It's bad form to thread crap, but God I hated that book. Waste of money, waste of time, didn't finish it, don't miss it. If you enjoyed it more power to you, but I tossed it.
Ender's Game...the movie!!!!
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[begin standard Hollywood Warning] At any point in time, essentially any thing that can be made into a movie/tv show/direct to video/GBA game, is going to be optioned/in development/proposed/wild assed speculation. Unless it is actually in production with a budget, stars, director, producer and release date, the fact that someone is interested in doing something with it, means something is only slightly more likely to happen than with my desire to buy a $500,000 Ferrari.[/standard Hollywood Warning]
Pbartender
First Post
The Grumpy Celt said:
Then don't.
Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
Hmmm ... should be good if well-adapted. While I enjoyed the basic story, I did find that the overly preachy tone caused me to never pick up another Card novel.
Shoot, if the latest BSG episode thread inspires some interesting debate, Ender's Game will be off the charts.
Shoot, if the latest BSG episode thread inspires some interesting debate, Ender's Game will be off the charts.
I don't think it'll adapt well at all, honestly.
The most important action of the book occurswithin the heads of young genius children. Within the confines of the book, Card cando enough work to get you to understand who these kids are. In the visual medium of a movie, what you'll probably end up with is a bunch of children who act as if they are adults. I don't expect there'sa child actor out there who can play these characters properly.
But that's just my pessimist viewpoint. Contrary to Hollywood's opinion, not everything needs to be made into a movie.
The most important action of the book occurswithin the heads of young genius children. Within the confines of the book, Card cando enough work to get you to understand who these kids are. In the visual medium of a movie, what you'll probably end up with is a bunch of children who act as if they are adults. I don't expect there'sa child actor out there who can play these characters properly.
But that's just my pessimist viewpoint. Contrary to Hollywood's opinion, not everything needs to be made into a movie.
Scotley
Hero
At the end of the audiobook edition of Ender's Game, Card engaged in a lengthy discussion of the posibility of a movie. He's had it in play more than once, but studios want to make changes he can't live with. For him the story only works with Ender being no older than 10 or 11. The studios apparently feel this won't appeal to a broad enough audience. They want to age the characters enough to add a love interest. His oppinion is that they want to do this to bring in the teenage girl viewers. Card doesn't feel that an older Ender would ever fall for the manipulations of the adults in the book. He is optimistic that the success of Harry Potter will get the studios to see his vision of the story. The script he was working with at the time uses ideas from one of the later Ender books to get a concise enough story. I haven't read them yet, so I don't know how that plays out. Of course the information was in a two year old audiobook, so things may have changed significantly since then. Card seemed pretty adament about having the movie made his way at that time.
Pbartender said:
I am just bewildered that so many people liked the book so much and that they are so looking forward to a movie. They must have gotten something very different from the reading than I did.
Storm Raven
First Post
The Grumpy Celt said:
If you didn't finish it, you can't very well understand it. It didn't win the Nebula and Hugo awards for nothing.
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