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Gobs and Gobs of the latest info on Orson Scott Card's ENDER'S GAME Film!!!
Harry here missing the great meal I had with Orson Scott Card back around Thanksgiving of last year. Damn that was a calorie ridden meal. Sigh... Come here carrot... crunch crunch crunch... Ah celery my old friend, crunch crunch crunch... Hehehe, This would make one hell of a movie and Miramax doing it would be a bit weird, though I must say that Robert Rodriguez would be ace for this film. He loves working with kids, but also loves hardcore serious science fiction and film noir. However, having said that, his slate is packed at the moment. After he finishes editing ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO and SPY KIDS 2, he has his next 3 films all in place... Hmmmmmm....
Hi Harry,
I believe one of my cohorts at the philoticweb.net already emailed you with the information about Miramax's interest in the "Ender's Game" project. That information is indeed legit, it came from Scott himself. I'm writing to confirm the information, and also to bring you up to speed on where the project is now. The following is a brief summary of all the movie news that can be found in the movie section of our website, PhiloticWeb. (kindof the force.net for Ender's Game, but much smaller):
Miramax is currently interested in the project
Richard LaGravenese is working with Card on the script ("Fisher King" for those of you that don't know your writers)
Card WILL NOT work with James Cameron again, despite his glowing essay on "The Abyss" DVD/LD Card disliked what he saw of Cameron's uber-tyrannical directing style, he wants to work with someone who respects actors and the people who work for him. I believe his exact quote is "he made everyone around him miserable, and his unkindness did nothing to improve the film in any way. Nor did it motivate people to work faster or better. And unless he changes his way of working with people, I hope he never directs anything of mine. In fact, now that this is in print, I can fairly guarantee that he will never direct anything of mine. Life is too short to collaborate with selfish, cruel people." From a Barnes and noble chat in august 99.
The character of Ender will be nine to ten in the movie, the older children will be twelve-thirteen
The events of the book are compressed to a one year timespan
Two major characters are combined into one (to spoil yourself check here at Screenplay )
The character of Stilson is not in the screenplay
Neither Jake Lloyd or Haley Joel Osment are attached to the project, both are too old to play the lead. ---- fyi, Jake Lloyd had a private interview with OSC in March of 1999 (note before the phantom menace). Jake had read Ender's Game on the set of Star Wars and really wanted to play Ender (he was nine at the time). Scott was so impressed with Jake's acting chops that he became convinced that a child could carry the film and wrote a second draft of the script with the focus on Ender, as in the books. When the Phantom Menace came out, everyone discovered that Lucas's non-direction of actors is horribly magnified in children's preformances, and Jake Lloyd's carreer was completely shot for life, before it ever got started and Jake got a chance to demostrate is ability.
Bernard is now Sebastian in the screenplay, there were too many S names
The Locke/Demosthenese subplot is of course gone, it is the most obvious thing to cut to keep runtime down.
The character of Major Anderson is now a woman (there will be no romance)
Certain characters and events from the parallell novel Ender's Shadow are being included in the screenplay
The mental bombardment by the 'buggers' Ender experiences in the book will be made very evident to the viewers early on in the film, and the adults will know it is happening, and discuss how it has caused others to fail.
The scientific/politically correct term for 'buggers' is formics, that will be the name professionals refer to them as, the name bugger may still remain as a derogatory adjective as used by the children, and teh low class.
That about wraps up most of the info available on the movie, anything else can be found here at PhiloticWeb
Personnally I think that Miramax is a great choice and the movie has the potential to succeed at about Gladiator's level if marketed and produced exactly right. The only major weakness I could see hindering the film version would be the inclusion of the Ender's Shadow elements. Personnally I think Scott should be working on distilling the Ender's Game story down to it's visceral narrative drive, that would really let the storytelling shine ala David Lean's "Great Expectations."
Adding those extreneous elements could be as self serving as Bill Goldman's baseball hero story to "Hearts in Atlantis," an adaptation that failed because every element that made it a Stephen King story was ruthlessly excised from the film version, and the result was a dark, disturbing, and mature coming-of-age story was transformed into a maudlin, nostalgic, and sentimental coming-of-age story. Imagine "Stand By Me" without any swearing, fireside chat, any of the characters having any worrys or problems, and no final send off, and you have a good approximation of what a disapointment "Hearts in Atlantis" was to those of us that had read the King story.
