It seems that two decades of development hell isn't enough for the sci-fi character Ender and his author Orson Scott Card. While promoting the latest Ender novel, "Ender in Exile", to the Los Angeles Times the author revealed that the latest effort to bring "Ender's Game" to the big screen has failed and that director Wolfgang Petersen is no longer attached to direct.
The reason for this latest fall back to development hell?
Orson wasn't comfortable with the movie's direction.
Soldiers, in a sense, never come home," he said. "[Those] who have seen radical violence are never able to share that. We regard it as pathology if they do."
This complex weave of emotions has made Ender especially difficult to film and has resulted in two decades of fizzled studio meetings, dead-end scripts and a marathon director search. The author said he was not interested in a "tough-hero action film" and refuses to condescend to green-screen Hollywood. Card imagines a "film where the human relationships are absolutely essential -- an honest presentation of the story."
Since first being published by Tor Books in 1985, Card's character Ender Wiggin has continued his adventures in five sequels which consist of "Speaker for the Dead", "Xenocide", "Children of the Mind", "A War of Gifts" and the recently published "Ender in Exile".
Amazing book. I've never read a book faster than this one. I'm with Card, the story has to stay true or don't bother. But that is the problem, how to make a movie out of what's there. I'm not sure it could be done well. I would have been there opening day though to find out. If this was just made into action crap, I and many other fans would be pissed. Others might enjoy it.
He gave an interview one time where he was talking about all the trouble he was having with adapting it. A lot of producers wanted to have Ender as a teenager, but Card kept saying that a teenage Ender would be rebellious and not put up with all the sh*t the grownups put him through. At this rate, it just might be plausible that Battle School could be shot in zero-g.
This should just be done on HBO as like a 10-part series a la "Band of Brothers". I think I read this book 7 times in 9th grade and finished it within the day. Definetly a fast read but haven't gotten to any of the sequels.... I should do that.
I also remember being really pissed off after Episode 1 came out and the freakin' anakin kid was rumored to be in this film adaptation. THANK GOD that never came to be.
I read the second book, Storm. It was just ok. I like the world he created, but there wasn't nearly as good of a mystery. I figured it out early on and was a little disappointed because of this. Still I guess it was worth reading, just no where near as good. I stopped after that, but my friend read at least one more. He says they get worse as they go.
Storm? The second book was Speaker for the Dead, which was pretty good.
Storm? The second book was Speaker for the Dead, which was pretty good.
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Can't say Im not surprised. The film would probably have been split up like the hobbit with each one being 4 hours long in ordr to stay true to the book.