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On December 06 2012 08:09 Ampersand799 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 06 2012 02:43 Crissaegrim wrote:
I just hope its not going to be akin to The hunger games. Fucking shit movie for kids. Please please please dont kidify this movie. I agree. The Hunger Games came out much more "kid" friendly due to the lack of real violence that was in the book(s). I hope the same doesn't happen to Ender's Game. I want to see Ender fight Stilson and Bonzo - two key plot points in the novel in regards to the development of Ender's character without Hollywood trying to make it PG. Ender's Game should be a PG-13 movie.
It should be an R with the rating system as they are. The violence isn't a gratuitous side-show. It's important to how Ender develops.
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I too am worried about how they choose to shoot this movie. Obviously you can't just have a 12 year old kid inner-monologuing his way through a film and expect to be taken seriously. I expect they'll expand Ender's relationships with other characters, such as Bean, Petra, Alai, Graff, Anderson, who knows.
In any case it wont exactly be canon because Ender being such an island even at that age is crucial to his character. Unfortunately film, like any artistic medium, has its limitations.
I'm going to keep my expectations heavily tempered...hopefully we get a good performance from Harrison Ford and some awesome Battle Room scenes. Oh, and the Fantasy Game. If there's no Fantasy Game my nerdrage will be fearsome to behold.
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Isnt this book famous for being in "development hell" where it never reaches pre-production?
In other words I´ll believe it when I see it. Probably will not be very good anyway.
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On December 06 2012 14:50 Wolfswood wrote:
I too am worried about how they choose to shoot this movie. Obviously you can't just have a 12 year old kid inner-monologuing his way through a film and expect to be taken seriously. I expect they'll expand Ender's relationships with other characters, such as Bean, Petra, Alai, Graff, Anderson, who knows.
In any case it wont exactly be canon because Ender being such an island even at that age is crucial to his character. Unfortunately film, like any artistic medium, has its limitations.
I'm going to keep my expectations heavily tempered...hopefully we get a good performance from Harrison Ford and some awesome Battle Room scenes. Oh, and the Fantasy Game. If there's no Fantasy Game my nerdrage will be fearsome to behold.
Maybe they'll have it be narrated by an older Ender as depicted in the sequels. That could work pretty well and be a good lead in for more movies. Can't get around child actors though.
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i HEARD this was hapening, and i was actually happy. The cast loked good.
This is one of my all timne fav books. I do have to say I liked the enders shadow series better than the books after enders shadow. And bean is a nerd baller badass, mutha fuka.
And i hope the fights stay in. They are needed. And the games will be awsoem if done corectly, but if not, this movie will suck.
Here is the IMDB link, not sure if it is already posted, but i think this should be good.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/
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On December 06 2012 14:50 Wolfswood wrote:
I too am worried about how they choose to shoot this movie. Obviously you can't just have a 12 year old kid inner-monologuing his way through a film and expect to be taken seriously. I expect they'll expand Ender's relationships with other characters, such as Bean, Petra, Alai, Graff, Anderson, who knows.
In any case it wont exactly be canon because Ender being such an island even at that age is crucial to his character. Unfortunately film, like any artistic medium, has its limitations.
I'm going to keep my expectations heavily tempered...hopefully we get a good performance from Harrison Ford and some awesome Battle Room scenes. Oh, and the Fantasy Game. If there's no Fantasy Game my nerdrage will be fearsome to behold.
When I think about how they're going to do this, I'm sort of hoping to have a Dexter feel to it. Ender speaking to himself, but it would be an older Ender. I think that would be the best way because then you have Ender's thoughts laid out beautifully, but it's more believable when he will be talking in past tense.
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The author of Ender's game lives in the neighborhood where I grew up. Not sure if I should be too proud of that, but it's kind of cool.
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On December 06 2012 15:01 Grend wrote:
Isnt this book famous for being in "development hell" where it never reaches pre-production?
In other words I´ll believe it when I see it. Probably will not be very good anyway.
It has been attempted many times, at has thus far puttered out every time before even making it to shooting. as far as I can tell.
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On December 07 2012 05:32 ThomasjServo wrote:Show nested quote +On December 06 2012 15:01 Grend wrote:
Isnt this book famous for being in "development hell" where it never reaches pre-production?
In other words I´ll believe it when I see it. Probably will not be very good anyway. It has been attempted many times, at has thus far puttered out every time before even making it to shooting. as far as I can tell.
It's currently in post-production and has a release date, so I'd say it's got a pretty good shot of at least coming out.
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Haha I wonder if they'll include all of those graphic scenes like killing the giant in the game, the naked shower fight, and him gnawing on his hand. My memory is a bit hazy but I remember there was a lot of animal torture too. I'd read the book again but I don't want to ruin the memory for myself in case it turns out to be shit.
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Honestly, I think this will be shit in comparison to the books, due to all of the political correctness bullshit that everybody seems to have a stick up their asses on.
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My heartbeat actually went up in excitement when I read the title of this thread. Can't wait for it - I guess I will have to import it as soon as the DVD is in the stores. 
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On November 22 2011 11:09 seppolevne wrote:Apparently this kid is playing Ender, I like that he's so young. ![[image loading]](http://tepasmas.com/sites/default/files/category_pictures/asa_butterfield.jpg)
He's 5'8 now. Unless they finished all the shooting when he was still short and young than I'm going to be upset.
I like all the other actors in their respective roles but Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin is not ideal imo. He has an english accent to. So unless he can pull a Hugh Laurie and sound American as hell it's going to piss a lot of people off.
Also, new battle school pic. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3078398720/tt1731141
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Major Anderson is a woman and she didn't bother to read a book for teenages that is 200 pages. These facts set the bar for my expectations of this movie.
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Is this still in production? I think that kid from Looper might do a great job with Ender.
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On February 21 2013 23:21 YoucriedWolf wrote:
Major Anderson is a woman and she didn't bother to read a book for teenages that is 200 pages. These facts set the bar for my expectations of this movie.
If this is true, you just put the nail in the coffin for me.
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On February 21 2013 23:21 YoucriedWolf wrote:
Major Anderson is a woman and she didn't bother to read a book for teenages that is 200 pages. These facts set the bar for my expectations of this movie.
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I hope that this isn't true. Where did you hear that?
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I don't know about the second part but she's credited on the imdb page
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I don't know if I care too much if they made the character a women, they can make it work. But if the actress doesn't care enough to read the book (something that can be done quickly) then thats sad.
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I get this feeling sometimes that they're only making this movie so they can make hits of the sequels. I really think that because of the lack of inner monologue (due to + Show Spoiler +) that Speaker and Xenocide would make way better movies. You could combine Xenocide and Children of the Mind to be honest, but Speaker and Xenocide are huge, and having a little background for + Show Spoiler +the hegemon and the hive queen Life of Human. I think there's another one he writes too about Jane but I can't remember the name at the moment
Honestly, the sequels would make better movies than Ender's Game will. Even the Shadow series will probably make for better movies. but Ender's Game is just going to be too awkward with all of what happens in Ender's head. I guess there's the whole part of Peter and Valentine, which could add a lot of story....
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