But Card is a fantastic writer and he's ruthlessly held on to the rights to get "Ender's Game" done right for fifteen years now, so the adaptation should be good, as long a solid director with a decent visual sense is holding the reigns we have the potential for a great film.
As Card said, everything is indefinite right now, they've only expressed interest (could this be the beginning of a series of speculative fiction films sparked by "Harry Potter" and (hopefully) "Lord of the Rings" success?) Only time will tell, but so far Card's avoided Brad Pitt as a fifteen year old Ender in '85 and Culkin in the nineties, so time has been on the good side so far.
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Ender's Game wasn't a very well written book, and it'
s theme of training children to fight wars may no longer be relevant in our times. -
That'd be hilarious, considering that Card has been boring people senseless for years with his ridiculous "Steven Spielberg and James Cameron aren't right for this movie" nonsense. Better yet, maybe Chuck Russell could direct it. I'm sure card would find him ideal. Sounds like the guy just doensn't want a director with a strong vision.
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Is my favorite book/series of all time. Who cares if a book is revelant today? Star Wars isnt releveant really, neither is LOTR or Harry Potter.
I really hope this movie gets made. and while I love OSC's writing I dont like his ego, he is constantly dissing Lucas and Speilberg because he is so jealous that they get all the attention and make billions of dollars and he writes books for a cult following style audience
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Oh, c'mon! Card is sitting in a nice house, on nice furniture, enjoying the riches his writings have given him. He may be a cantankerous fart but saying a director isnt right for his story doesnt make him envious of their success. Lucas did screw Jake Llyod's career. At least for the short term. Nah, nevermind. The kid got a major role in one of the biggest films of alltime. Thats not bad for a career. BUT had the kid been directed by someone capable of guiding a young actor (hell, any actor) he'd have been much better off. He didnt suck in it anymore or less than any other actor. Anyway, let Card bitch about who is going to direct his story. In the end it may not suck.
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Even if they really serve as an antidote to what you might perceive as a senseless, arbitrary world. That is what LotR has become for me in recent months.
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"Card WILL NOT work with James Cameron again..." Card seems to throw around a lot of sweeping character judgements here: "Life is too short to collaborate with selfish, cruel people." This is from his experience working on the novelization of the Abyss? Certainly he's entitled to his own opinion, but I'd like to see a little more elaboration and substantiation of this point of view. Also, if you're holding out for some wonderful specimen of humanity to direct your movie, you may have a long wait. Hollywood's not exactly rife with kind, generous people.
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As much as I respect OSC and don't doubt that "Ender's Game" is probably moving forward, the film has been in such a state of perpetual motion practically since the book was released. The above article is a lot of space to devote to the seemingly unending speculation about when this novel will ever make it to the screen.
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First off, why is it that his name and HJO's name are the only names I ever hear come up? Thank God that they are both too old now!
Whatever confidence I had in this film just went to real shaky ground. Why? Because if Orson Scott Card himself thinks Jake Lloyd was a good child actor and good enough to be Ender...then that shows me his taste is up his ass and I hope that the casting decisions are kept well away from him.
HJO? He's ok for certain films and I won't deny the kid's talent, but I think puberty is going to send him the way of Macauly Culkin. HJO can't go on forever with that "cute little boy" routine.
I read these books and IMHO, it's going to be a tough trick conveying some of these ideas on screen, not the least of which is you are actually going to have to find a child actor (probably going to have to be older than 9-10 to pull it off) that can really act and we believe is a super genius and sophisticated. The worst thing would be to see some kid come in and "play act" as an adult. That level of smarminess will assure this project a quick trip to the video clearance bin.
Fingers crossed!
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Even I have to defend Jake here a touch though, based on one comment in this piece.
Yeah, the vast majority (i.e. all) the reason TPM is an abomination is because of Lucas.
Even Liam Neeson snoozed on cruise control through that one.
Jake should get another chance with a real script so he can do some real acting. Warm him up on some other projects to see if he could handle being the center piece of a project like Ender.
It's just too bad that anyone who was part of TPM, especially a poor kid trying to get a start on his acting career, is going to have that blight working against him. -
Hmm, as much as I enjoy the adventures of young Harry Potter, there do seem to be some striking similarities between "Ender's Game" and the Potter books. As for "Ender's Game" being old and not relevant... Give me a break. As long as we have war, any kind of arms race and the desire to see excellent sci-fi, the time will always be right for Wiggin's ascent to the silver screen. The sooner the better.
