ENDER'S GAME Lands at Summit Entertainment Gavin Hood Directing!
Is Orson Scott Card's classic science fiction novel Ender's Game finally going to get it's big screen adaptation!? It sure as hell looks like it! Summit Entertainment has just acquired the US rights the the book, and as previously reported X-Men Origins: Wolverine director Gavin Hood is set to direct from a script that he wrote, which frightens me.
Good lord I hope Hood knows what he's doing, I lack faith in this guy as a director. I'm not a big fan, especially after I saw what he did with Wolverine. That film was a complete mess. Hood is by far not my first choice as a director for this film. I just don't think he has what it take to adapt this story, but now that he's doing it hopefully he proves me wrong.
Summit picked up the series in hopes that it will end up being another successful franchise for them. This story has incredible film potential, and could be such a huge success... if it's done right. Because if it's not, the fans of the book will turn on it, and the franchise could fail.
Ender's game is one of my favorite book series of all time, so I want to see it get the best film adaptation as possible. My biggest fear is that they will cast all of the main characters at an older age, which would kill the movie. One of the coolest things about the story is how young the main characters are. There are so many other changes that they could make to the story that will ruin it as a film though.
Star Trek writers and producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are attached as producers to the movie. Their involvement is the only reason I think this movie has a chance of getting a good adaptation. As much as I want this movie to be awesome and succeed, with Hood on board I don't think we're going to get the Ender's Game adaptation that we have all hoped for.
If for some reason you haven't read this book series yet you need to start because it's pretty freakin' incredible.
What are your thoughts on this team developing Ender's Game for the big screen?
Here's the description of the book:
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. 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.
