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Orson Scott Card shares micro-bits regarding ENDER'S GAME!

Hey folks, Harry here the latest in the seemingly neverending trials of bringing Orson Scott Card's wonderful ENDER'S GAME to the big screen. I can't wait for Wolfgang Petersen to do this one. This could be a great great film.

Ho guys,

Orson Scott Card said the following in his Hatrack forums (direct link: Orson's Hatrack!), regarding changes being down for Ender's Game, and acknowledging the difficulty using child actors:

1. We compress the action of the book to one year, and the youngest of the characters (Bean) is about nine or ten.

2. It's very hard to work with child actors, but it can be done, as witness the stellar performances of every child actor in Peter Pan and Finding Neverland.

-Bean

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by DAS JANKE
May 21st, 2005
04:43:38 PM
First!
by Windfola
May 21st, 2005
04:43:45 PM
almost first
by ykb
May 21st, 2005
04:44:51 PM
Nice to hear that this project is moving along...
by DarthCorleone
May 21st, 2005
04:44:57 PM
ok, as for this story:
by DAS JANKE
May 21st, 2005
04:48:33 PM
Just as long as the cast is like 75% non-white
by Ribbons
May 21st, 2005
05:27:56 PM
Compressing the action to a year
by Ribbons
May 21st, 2005
05:29:21 PM
re: Just as long as the cast is like 75% non-white
by DAS JANKE
May 21st, 2005
05:57:28 PM
I havent finished this book
by The Data
May 21st, 2005
06:24:06 PM
Not political correctness so much as literary accuracy, jackass.
by DAS JANKE
May 21st, 2005
06:49:01 PM
Sci-fi almost certainly means CGI
by Gheorghe Zamfir
May 21st, 2005
06:52:37 PM
Oh, and Pan doesn't have anything on...
by Gheorghe Zamfir
May 21st, 2005
06:55:13 PM
I really think with OSC as involved as he is, this film can't go
by Bean_
May 21st, 2005
07:17:18 PM
Oh, if you guys are interested...
by Bean_
May 21st, 2005
07:24:41 PM
Acroyear
by MrCere
May 21st, 2005
07:47:25 PM
Wow Data
by PurdueSith
May 21st, 2005
11:25:48 PM
I've abandoned faith... it's taking to long and they're making t
by Russman
May 21st, 2005
11:27:18 PM
video game climax
by Draal16
May 21st, 2005
11:29:56 PM
The Data
by Russman
May 21st, 2005
11:30:58 PM
racism, blah blah blah
by HillaryLovesMe
May 22nd, 2005
12:07:43 AM
If this ever gets made...
by AeroB
May 22nd, 2005
12:09:37 AM
And the issue with race
by AeroB
May 22nd, 2005
12:14:45 AM
You know, I really respect OSC as a novelist...
by Elohim
May 22nd, 2005
12:17:22 AM
RE: HillaryLovesMe
by Elohim
May 22nd, 2005
12:33:20 AM
Sci-fi almost certainly means CGI?
by logofdoom
May 22nd, 2005
01:06:46 AM
Ender's Game rules
by Tacodave
May 22nd, 2005
01:32:21 AM
Oh, and...
by Tacodave
May 22nd, 2005
01:33:05 AM
One problem, no studio will EVER let a main character (a child n
by logofdoom
May 22nd, 2005
01:38:53 AM
logofdoom...
by Tacodave
May 22nd, 2005
03:13:48 AM
LOL
by Ribbons
May 22nd, 2005
03:25:22 AM
I'd put a lot of money on them not having this an all white movi
by spectrebeeyatch
May 22nd, 2005
03:56:14 AM
Yep, OSC has bad taste.
by Prankster
May 22nd, 2005
04:28:52 AM
Bring It On!
by Evil Chicken
May 22nd, 2005
04:50:10 AM
Prankster
by Ribbons
May 22nd, 2005
04:50:36 AM
This has been going on for years...
by jimmy_009
May 22nd, 2005
06:39:14 AM
OSC is a right-wing, fascist pig