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OK.. enough of "forward pessimisim".."
I loved Ender's Game. Ranks up there with my other favs (Lord of Light, Dune, Foundation, Wizard of Earthsea, The Forever War, Eon..etc)
Really. The issues they deal with are quite timeless discussions about morality, reality and possiblities. The "problem" with these ideas, is that they're pretty difficult to be translated into visual form- TV or Movie. Take the recent "Starship Troopers". How much of the book was about the (rather controversial) right-aligned society they have, compared to the small, classroom discussions Michael Ironside held?
The episode about how the marines dealt with deserters was a important part that the show missed out. Small, but significant in bringing out the author's subtle message
In Ender, without giving away too much of a spoiler, the ~theme~ of the show is so much more important. I can imagine the potential public that the movie-makers might find themselves fearing. If Harry Potter drew such a crowd on the "occult" issue, Ender would scream "child abuse". Yes, it's NOT what the story "promotes", but then, these are opinionated times, especially by the ignorant. Plus the fact that the original setting is quite dated now, this new "adaptation" will have to be very good indeed, to redeem it all. It has the added danger of swinging either way into the extremes of action-vs-talking interpretation. Worried about the movie?-Yes I am. Looking forward to watching?- you bet!. Besides, if it's good and movie-makers get the knack of making GOOD movies from books, we might get a future "Lord of Light: the movie" thingie :) -
I ~really~ we won't see a matrix-style fight of Ender beating up Bernard/Sebastion.
Or Bean say, "you are the One, Ender"..
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If we carry on comparing authors in the different genres they write in, we'd never get anywhere. Card is NOT Rowling. Rowling is NOT Thomas Hardy and so on. Card wrote about the frightening idea of ~using~ a child's fresh, naive mind against a racial enemy. The permutations and derivations from that idea are many: Viet-Cong child-soldiers, child-terrorists, you name it...
Of ~course~ he'd be different from Rowling.
Has anyone here read "A Wizard From Earthsea"? And compared the idea of a wizard-school to Hogwart? Think it'll add up? Before it sparks off new arguments, bear in mind the theme of Earthsea (the earning of responsibility and power) and that of Potter (*heh*).
BTW, IMHO, Earthsea is FAR better than Potter, not that I hate Potter, enjoyed the movie, really.. (I don't acknowledge "Tehanu", though..)
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Absent any real interest from actual film-makers, Card wastes a lot of time trying to sell the concept directly to the public, perhaps with the vain, deluded belief that his fans will rise up and march on Hollywood, trash and burn the place until they get their way.
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Another of his series that deserves a look at is his wonderful Tales of Alvin Maker. Wether or not they get made, the series deserves to be read. I cannot say enough good things about these books, well, maybe that the first three books are mindbogglingly fantastic while the last 2, well they are good but he really hits his stride in the first three. THis would be a great tv miniseries instead of dealing with features and having to cram too much stuff into a 2 hour pic. What makes the books even more incredible is the fact that Orson is Mormon, yet the different stances that the characters take on that subject are all over the place. Religious fervor, denouncement, radical devotion, spirits of the forest adn on and on. And Harry you lucky bastard, when and why did you meet Orson? That guy man, everytime i stop reading a book of his, i put the book down to breathe and say "wow".
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The biggest problem with the Ender series is that these books are inherently non-visual. If we look at Card's work, (and thank you, Ender&Bean, for pointing this out before I got a chance to) he dwells far more in the hearts of the characters than in their eyes. His books, while wonderful, will be VERY difficult to translate to the screen, because of his tendency toward long stretches of dialogue and the emphasis of philosophical, ethical, and moral dilemnas over places and events. Personally, I prefer Card's style. But I highly doubt that it will be translated well onto the screen. How do you think the Piggies would play out? In our mind's eye, we can accept them because what we see with our thoughts can be baised by Card's discussion. But made into a movie, they will get laughed off the stage. (I know that Ender's Game doesn't have the Piggies, but I imagine a series out of this.)
And Bubba Franks is right... the series that deserves to be made into film is definitely the Alvin Maker series. It's a much more visual series, and is far more deep and poignant. The visual symbolism alone would make it worth the price of admission. Unfortunately, this one isn't even finished yet, so we'll have to wait for Card to end the series before we see it on screen. (And what was with Heartfires? Didn't we read that book when it was called Alvin Journeyman?) -
I hope "Ender's Game" gets made. It's a great story with some interesting ideas, but of course it pales in comparison to it's sequel "Speaker for the Dead", one of the greatest science-fiction books ever written. I'd love to see "SftD" on the big screen, with loads of little piggies running around.
