# Honor Harrington movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 23, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967 "2005-12-23T14:02:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/1 "2005-12-23T14:02:42Z")
> **[John McTiernan looking to unleash HONOR HARRINGTON On A Screen Near You?](http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/22073)** > > Hey folks, Harry here with a juicy Christmas rumor for you to put under your Christmas Tree or snuggly in the stocking of hopes you've got up by the chimney near you. It seems that a rumor is picking up a little steam around the web, mainly... I get The Mira Furlan voice, but Julia Stiles??? Brian ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/2 "2005-12-23T15:15:17Z")
How about Angelina Jolie? ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/3 "2005-12-23T15:20:21Z")
I’d pick another member of the B-5 cast, [Claudia Christian.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160004/) ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/4 "2005-12-23T16:34:44Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > How about Angelina Jolie? Seconded enthusiastically, especially after seeing her in uniform with an eye patch in _Sky Captain_. She’s the first choice for both me and one of my close friends, but as he observed, she’s no longer young enough for the job if the movie turns out to be successful enough for them to turn it into a lengthy series. Given that prolong is an essential part of the books, you’d need to start with someone pretty young if you want to make a lot of movies. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/5 "2005-12-23T18:05:56Z")
I think a young newcomer would be best. None of the actresses mentioned so far have both qualities(height and presence) that would be necessary. Eyes no problem, contacts for color and the epicanthic fold would be easy too(assuming the chosen one doesn’t already _have_ it.) What’s going to be **hard** is doing Nimitz. ---
**Author:** ![rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/6 "2005-12-23T18:26:09Z")
Mira furlan?? Hell no. Totally the wrong accent. Remember, HH has a cultured speech, no accents mentioned anywhere. Personally I think they need someone new for it. There are many actresses with skill waiting in the sidelines and this way they can put more into the rest of the cast and special effects. This movie would take some serious CG to pull off. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/7 "2005-12-23T19:06:28Z")
I agree with **Baker** …what about Nimitz? CGI isn’t going to cut it here, and they can’t leave him out. If they make him a cat or something, I’m gonna be _pissed_! ---
**Author:** ![octothorpe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b77776/32.png) [@octothorpe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octothorpe)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/8 "2005-12-23T19:16:24Z")
Put me in the camp with **Baker** and **rabbit** ; find an ‘unknown’ who’s not going to have quite the tendancy to impose her own personality on Captain Harrington. As to Nimitz, i don’t think you will be able to get away from the CGI; this is a major secondary player and substituting a terrestrial critter just ain’t gonna get it. Man, i hope they’re really serious about this; the probability of making a mediocre (or worse) hash of it approaches unity… # ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/9 "2005-12-23T20:09:55Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > How about Angelina Jolie? Unlikely. David Weber hates, loathes and despises her. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/10 "2005-12-23T20:13:14Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > How about Angelina Jolie? Absolutley not, David Weber likes her about the same as Steadholder Mueller likes Honor Harrington. Long story. (ah, I see **Der Trihs** has beaten me to that. I’d go for Claudia Christian or Julie Dreyfus, but yeah, probably neither of them are young enough for the role. The problem is, the ideal actress for Honor would have to both LOOK like she’s in her very early 20s, yet ACT like she’s in her mid-50s. She would also have to be tall, but with modern special effects (and platform shoes) that part isn’t so problematic. I’d like to nominate Clive Owen for some character or another. Not sure which, don’t really care which. I’d say Alistar McKeon, but I’m pretty sure he’s supposed to be a reasonably squat fellow. I usually visualize Vin Diesel as Kevin Usher (since he’s supposed to be a tall and powerful sort), though I can’t make myself hear him talk with a French accent. And yeah, Nimitz would pretty much have to be CGI. Though I suppose they could make him an animatronic treecat that just stays perched on things, and when he moves about on his own make him furry grey blur. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WilhelmGefallen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@WilhelmGefallen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WilhelmGefallen)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/11 "2005-12-23T22:36:22Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I agree with **Baker** …what about Nimitz? CGI isn’t going to cut it here… Hmmm maybe Andy Serkis is free to play him. Angelina Jolie definately has the right look to play Honor but if Weber dislikes her thats unlikely. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/12 "2005-12-23T22:50:47Z")
> [@brownie55](#): > > I’d pick another member of the B-5 cast, [Claudia Christian.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160004/) She’s working on something called _Star Hyke_, playing a character named “Captain Belinda Blowhard”, which sounds more like a parody of Harrington than anyhing else. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/13 "2005-12-24T00:31:23Z")
That sounds like a porno. Anyway, the other name which occurs to me is Keira Knightely ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/14 "2005-12-24T01:14:26Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > That sounds like a porno. > > Anyway, the other name which occurs to me is Keira Knightely No, you’re thinking of _Star Dyke_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/15 "2005-12-24T02:11:42Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Anyway, the other name which occurs to me is Keira Knightely I wasn’t familiar with this actress so I looked her up, and you know, she might suit. She’s young, hardly twenty-one. I don’t know about her height, but there are ways to compensate. If she can act tough she might do very well. I need to go watch some of her movies, none of which I seem to have seen. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/16 "2005-12-24T02:37:53Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > [http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22073](http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22073) > > I get The Mira Furlan voice, but Julia Stiles??? > > Brian Linky no worky. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/17 "2005-12-24T04:01:51Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I wasn’t familiar with this actress so I looked her up, and you know, she might suit. She’s young, hardly twenty-one. I don’t know about her height, but there are ways to compensate. If she can act tough she might do very well. I need to go watch some of her movies, none of which I seem to have seen. She, to me, lacks the gravitas required. I’d sugest you see King Arthur, but I would not wish that on anybody. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/18 "2005-12-24T04:06:28Z")
I agree with Baker (and others)…someone new and young. Gods I hope they get someone good. I’m floored…I hope they don’t fuck this up. If they do it right…ye gods! -XT ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/19 "2005-12-24T19:16:54Z")
They could cast Samantha Bee as Honor Harrington for all I care – just so long as the cinemative version of the Honorverse uses **good physics.** No audible explosions in space, no ignoring Newton’s Laws of Motion, no spaceships that move without expelling any reaction mass, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967/20 "2005-12-24T22:32:26Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > They could cast Samantha Bee as Honor Harrington for all I care – just so long as the cinemative version of the Honorverse uses **good physics.** No audible explosions in space, no ignoring Newton’s Laws of Motion, no spaceships that move without expelling any reaction mass, etc. Then it wouldn’t be Honor Harrington. Impeller drives don’t use reaction mass. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honor-harrington-movie/336967.md?page=2)