no one ever just "says" something, they always "cry" it or "exclaim" it or whatever

Yeah, that annoyed me too. It reminds me of the sort of bad fanfic where the author has been taught never to use the same word twice for the same thing, and never to use a two-cent word when there's a five-dollar one.

I see Jeremy Irons has been cast in the upcoming movie as Brom. I guess that answers the question of what to do after the Dungeons and Dragons movie...