[Movie] Ender's Game - Page 6

On November 23 2011 04:04 sickoota wrote:


By "incredibly out of date" I assume you mean "years upon years before its time". You realize this book was written in the 70s when there was no internet right? No one other than William Gibson should be given as much credit as Card for predicting the internet before it happens. Its eery how close he came with a bunch of stuff. As to your point, its not even called the internet, and its set like 100 years in the future. Presumably the blogosphere will undergo some significant changes by that point.

Additionally, who the fuck is Gavin Hood? Godamn this could be a great movie if you gave it a competent director, and an amazing movie if you gave it to a good director (the things Nolan would do...). That Wolverine movie was not worth a tenth of what I paid for it, and all I paid was a gig of bandwidth.

On November 23 2011 05:47 Requizen wrote:

It is indeed striking for how ahead of it's time it is, but if you put the idea on the screen of a 15 year old being elected Hegemon because of writing a blog, it's going to come off as campy as hell today. I just think it needs to be handled right or we'll get another "Hollywood doesn't know shit about technology" moment, which keeps the movie from being as enjoyable, at least for me.

On November 23 2011 05:47 Requizen wrote:

It is indeed striking for how ahead of it's time it is, but if you put the idea on the screen of a 15 year old being elected Hegemon because of writing a blog, it's going to come off as campy as hell today. I just think it needs to be handled right or we'll get another "Hollywood doesn't know shit about technology" moment, which keeps the movie from being as enjoyable, at least for me.

On November 22 2011 10:47 NonSenSeWins wrote:
I only just heard about this today and I must confess, I find this news quite foreboding. I loved Ender's Game growing up and regardless of what a nut OSC might be, you have to admit that the guy can create a damn compelling world. I can only imagine that many of the posters on TL have read and enjoyed Ender's Game as well. Not to mention that the sequel to Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, is even better than the original in my opinion.

Just for some context, Ender's Game is a story in an alternate future where zerg-like aliens, called the "buggers" or "Formics" have attacked humanity twice, once on a human exploration ship and a second time on the Earth itself. They wiped out a huge chunk of the human population with one attack but the humans were able to fend them off. The premise is that humanity has united all nations against the alien threat and are preparing for the next big fight with the aliens. They send the youngest, brightest children of all the countries of the world into space to prepare for war. There, these children (very young children mind you. Some are five years old and even when Ender is a commander in Battle School he is only nine or something) are trained toward the aims of becoming military strategists who can lead the human race in war. The story follows the best and the brightest (supposedly) of all the human children in the world, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, and his rise through Battle School and beyond that. It's a really easy read, so for anyone who doesn't read much but would enjoy something that is very thoroughly thought out and in my opinion very entertaining, this could be a good book for you.

The Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_game

I don't expect an exact depiction of the novel. Film makers can't possibly do that. I know that. I know Ender and Bean will be older than they are described and stuff like that. I know things are going to be wrong. Things are going to be rushed. I've accepted this, but still, I just can't see this movie being good. I hope it is but I can't see it. The child actors giving serious lines in very serious contexts almost seems comical in my mind. And finding child actors good enough in the first place... and of many different cultures too... They aren't going to be that picky I expect. I just don't want the movie to be so bad that people don't want to read the book because of how laughable the movie was. I don't want the movie to make the book into a joke.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/gavin-hoods-enders-game-adaptation-set-for-march-2013-release/

Personally, I don't like the Harry Potter movies but I know a lot of people do. And I think Harry Potter is different from Ender's Game in that even though it is very different from the book in terms of content, it is still the same sort of tone (I don't know if this is the right word) of lightheartedness and the joys of youth. The child actors really help cultivate this sort of feeling for those movies, but Harry Potter is not Ender's Game, often described as a sort of dark, political fiction. Ohhh, I just can't see it.

But I'm still going to check it out when it comes out I suppose. Anyone else an Ender's Game fan? Thoughts? Expectations?

News About Finding the Actor for Ender
http://www.avclub.com/articles/enders-game-movie-finds-its-ender,65398/

The Movie Update Site:
http://endersgamemovie.blogspot.com/