You're approached by a Hollywood exec...

[Mad_Jack]

Honor Harrington - war scenes plus political intrigue

The only problem with an Honorverse series is the anti-aging tech - canonically, most of the junior crew members should look like they just graduated from high school, and the middle-aged folks look like they're in their twenties. It's hard to sell it as military sci-fi when all the "grizzled" veterans look like the last battle they fought was against pedestrian traffic trying to get to the Starbucks across the street...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The only problem with an Honorverse series is the anti-aging tech - canonically, most of the junior crew members should look like they just graduated from high school, and the middle-aged folks look like they're in their twenties. It's hard to sell it as military sci-fi when all the "grizzled" veterans look like the last battle they fought was against pedestrian traffic trying to get to the Starbucks across the street...

OTOH, it makes it easy to cast, especially for a network like The CW.

 

[Ryujin]

OTOH, it makes it easy to cast, especially for a network like The CW.

The CW? Do we really need another melodrama, starring improbably attractive 20-somethings?

 

[Mad_Jack]

OTOH, it makes it easy to cast, especially for a network like The CW.

But also risks it being misinterpreted as a Starship Troopers wanna-be for those that aren't familiar with the books...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

But also risks it being misinterpreted as a Starship Troopers wanna-be for those that aren't familiar with the books...

raises hand

I don’t know the Honorverse at all.

OTOH, if you’re a fan of sci-fi, fantasy & horror, you’d be aware that some works were inspired by the same things, or actually were created as an homage or reply to older ones, meaning similarities WILL exist.

I remember that a lot of people knocked the Shannara books as a cheap LotR knockoff. But the deeper you go into the series, the more differences you’ll see.

Or look at the Harry Potter compared to DC Comics’ Tim Hunter. On the surface , they’re as alike as can be- both brown-haired bespectacled boy-mages of incredible potential. But their stories are quite different.

 

[dbolack]

Honor Harrington - war scenes plus political intrigue

So here for this.

 

[trappedslider]

Or look at the Harry Potter compared to DC Comics’ Tim Hunter. On the surface , they’re as alike as can be- both brown-haired bespectacled boy-mages of incredible potential. But their stories are quite different.

What's Tim hunter?

 

[Ryujin]

EE "Doc" Smith's "Lensmen" series, but updated for today. The "only one female Lensman" thing, and the all White nature both rankle. these days.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

What's Tim hunter?

Tim Hunter is a DC Comics character who was introduced as a young, brown-haired bespectacled British boy unaware of his magical potential…in 1990. He was created by Neil Gaiman and John Horton.

It should be noted that Neil Gaiman said that similarities between the characters is most likely from both writers being inspired by T.H. White (and others).

 

[Mad_Jack]

raises hand

I don’t know the Honorverse at all.

The book series by David Weber follows the military and political career of a woman named Honor Harrington (along with her empathic sentient six-legged treecat). Many elements of the setting parallel events in early-19th-century Europe: the main character is very clearly and intentionally modeled on Horatio Hornblower - she's an officer in the Space Navy of the Star Kingdom of Manticore (Brittania in spaaaace) and although the setting is various flavors of space opera, the tech and ship-to-ship space battles are definitely hard military sci-fi.
In the extended universe, the stories about characters other than Honor range widely in tone - everything from straight-up spy thrillers to fluffy feel-good stories about the first contact between the humans and the treecats. Weber has a mutual co-author agreement with Eric Flint, author of the 1692 alternate history series, and they write some damn good stuff together.
It's a good read if you like a bit of meat on your stories but not too much.