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For the full story, read "Future on Ice," a collection of Sci-Fi short stories edited by Card. He has an essay introducing each stories, and in one of them he tells of his encounter with James Cameron (although he never names the man specifically, it's not hard to figure out who he's talking about). He essentially describes Cameron's arrogant, bullying style, singling out one incident where Cameron viciously and publicly upbraided an assistant for something that wasn't really his fault. Card points out that Cameron tended to do this only to subordinates--he never unleashed any "righteous artistic anger" towards anyone who was on equal or superior footing within the industry. After that, Card vowed that Cameron would never be involved in any of his projects, believing that it's not unreasonable to expect talented people to also behave as civilized people. Personally, I'm with Card on this one. Somebody above pointed out that Hollywood doesn't have too many angels on it's directorial list--maybe not, but Steve Spielber, George Lucas and Ron Howard have all done pretty well, and according to most everything I've read they've done it without being abusive to their cast and crew (Lucas, if anything, has a reputation for being TOO accomodating to his actors and crew). I believe that the only way the jerks in this world will get any justice--even talented jerks--is if the rest of us hold them accountable for their behavior. Kudos to Card.
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What are you talking about? Just because he's Mormon doesn't make him a brainwasher
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As much as I like Orson Scott Card, and I really do... this guy is a Mormon that vehemently hates homosexuals, and he called the alien enemies in his books "The Buggers". And while I won't spoil the book, let's just say that it's not about loving your enemy and spreading peace and love across the universe. Does anyone else see these things eventually coming up, either in Miramax getting cold feet or the media absolutely blasting the film when it's ready to be released? Don't get me wrong, I think he's entitled to his opinions and that most of them are very interesting, but I see Miramax getting cold feet either before or after the media gets involved with this, and the project either being shelved or marketed so badly that it doesn't even break even. I don't have high hopes for this project.
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Ho hum... Orson Scott Card has been making grand announcements about the Ender's Game film project for years now - in fact, he's the ONLY one you hear making grand announcements about it! Whether it was a good book or not, whether it would be a great movie or not, I'll take anything this guy says about Ender's Game getting off the ground with a dumptruck of salt - as far as I can tell he seems to be the only one in Hollywood interested in putting this thing together. And anyway, wouldn't his other book, The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, make a MUCH cooler movie?
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what kind of clouded logic do you use? OSC hates homosexuals because the general public in one of his books uses the phrase "Bugger" to name an alien race?
PLEASE!! That's like saying that George Lucas is for slavery because he depicts slavery in one of his movies.
The offical name for the alien race in EG is "the Formics," a perfectly acceptable name. Someone thought it would be funny to name them "Buggers," probably because it's also a curse word in the British vernacular, with a meaning similar to an American four letter word that starts with "F".
Your assertion is ridiculous.
As far as the actual project is concerned, I do agree with you. I don't have high hopes for this one either, primarily because the material in EG doesn't lend itself towards a visual representation. That and finding quality child actors that could handle this kind of heavy material is tough (thus the re-write). And with that gone, much of the heart of the story is gone, too. -
As for OSC's "mormonism" it's very prevalant in the Alvin Maker tales (which I love btw) not so much so in Ender's Game...I think Alvin Maker would be a better place to try and go for OSC they are much better visually then Ender.
