like.... hang on, three, seven, umm... I got eleven dollars and thirty-four cents. Does that help?

If you're correct, the real bummer is that the movie rights are now held by someone without the resources to actually use them, which means no movie.

Options expire. Someday...
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