Orson Scott Card has been shooting down plans for this movie for over a decade. I highly doubt he will let a movie happen unless he feels it will do the novel justice.

FFGenerations

7088 Posts

November 22 2011 02:47 GMT

#22

hey you guys just made me remember something, maybe you know if youre scifi nerds

when i was young i read this book about a boy and girl who lived in this futuristic city that was made of different levels. the outside world was unknown, tho i think they found a book from ancient times (books nolonger existed coz it was computerised) not sure, and these two kids started exploring through the upper levels of the city and eventually found their way to the outside, which was a barren post-apocalypse world. the cover of the book showed i think two kids running across a long bridge/platform to escape the city.

any ideas? :/

nohbrows

United States653 Posts

November 22 2011 02:59 GMT

#23

Yeah, I don't think any movie will do Ender's Game justice, for many reasons stated above.
But I think one poignant thing that will make it difficult to translate the book from print to film is the part where Ender realized that direction has no meaning in zero gravity. (The enemy gate is down.) That and the Giant's game.
In addition, so many parts of the book that aren't exactly "kid friendly" to warrant using children in the cast. And not using children will warp the meaning of the book. The book just has too many nuances to be turned into a 2 hr film.

enigamI

Canada385 Posts

November 22 2011 03:03 GMT

#24

cautious optimism on my part. Incredible book, but I might have trouble watching child actors attempt to portray geniuses. IMO would have been better as an animation/cgi endeavor.

RevampedPants

United States30 Posts

November 22 2011 03:11 GMT

#25

I might actually prefer if they make the actors much older than Ender was just because I don't think the kids can portray Ender the way he should be.

Fission

Canada1184 Posts

November 22 2011 03:11 GMT

#26

There's no way they can get child actors to portray the book characters properly. The book is very dark, and is not at all about "childlike funtime adventures" like harry potter. Alot of the scenes in the book were fairly disturbing to me as a young child and would be seriously fucked up in a movie that was aimed for kids.

duk3

United States807 Posts

November 22 2011 03:16 GMT

#27

On November 22 2011 11:47 FFGenerations wrote:
hey you guys just made me remember something, maybe you know if youre scifi nerds

when i was young i read this book about a boy and girl who lived in this futuristic city that was made of different levels. the outside world was unknown, tho i think they found a book from ancient times (books nolonger existed coz it was computerised) not sure, and these two kids started exploring through the upper levels of the city and eventually found their way to the outside, which was a barren post-apocalypse world. the cover of the book showed i think two kids running across a long bridge/platform to escape the city.

any ideas? :/

This kind of sounds like The City of Ember to me.

I hope that this movie will live up to the book fairly well, but I am not counting on it at all.

ObliviousNA

United States535 Posts

November 22 2011 03:21 GMT

#28

the first book was amazing. sequels... not so much. OSC is very religious (mormon I believe) and the subsequent books are a bit darker and come off as a bit preachy and philosophical.

I hope they do well with this, it has the potential to be amazing.

SeeDLiNg

United States690 Posts

November 22 2011 03:31 GMT

#29

They won't butcher it. Orson was very careful with who he selected and wants it to be as great as the book.

I, for one... am beyond excited for this

garlicface

Canada4196 Posts

November 22 2011 03:32 GMT

#30

On November 22 2011 12:16 duk3 wrote:

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This kind of sounds like The City of Ember to me.

I hope that this movie will live up to the book fairly well, but I am not counting on it at all.

I think City of Ember had 3 kids make it out, and the world was definitely not post-apocalyptic. It was lush, green, and beautiful.

kingcoyote

United States546 Posts

November 22 2011 03:35 GMT

#31

I'm worried about this movie. So much of the book was about the internal dialog of Ender and his thought process and his decisions, and I just don't think a movie can really translate so much internal dialog into something that viewers can experience. I honestly hope they prove me wrong, but I just don't think this story can translate to the movie medium.

BFCrimson

United States176 Posts

November 22 2011 03:35 GMT

#32

I am the sort to usually be pessimistic about these things, however with everything that can be said about Orson Scott Card, you can be sure he won't let a half assed movie ever release with "Ender's Game" for a title.

Sipher

United States333 Posts

November 22 2011 03:36 GMT

#33

I loved this series, along with the Ender's Shadow series. I remember discussing with friends back in 9th grade if it would make a good movie or not, we decided no because there's no way movie makers could have done the game-I can't rememberthe exact name of it, but you all know what I'm talking about- justice (we all loved that aspect of it, we played basketball so the competitiveness struck home for us). However that was back in '02. Now a days, I fully believe that CGI can recreate that game haha, but the question is how will they portray the story, and all the subtle motivations of the book, etc.

I will keep an open mind and I look forward to the movie...Makes me want to reread the series haha.

soullogik

United States1171 Posts

November 22 2011 03:37 GMT

#34

assuming it will be raped and pillaged by Hollywood like normal

but we can hope

CellGel

Australia27 Posts

November 22 2011 03:41 GMT

#35

On November 22 2011 12:21 ObliviousNA wrote:
the first book was amazing. sequels... not so much. OSC is very religious (mormon I believe) and the subsequent books are a bit darker and come off as a bit preachy and philosophical.

I hope they do well with this, it has the potential to be amazing.

Personally I found the two sequels a lot more interesting and thought-provoking than the original. Not saying the original wasn't awesome as well though, I just get frustrated when people fixate on the children's age instead of the actual story, which seems to happen all the time. I really liked how Andrew's character developed and how winning battles decisively translated from physical ones to spiritual.

That said, hoping this movie is kick-ass :D

Melvin0000

United States32 Posts

November 22 2011 03:43 GMT

#36

I remember reading that OSC had written his own script of Ender's Game to be used for a movie so maybe the movie can actually be good. I really love the Ender's Game series and Ender's Shadow series even more so I hope that they can pull this off and make it much better than most book movies.

XXhkXX

170 Posts

November 22 2011 03:43 GMT

#37

holy shit its my dream come true if this is real.

They better not hire M. Night Shamalan, he already ruined one of my favorite shows...

Zirith

Canada403 Posts

November 22 2011 03:48 GMT

#38

this movie better not suck godamnit.

Budmandude

United States123 Posts

November 22 2011 03:55 GMT

#39

Xenocide is one of my favorite Sci-Fi books. The themes and situations in it are really interesting; I kept finding that I had stopped reading and was thinking about what was happening, how characters reacted, etc.

Children of the Mind is a little too weird for me though; not bad, but definitely the weakest in the series.

kef

283 Posts

November 22 2011 04:00 GMT

#40

I really hope they make the Space Command school look and feel like the ship from 2001 Space Odyssey or something from The Empire Strikes Back, or at the very least the Icarus II or the base from Moon. If it doesn't have a somewhat old-style scifi feel to it then I'm not gonna even acknowledge its existence

EDIT: Also, I remember 8 or 9 years ago a friend of mine telling me they were making a movie adaptation and that one of her friends was to play Petra Arkanian... It sounded far-fetched to me but her friend was an incredible actress for her age and she looked a lot like how I always imagined Petra to be, so I thought it could be possible. Guess it wasn't though.