Honor Harrington TV series?

[Evilhyphen]

From animeondvd.com ADV Films appears to be looking for co-production and investment opportunties for an Honor Harrington Live action series, a Mutineer's Moon animated series, and a Farscape animated series.

Anyone hear or know anything else about this. The only other listing I could find was this one from the MIPCOM website.
http://www.mipcom.com/App/homepage.cfm? ... ame=100132

[Stormbringer]

http://www.baen.com/FAQS.htm#Mini-Series

David Weber himself:

Someone told me you guys were discussing this topic(s), so I thought I'd drop in.

First, don't EVEN get me started on ST. We don'r have that much time or bandwidth.

On the HH front, however, what's actually being contemplated is a regular series, not a mini-series.

I've seen the first draft of the proposed 2-hour pilot, and while I have some minor problems with it, I am quite impressed overall. The senior script-writer show-runner of the crew working on this project (on spec, at this point) is a Royal Navy veteran with experience as both a watch officer and with naval intelligence, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. (In the first draft of the script, he was busy using wet-navy helm orders for maneuvers under thrusters at space stations. He knew they were wrong, but he also knew that he could write them in a coherent fashion and planned on cleaning them up later.)

There is enough interest in the project that said show runner is flying down to Australia to discuss money and possible filming locations. Where we go from here and/or how quickly we do so is in the laps of the gods.

One thing. I have not attempted to retain dictatorial control of the (possible) series for two main reasons: (1) script writing is not what I do for a living and is not my area of expertise, and (2) they are thinking in terms of a 3-5 season story arc to cover the novels from OBS to EoH, and if I got deeply involved in making sure they did all of them perfectly according to the series, I wouldn't get any new novels done during that time frame. Since I am planning at least 9 more in the HH story line plus a spin-off series (which I think of as the "Saganami Island" series which will focus on certain of Honor's Academy students and their careers and which should also go to at least 8 or 9 books), the time sink facets of the operation would simply make my detailed, hands-on involvement in the scripts themselves impractical.

Having said that, the one point I did insist upon was that if I DID have any concerns, their senior writers would be contractually required to respond to my concerns in writing. This will not compel them to do things my way, but it will (hopefully) at least compel them to think seriously about what I'm saying rather than just blowing it off. Also, the exact degree of supervision and visits to the set on my part which might be involved remains to be settled.

I suppose I ought to say right up front that I do not expect any eventual series to be an exact rendering of my view of HH and her universe. For one thing, I am more concerned with an actress who can portray Honor's personality and — especially — her command style than I am with someone who looks like she is described in the books. Mind you, I would NOT be happy if they cast a blue-eyed blonde in the role, but how many female 6'2" Eurasian martial artists who can also act AND project her command style are there?

The thing that I like best about the pilot script version I've seen so far is that entire blocks of dialogue are lifted directly out of the book at critical points in the development of relationships between people like Honor, McKeon, Dominica Santos, etc. Harkness' role is punched up somewhat, since they intend to make him a more prominent character in the earlier books, and while I find the sudden emergence of a decidedly lower class British accent on his part a bit unsettling, it actually grows on one with time.

I don't know whether or not I'm at liberty at this point to tell you who all is involved in this, but I can tell you that at least one individual had a series-long association with B5, which may also give you some hope for where everything is/may be headed.

As I say, at this point we don't know exactly how likely the series actually is to be produced, and things like this have a habit of taking a LOOOOONG time to gel (or not gel, as the case may be). We have had several expressions of interest from studios and cable channels, so that may be a good sign, but there's absolutely no way to predict the ultimate success or failure of the project.

Gotta go back and write some more,
David

He's since posted on Baen's Bar about potential Tv adaptions. The Imperium Trilogy anime is supposed to be moving along.

The Honor Harrington tv series (or mini-series or movie) is supposedly still be wrangled over. I know there has been a lot discussion over what sort of form to present them in. It's been at various times everything from a tv series to a big screen movie. Settling what form it'll take seems to be a major issue. What seems most likely is a big mini series (ala SciFi Channel's Dune or A&E's Horatio Hornblower) for each arc of the books.

Plus there is the trouble with finding a distributer. Few networks have the money for and the interest in a space based sci fi series. Scifi Channel is now into paranormal talk shows and no other networks have any interest in a space show besides Trek. Most see the tv scifi market as Star Trek and nothing else. Look at how hard it was to get B5 on the air and it was exceptional.

And finding the money for a show like that. It'd be a very very expensive proposition. All those stunning vistas and spectacular battles would have to be recreated. The sheer number of FX shots would mean whoever finances it would have to have deep pockets.