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I'm rereading Cordelia's Honor for the nth time, because it's like nummy delicious crack, and I've decided it needs to be a feature film, at least in my happy imaginations. So far I've decided it stars Nicole Kidman and George Clooney, although that's mostly because I'd probably watch either of them brushing their teeth and really want to see them share the big screen. The really hard questions for me (besides the obvious problem of casting Miles, which I'm luckily able to avoid by my choice of book) are: who plays Sergeant Bothari? Simon Ilyan is another tricksy one, and that means Alys Vorpatril will have to be carefully chosen as well.... yeah. Anyways, I figured some of the folks who read this journal might have fun opinions (kuddliphish, I'm looking at you in particular) so let the games begin!

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In my mind Alys is statuesque, the classic Vor aristocratic lady. Not a skinny waif, but a bit slimmer and taller than Cordelia, which means the actress who plays her might have to wear stilts to be taller than NK, who in turn might have to gain a little weight and be all gorgeously cuddly for the part (oh darn!) A younger Uma Thurman would make a good Drou (already I'm starting to suspend the rules of space and time, never a good sign in the casting games). Ben Kingsley could do a formidable Piotr, actually. Young Ilyan is tricksy. Someone good at looking like he's hiding something, who will age into a formidable badass form of nature. If Ron Perlman weren't so darn lovable he'd have Bothari's big and ugly right down, but I have a hard time thinking of him as scary. The cast reduction problem is a right bastard indeed, and one of the reasons to want to make multiple films for sure.