Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...

This is one of those projects that’s been bounced around for years and years now, and I can see the appeal. There’s a great film waiting to be made just as soon as someone cracks it, and it sounds like they’re getting closer. Check it out:

Hey Harry,

I sat in on an Orson Scott Card lecture this evening at the University of Missouri in Columbia. While he spent most of the lecture speaking on his theory that the stories passed down through generations has shaped our culture - which was interesting, he did manage to talk a lot about the status of the Ender's Game movie.

Apparently the studio option on the book runs out on December 7th and he has, what I would characterize as, a moderate hope that the movie will become a reality. He plans to sit down with Wolfgang Peterson after he squares away the Posideon Adventure and give his latest script idea, which he described as a combination of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, one final try. He said that if the deadline comes and goes then he will most likely end the attempt to bring the book to the big screen. Card was hopeful that the combination of the two books will work out the script problems in that the "buddy" movie approach would open up a practical way to reveal Ender's thoughts without any dreaded internal dialouge.

He sincierly seemed commited to coming up with a script that remained faithful to the original material - even if he doesn't write the script personally. Card said that the special effects would be revolutionary, ruling out wires or the Apollo 13 diving airplane technique, and that effects houses are lining up to get involved should the movie recieve the green light.

He also said that he would deny everything that he said tonight (and he will probably will) so if you feel better about waiting on this news until the deadline or if you want to run with it it is your perogative. Either way I don't mind and the info is now yours.

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I’m going to be interviewing Wolfgang Petersen very soon, so I’ll make sure to ask him about this at that point.

"Moriarty" out.