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FINALLY.....I love Ender's Game, it was an interesting quick read.
Could Ender's Game finally be coming to the silver screen? Old school Maniacs (Cinescapers) will testify that they heard rumors of an adaptation of the Orson Scott Card book dating back to the website's early days in the mid '90s. We flash forward a dozen opportunities later to the present day and the Los Angeles Times' 24 Frames reports the latest charge to bring the character to light is coming to fruition, with Odd Lot Entertainment tapping director Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) to rewrite the screenplay and possibly direct the feature.
Plot Concept: A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.
Sound off with your hopes, your fears and your thoughts below.
After waiting for nearly a decade, I'm broken on this issue. I've talked to Orson Scott Card himself at the NYCC and he told me "One day, I'm trying". They broke my spirit when they finally had a director I felt could do it (Wolfgang Peterson) and that fizzled. All I say to this is , don't hold your breath.
@xenomorph: why post on this article then. in my not so humble opinion at all, just based on your post, you are an imbecile and I hate you and everyone in your immediate, secondary, future, and ancestral families. yes i realize im combatting one wrong with another but I don't care. you are what is wrong with the world today, negativity. if you don't like something or you have nothing productive to say: STFU. jackass. you should slice your scrotum and go sit in a bath of epsom salt.
Lets just hope they do it right and with the proper care needed for this great book!
I love love love the book. Still, it may be difficult to translate to a feature.
@EnderWiggin825. Wow calm down. That vein in your forehead is going to pop. Who cares if he hates the book. I liked the book and am excited to hear the news. You obviously have a shrine to Ender built in your fort in the basement. Do everyone a favor. Put down your Hot Pocket, unplug from your Wii and grow up a little bit.
I picked this book up at a garage sale almost 15 years ago, and i've held it as one of the best books i've read. I would love to see this as a movie. And they could pull it off now and do it justice. I'm very optimistic about this news and hope it goes forward!!
They'll never do this justice if only because of the age of the kids. I think the only way to do it properly is an animated cgi flick. Hope I'm wrong, would love to see it done properly
EnderWiggin, how about respecting others right to opine you dumb fuck. Apparently xeno read the book and hated it. If you only want positive reinforcement go to a self-help group or somewhere else. And no, YOU are what's wrong with the world today
I have read a lot of Sci-Fi and i just couldn't get into this book, it was very slow and not too engaging. I know some people love it, but it didn't grip me like Foundation, Children's End, Rama, The Integral Trees, or Ringworld. All of those I would love to see adapted into movies before this one.
I hate ender's game. It's long and boring.