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hey folks...........I have to say that I've been waiting for this one for a long time....very long.....but I have to admit, I'm pretty worried about the changes mentioned in the above story....pretty drastic, and i'm just not sure if the true greatness of EG can survive those types of modifications............however....i must admit....i've been yearning for years and years to see the games in the battle school on the big screen.....those battles with the kids bouncing around in zero g....gawd....they were the stuff of daydreams when i was a kid and first read this book..........but can the book be done justice is the question.....if theyr'e starting out by chincing us on the pulverization of the Stilson character (a defining moment i think in young enders life) how can we expect the fight with Bonzo Madrid to mean anything?....it wouldn't have the same emotional meaning without the stilson fight at the start of the movie....also, would they weaken the brutality of the story?.....my guess is YES.....it would be brought down to atleast pg 13....thats fine when it's tons of ork blood, and everyone knows it's a fantasy..but to REALLY show 9 year olds beating each other to death.....well....for those of you that read the book....do you think theyd film that scene as is....of course not.....and while i can sort of understand that (lets face it, naked 12 year olds in a shower room covered in blood would upset just about every parent in the world) i thnk it would ruin the movie to change such a peak in the story......so let's hear it from all you other OSC fans.......should the movie be made if a) it's no longer driven by a child-actor....and b) if the changes in the above story are true.....---c'mon...some of them are ok..who cares if they change bernards name..but Mjor Anderson a woman?...what gives.......oh and one more thing.......this whole 'formics' thing is a freaking JOKE.......they were called the buggers in the original printing...JUST buggers......as in they are BUGS!!!!...bugs people....no 'homophobia......no 'its a swear word in england.....it was meant as a refernce to BUGS..as in the buggers looked like big ass ants.....more or less.......__________________________________ok rant over.....i just hate the way the name 'formics' kind of came in.....its appologistic to re-write what a character is refered to.....just to make some people happy.....OSC should just a have left that one alone.......IMHO........oh.....i actually got to meet Orson years ago at a booksigning for Xenocide when it came out......he was absolutely charming....a really nice guy.....very friendly and funny as hell.........theres something to be said about meeting your personal heros.....sometimes they don't quite stack up to what you had in mind...but in Orsons case....he was WAY beyond what i had hoped for....a truly sweet nice guy......cheers.....exador
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So OSC is a Morman. Big deal. That means he is trying to brainwash us all? Give me a break. I sure as hell wasn't brainwashed by anything he wrote. Were you? Are you sure you aren't suffering from a degree of religious intolerance? I have seen a large amount of religious intolerance in AICN talkbacks over the years. Does being a Catholic make you a bad author because you might brainwash people with your Catholic ideas? What about being a Jew or a member of Islam? If OSC was not a member of the Mormon church would you have still thought him a homophobe based on what was in his books? I doubt it. That theme just isn't there so far as I know. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think so. OSC books are great reads concerning things that are relevant to our time and all times. If there is some distinctly Morman content in the book that has you bothered and you feel that its nefarious influence is brainwashing you then you need to step away for a while. Do yourself a favor and stop reading him. I for one will continue reading him. I find his ideas and messages to be very universal. Now Bob Can is correct. There is far more of a mormonism content in Alvin Maker but OSC freely admits it. There is nothing nefarious about it. Brainwashing? No. If you don't like the ideas of the Mormon church then read these books simply for what they are: good science fiction with some great universal themes and appeal, nothing more. I believe that is what Card would want you to do.
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Dec 04, 2001 6:12:24 PM CST
What Ender did to Stilson is one of the most absolutely crucial
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While it's true that a film adaptation would have problems replicating the subtle internal characterizations of the book, Ender's Game has other things going for it that would translate wonderfully on screen. It's pacing is frenetic, and story absolutely gripping. Every scene is vivid and tense. Anyone who thinks this story promotes child abuse has forgotten what it's like to be a kid. Ender is dark child fantasy A-1. The small insignifcant runt kicking ass and saving the universe. But with consequences. You can strip it down to bare bones and still have a whale of a morality tale. As far as crappy child actors go, watch a movie made outside of hollywood for a change, it seems like in every foreign film i see there is an absolutely brilliant performance by an unknown child actor. Movies with kids in them can be made for adults. There is the perfect Ender waiting out there for someone with depth and vision to utilize. Cameron would be nice but Titantic has effectively nuetered him. The man who would be perfect is Jean-Pierre Juenet. Yeah his follow-up to City of Lost Children was the horrific Alien 4, but every brilliant foreign director seems to makes a turkey when they come to hollywoe. Peter Jackson made the Frighteners after all.
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...and they all say he's the worst human being on the face of the earth. On the contrary, everyone I know who's worked with Spielberg say he's extremely courteous and professional, calling everyone down to the lowliest p.a. by their first name. You don't need to be a colossal prick to be a good director, a good drill sargeant maybe, but not a director or a producer for that matter. I take my hat off to Orson Scott Card for sticking by his personal convictions.
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what if Enders was successful.... wouldn't it be cool to shoot a counterpart movie for bean??? the way Ender's shadow complemented the Ender's game... I wonder if the same effect can be acheived.
