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[bierman]

My daughter just informed me that Summit Entertainment has announced plans to make Ender's Game into a movie. Asa Butterfield from Hugo to play Ender Wiggen and Harrison Ford to play Col. Hyrum Graff. Viola Davis and Ben Kingsley sre cast as well. Supposed to be out November 1, 2013. Here's hoping they don't screw it up too badly. One of my all time favorite sci-fi stories.

[Hammar]

I don't see how they could make this one live up to the book. Fingers crossed but expecting a disappointment.

[Chris iliff]

One of my favorite books. Hope they don't screw it up.

[diablodawg]

Looks pretty solid on IMDB. Harrison Ford should be good. I'm not sure what I think of Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham, but he is an incredible actor. I am really looking forward to this.

[9X23Guy]

The book was actually on the Army reading list for many years.

[NTD]

I'm in the same camp as the others...The book is in my top 5 and every time an Ender movie is mentioned I start feeling bi-polar. If they get it right it could be awesome!

[splitime]

Add another to the list hoping they do it justice. By far my favorite book.

[Griz]

It's my absolute favorite book and there is no way a movie adaptation can do it justice... I actually hope they take the Starship Troopers route and don't even try to do a faithful adaptation and instead do something totally different. (and for the record, I enjoyed both Starship Troopers the book and the movie as totally different works that share only the title).

Edited by Griz, 24 June 2012 - 11:00 AM.

[Gantz]

I haven't done much research, but from what I understand they're going to make all the kids a little older. If I remember correctly, it was something like 10-12 before kids start going to battle school. Like you guys, I adore this book, and really hope the movie does it justice.

[Graham Smith]

The fundamental problem is that most novels don't translate well to film. They are too long so have to be drastically cut and frequently contain "inner dialog" which doesn't work in a movie.

Then you have the fact that the producer(s), screenwriter(s), editor(s), and director all want to put their interpretation into it and you end up with something that is often abandoned before it even starts shooting. Frankly, it's a wonder that any novels have ever successfully been made into movies.

If you want an example of how badly wrong even a good attempt can go, look at what happened to Christopher Paolini and Eragon. The story had the guts ripped out in order to compress it into a movie and the result, now matter how well intended, was a flop - even with fans of the book.

[benos]

My daughter just informed me that Summit Entertainment has announced plans to make Ender's Game into a movie. Asa Butterfield from Hugo to play Ender Wiggen and Harrison Ford to play Col. Hyrum Graff. Viola Davis and Ben Kingsley sre cast as well. Supposed to be out November 1, 2013. Here's hoping they don't screw it up too badly. One of my all time favorite sci-fi stories.

That was a great book. I'm not a sci-fi book person generally. But I read it many years ago, on a recommendation from TGO himself.
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[furyalecto]

It is one of my favorite books. It would seem very easy to get it wrong & hard to get right.

[Gantz]

I see it being really difficult to capture Ender's genius. All his internalized thoughts will be hard to incorporate. I have a feeling they'll just go largely for the action of battle school and the bugger battles. Maybe have a sweet soundtrack and possibly turn it into another Tron. Don't get me wrong... I freaking loved Tron, but I just really want to see this done properly.

[technetium-99m]

This is a book that every kid who is head and shoulders above classmates should read, a fantastic story.

I don't have a lot of faith for the movie capturing any of the stories core concepts.

[bierman]

Update: Orson Scott Card is producing, so I am a bit more hopeful they will get this one a bit closer to right.

[T3P_Guy]

Enders Game is one of my favorites as well, the other really good book of the series is Ender's Shadow, it tells the story in the same time frame but from the point of view of Bean. It is quite good as it offers a different perspective on the story that is fresh and entertaining.

At the end of the audiobook for Ender's Shadow Orson Scott Card talks about eventually making Enders Game into a movie and he discovered that it would be possible to do a good film if he kind of combines the two books as the story in each one is pretty much from an individual perspective...

"The enemy's gate is down"

[fudd]

+++ to the above. One of the best books I have ever read, I have read it twice in the last 15 years. The second time just for the enjoyment of revisiting it. This is one movie I would wait in line to see.