Why hasn't David Weber's Honor Harrington series

[Old Troop]

come to film?

[Fumesucker]

1. Honor is a great character and Weber has the military jargon down cold and is quite a good writer.

But I'm not sure that the HH books are real standouts for ideas..

I'd prefer to see Miles Vorkosigan stories on film first, Miles has been my favorite character in SF for quite a while, I've been reading Bujold since "Falling Free" was serialized in Analog..

http://fyreflybooks.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/lois-mcmaster-bujold-falling-free/

[TygrBright]

4. I'd rather see it as a series, reminiscent of the old adventure serial genre.

If they could manage not to mangle it, it would be a standout.

wishfully,
Bright

[Staph]

2. According to the author, a film is in the works.

* Series: Honorverse
* Date: September 27, 2011

Okay, according to my "Hollywood representative," we've officially closed the deal on the movie option for the Honorverse. I should be seeing the contracts in the next few days, and there are a couple of other legal documents that need to be traded back and forth, but We Have a Deal.

There was quite a bit of discussion on the forum a while back about what goes into a successful movie adaptation of a literary work, and whether or not a literary work can be "successfully" adapted at all. The Lord of the Rings was used as an example, and everyone involved (including me) trotted out the aspects of the Peter Jackson adaptation that didn't work for us. And now, if all goes well, it's going to be Honor's turn, beginning with On Basilisk Station.

I'm not going to lie to you — I feel a certain degree of trepidation. I think that's inevitable, given how many years I've put into creating the books and the characters in them. It's a given, inescapable, that there are going to be changes to the books to bring them to the movie screen and that some of those changes are going to tick off some of Honor's most devoted readers. It can't be any other way, if only because of the size of the books and the sprawling nature of the Honorverse.

http://www.davidweber.net/essays

[TygrBright]

3. Good question. The first couple are top-notch milspec/space opera fare.

After that, the Libertarian maundering becomes a bit too obtrusive and annoying.

But those first couple are excellent. Just imagine the CGI.

amiably,
Bright

[jambo101]

5. Better yet

Why not a TV series.

[Posteritatis]

6. That'd be the better format, yeah. I can't see his books pacing well within one movie. (nt)