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Not only are you wrong on the homophobe deal, but you can't even understand the book. Vash said it about the "bugger" bit (also, they WERE bugs, after all) - but you obviously missed the point that the ENTIRE human race was WRONG in exterminating the formics. They acted rashly, without enough forethought, and with a regrettable outcome. Even if he did equate buggers w/ homosexuals (which is ludicrous), it would not prove homophobia, but the opposite! The buggers were the unjustly treated VICTIMS. YOU are the one that seems a bit brainwashed - take your crusade elsewhere.
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Ender's Game was a great book. I have gotten more people to start reading SF with that book than any other. In my opinion Speaker for the Dead was even better. As far as fantasy goes, Seventh Son, Red Prophet and Prentice Alvin are all great. But somewhere in there, Card realized that people would buy whatever he wrote. He stopped trying to be entertaining, and tried to be enlightening--but it just comes off preachy. When I met my wife eight years ago, Card was her favorite writer. I used to buy her limited-edition, signed, leather bound versions of his books. Now even she can't stand him. I couldn't even get her to pick up Ender's Shadow, despite assuring her it was the best thing he'd written in years. Not even I would read Shadow of the Hegemon once I read that Achilles was back to menace Bean. But Jake Loyd and James Cameron are both assholes.
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I thoroughly agree with him about Cameron, but most people are too sissy to come right out and bitch out the 800-pound gorilla that Cameron has become. From everything I've heard about his working style, it amazes that anyone will work with him twice...except for Schwarzenegger, who, as we all know, has his own behavioural issues. I don't care how talented or successful Cameron is, a dick is a dick, and I agree that life is too short to deal with dicks (Card's religion restrains him from using such language, but that's basically what he said). I've met the man, he's a nice, regular guy, and "Ender's Game" is still one of my favorite science fiction novels. I thought at the time of my first reading that it would make a great movie, and I still think so. But I just know Cameron would throw a love story and some other hackneyed crap at it, and I'd rather see it not be made than endure that. I am the Saint of the Buggers.
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Every studio is now searching for an epic child-led film that ends nicely (oh look... AI started that, Harry Potter continues).
Personally i would like to see a film of Game Of Thrones by George r.r. Martin. It would be on the same scale as LOTR but it would be nice to at least see the casting choices.
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Dec 05, 2001 7:13:25 PM CST
"it' s theme of training children to fight wars may no longe
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Christ. There are about 300,000 children younger than 18 presently in military service across the world. If you don't believe, look here: http://www.child-soldiers.org/report2001/global_report_contents.html.
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If you have read the books following Ender's Game, it really felt like Ender's Game was intented as sunny "conventional" storyline counterpoint to what turned out to be a series of unconventional yet incredibly sour depressing novels. I am really glad he made the shadow books because all the stuff that seemed really interesting happened offscreen at the conclusion of Ender's game.
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Black will be white...Up will be down...Male characters will now be female....2 characters are combined into one....And everyone will have a foot coming out of thier respective forehead. What a pant load. Oh yea, held on to it for years until it could be done right....RIIIIIIGHT. How hacked up can an original story get before it's not really that story anymore. This sounds like an abomination in the making. Abort!!!Abort!!!!
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I'm a french student.I study cinema and all i can say is that Ender's game is one of the best book i've ever read and Rodriguez is one of the worst director i've ever seen.So please, don't let him destroy such a beautiful story.Why didn't they tried to do Ender's game as an animated feature film.just watch kon's work on "perfect blue".that's exactly what card's movie needs.a very intensive director:intelligent,weird and violent.And kon knows that a good story is not about special effects or gunfights!!
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you are an asshole.Frighteners is just jackson's best movie ever .It's one of the best ghost story and the directing is amazing.If you can't see that,you should put out the shit that covers your eyes.Jean pierre Jeunet is an excellent director but he's not good at that kind of story.too dark,too much introspective.Jeunet is good at fairy tales.The director this movie needs is Lynch or a japanese director (kioshi kurosawa,mamoru oshii or Satoshi Kon like i said.)
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There's been a lot of talk about how OSC has been pedantic about his choice for a director/actor etc. But stop and think for a second. Let's say he decided to go with Brad Pitt in 1985.
What type of movie would that have been? Can you remember the last 80's movie that had decent special effects? (Star Wars doesn't count btw).
Having people in zero gee is a difficult thing to film, specially with them doing formations and so forth, untill of course Ender puts his thing down!
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