‘Enders Game’ movie Has been Scrapped…
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- By drvenkman
… That is until someone wants to do exactly what Orson Scott Card wants. This has been a film I have been wanting to see since I read the Enders Game series years ago. But the road to get this book adapted into a film has been a rocky one. The movie has been trying to get to the big screen for two decades so whats the problem? Card Recently did an interview with LA Times to talk about his next Ender book ‘Ender in Exile’ which will pick up right where the 1985 novel left off. Wolfgang Peterson was once attached to direct the film but left the project, because it sounds like no one could agree on anything and the project wasn’t going anywhere.
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.”
But green screen is looking more and more incredible! The technology is here where the film can be made the way it is meant to be seen! Relationships can still be essential with a green screen or even CGI animation. What is wrong with these mediums and tools? They are here and can help bring this story to life in the best ways possible. They have worked for tons of other films, why can’t it work for ‘Enders Game’? I don’t see any other way to pull it off.
“Ender’s Game” was recently in development with director Wolfgang Petersen (”In the Line of Fire,” “The Perfect Storm,” “Troy”) on board, but Card did not feel comfortable with the movie’s direction. That project was scrapped early in November.
As much as this sucks this new book that is coming out sounds pretty interesting.
When we revisit Ender in “Exile,” he is 17 and exalted as a hero for fending off the third wave of alien marauders that threatened to obliterate Earth. But his brutal military techniques render him a monster to the very people who trained him to be a killer. He is mercilessly exiled from his home planet and forced into a colony that is light years away.
“Exile” is not the first time Card has dipped back into Ender’s universe — there were three sequels and a spinoff novel. But “Exile” fills in “the lost years.” That’s because in the original follow-up, “Speaker for the Dead,” published in 1986, the protagonist is 35 and healed from the trauma of being Earth’s savior.
Please go to LA Times to read the rest of the article. There is a lot of information about Card and his new Ender book.
Having known Card I can say he definitely knows exactly how he wants things to be and isn’t going to give in to anyone. In addition to all of that, he’s way into musical theater and stage productions in general – which probably has a lot to do with his aversion to green screen and cgi.
I’ll be surprised if the film is ever made as long as he is involved in the production of it – unless he directs it himself.
Maybe we will get Enders Game the musical!
I trust Card to do what is right for the movie. Why? Because when Serenity came out he was quoted as saying “If the Ender’s Game movie can’t be this good, I don’t want it to be made.” He knows what to look for in a good sci-fi movie and he will hold out for it.
well that just blows!!!!!!
Dang,
I support Mr. Card.
I know this will be hella unpopular, but maybe M. Night Shyamalan has the chops for this project? He understands relationships and he can convey scale without green screen.
Of course, I have a hard time believing Wolfgang Petersen wanted to turn Ender’s Game into a meditation on Michael Bay.
all I can say is, please, NO MUSICAL!!!!!!!!
Joss Whedon should do it, then. That’d work for me.
I love Ender’s Game and most of the other, but I am done with OSC.
“Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn. Biological imperatives trump laws. American government cannot fight against marriage and hope to endure. If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die,” – Orson Scott Card, Mormon Times.
Good for Card, taking a stand for marriage, its about time some one spoke up like that! Every one in America has the same right when it comes to marriage, why should any one get special treatment because they choose to be different?
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