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On November 22 2011 12:32 garlicface wrote:Show nested quote +On November 22 2011 12:16 duk3 wrote: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. 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.
City of Ember was definitely post- apocalyptic, and it was the story of a boy and girl who discovered a way out of their city, across an underground river and out of their city in a giant cave into the outside world, which was mostly destroyed by nukes hundreds of years ago. They then helped the rest of the city out as well.
It doesn't exactly match up to what he said, but that might just be due to bad recollections, I looked around a bit and couldn't find anything that looked more similar.
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The problem with this though that its really hard for their to be a sequal. Speaker of dead, xenocide, and Children of the Mind would be so hard to translate into a film medium without losing what makes the books good. Enders Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon could be made into a movie pretty easily though.
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Obviously a well loved book that's won a lot of awards.. I hope Hollywood handles is with respect. I'm sure it would have come with a HUGE author royalty/licensing fee. Here's hoping!
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i just can't imagine a movie doing certain scenes from the book any justice.. just seems impossible outside of a book. The bathroom scene comes to mind. As someone said earlier, earlier attempts to make a movie on this have all failed, I'd wait before expecting anything.. especially considering it's one of the harder book adaptations out there. If it does happen, I really hope it's made so it's really clear it's not a children's movie.
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Korea (South)11599 Posts
OSC has hated every version before hand where he has sold the movie rights of his book to. He's a perfectionist and wouldn't let a movie be released that wasn't good.
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Speaker for the Dead/Xenocide/Children of the Mind would never ever be made into sequels, they have the complete wrong tone. The books about Bean would probably fit that bill.
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These books are my favorite of all. Really exicted
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This is my favorite book!
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I have such mixed feelings for this. Ender's Game is probably my favorite book of all time.. and the comic was in my opinion not at all how i pictured everything, so i feel like the movie will just ruin the book for me.. But on the other hand id love to see a movie of it, especially if done well.
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They're talking about this again?
I just don't think it'd work. Ender jamming Bonzo's nose into his face.. that's not going to make it into the movie, but at the same time.. that's such a powerful part.
If this does happen, I hope Bean gets a big role. It should bleed into Ender's Shadow a little.
and which would certainly have to be toned down in order to have an all-ages, Harry Potter-like appeal
No.
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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? :/
Kinda sounds like Adolous Huxley's Brave New World. But the cover isnt what you described.
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Ive been waiting for this movie for about 10 years.. I am so stoked!! I really hope they do a good job though. I have the entire series signed by O.S.C. HUGE FAN!
On November 22 2011 13:14 Zelniq wrote:
i just can't imagine a movie doing certain scenes from the book any justice.. just seems impossible outside of a book. The bathroom scene comes to mind. As someone said earlier, earlier attempts to make a movie on this have all failed, I'd wait before expecting anything.. especially considering it's one of the harder book adaptations out there. If it does happen, I really hope it's made so it's really clear it's not a children's movie.
I don't know, I mean it's not like film makers arn't used to depicting crude and violent actions, look at fight club. Ender has quite a few pretty gruesome bouts in the book, I'm sure they understand the importance of each death and will depict it fairly...I HOPE.
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Ender's Game is a novel filled with monologues, introspection, and psychological warfare. I share OP's fear that the movie is bound to completely fail to deliver the nuanced conflicts and relationships between all of the characters.
I recently re-read the novel and, outside of "the game", there is not much potential for the action scenes and special effects that Hollywood just loves to throw money at. I would expect a lot of "additional scenes" and retconning of the original plot.
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I just hope they do a good job...
Enders game was amazing.
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if it's not going to be amazing, I don't want it to happen.
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While I mostly enjoyed the book. The ending is....(spoilered!)
+ Show Spoiler + basically my worst nightmare. I would hate to have thought something was a game only to learn afterwords it had real life consequences. I am personally surprised that I never seem to hear other people that were bothered by this.
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I just dont think the book will translate into a good movie. Its all about the dialogue and internal thought of Ender. Lots of the same hallways over and over, not much action but plenty of thoughtful suspense. Little revalations here and there that you can't actually hide from the moviegoing audience.
Its a great book. Might be good as a TV series. Not reasonable as a movie.
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I think it's gonna be impossible to convey the deep complexities of the book that makes the story so great. All of Ender's internal thoughts/dialogue, the various facial and body expressions that each of the characters is able to read, and like so many have pointed out, the age of the kids.
Ender's Game's without a doubt one of my top 5 books. And while I wasn't impressed with the Speaker series, Ender's Shadow was amazing as well. I wish the best, but I can't let go of my doubts.
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I absolutely loved this book growing up.
It's true that movies never really do a great book justice. I usually get upset when an amazing book is attempted to get made into a movie. Especially works of art like Catcher In the Rye or something.
On the other hand, I imagine that a movie like this will cause more kids who've never heard of the book to buy it, and thus get more kids to read a good book. In that sense I'm in favor of such movies.
I don't know, I'm always really ambivalent about this kind of stuff. I'd definitely go see it though.
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Read all the books, if they do this right I'll really enjoy it. It'll be interesting to see if they can match what I've imagined everything would look like. 
Main reason I'd watch is definitely to see what everything looks like, lol.
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