by Jerri Blank
May 22nd, 2005
08:20:28 AM
Yes, he's conservative...
by AeroB
May 22nd, 2005
10:45:15 AM
Prankster and Jerri...
by Tacodave
May 22nd, 2005
01:01:36 PM
and AeroB
by Tacodave
May 22nd, 2005
01:02:40 PM
By the way, why is it that...
by AeroB
May 22nd, 2005
03:06:46 PM
OSC is indeed a fascist
by Jerri Blank
May 22nd, 2005
03:18:17 PM
Bush, Cheney, Rummy & Rove=fascists; OSC=Lieberman
by tombseye
May 22nd, 2005
04:01:17 PM
Jerri Blank:
by jimmy_009
May 22nd, 2005
04:03:57 PM
JerriBlank, that reminds me of a recent Daily Show episode
by tombseye
May 22nd, 2005
04:08:49 PM
Jimmy009, Jerri was paraphrasing
by tombseye
May 22nd, 2005
04:12:39 PM
What do I call the gay person who calls me "a breeder?" Is ther
by Oompa_Radar
May 22nd, 2005
05:01:56 PM
I don't think so...
by jimmy_009
May 22nd, 2005
05:08:43 PM
And now back to topic: Great book when I was in the 7th grade,
by Oompa_Radar
May 22nd, 2005
05:09:47 PM
Well fascism is an ideology that is now derogatory
by tombseye
May 22nd, 2005
05:11:18 PM
well the only valid point is that OSC didn't say all or most
by tombseye
May 22nd, 2005
05:14:20 PM
Tombseye
by Oompa_Radar
May 22nd, 2005
05:26:27 PM
Oompa, I'm not saying he needs to say gayness is wonderful
by tombseye
May 22nd, 2005
05:41:03 PM
Aaah! Tombseye!
by Tacodave
May 22nd, 2005
06:02:06 PM
Tacodave, hey that's fine if people don't like it
by tombseye
May 22nd, 2005
06:12:37 PM
Actually, a lot about the quote depends on your take on the "dis
by FluffyUnbound
May 22nd, 2005
06:15:30 PM
Jerri Blank
by AeroB
May 22nd, 2005
06:36:43 PM
Addressing two issues...
by Elohim
May 22nd, 2005
07:02:44 PM
YAY more off topic bullshit.....
by Hairy Nutsack
May 22nd, 2005
07:27:09 PM
Hairy Nutsack.
by Elohim
May 22nd, 2005
07:39:29 PM
aero, that's not what fascism means
by tombseye
May 22nd, 2005
07:49:14 PM
elohim, I agree that the media is ratings based
by tombseye
May 22nd, 2005
07:57:45 PM
Elitist Trek Basher, Movie Doomed to Suckage
by meersan
May 22nd, 2005
11:31:51 PM
meersan is blind...
by Tacodave
May 23rd, 2005
12:44:12 AM
Calling Orson Scott Card "conservative" is like calling Harry "c
by TheDevilsBidness
May 23rd, 2005
02:30:33 AM
Card is not that conservative
by AeroB
May 23rd, 2005
03:07:00 AM
Elohim.....
by Hairy Nutsack
May 23rd, 2005
04:15:39 AM
What religion was asimov?
by logofdoom
May 23rd, 2005
05:39:55 AM
I'm going to let this one drop...
by Elohim
May 23rd, 2005
08:24:54 AM
hairynutsack, that's so meaningless
by tombseye
May 23rd, 2005
09:04:09 AM
I agree with logofdoom
by Nizzuts
May 23rd, 2005
11:24:58 AM
how it ends
by pablo2004
May 23rd, 2005
11:44:07 AM
re: The Data
by celebopedia.com
May 23rd, 2005
12:30:54 PM
FUCK CARD!
by cutest_of_borg
May 23rd, 2005
03:07:24 PM

by cutest_of_borg
May 23rd, 2005
03:09:57 PM
Politics dropped.....
by Hairy Nutsack
May 23rd, 2005
04:05:38 PM
How about an on topic post.....
by Hairy Nutsack
May 23rd, 2005
04:19:21 PM
Great news!
by pizzatheface
May 23rd, 2005
06:28:21 PM
Hairy, hairy, hairy, I didn't say it was ok for kids to have sex
by tombseye
May 23rd, 2005
07:45:57 PM
about politics discussion & OSC
by tombseye
May 23rd, 2005
07:52:07 PM
Arch...
by Tacodave
May 24th, 2005
12:04:30 AM
Card is a raging nut who destroys his own film projects from wit
by battery
May 24th, 2005
02:03:12 PM
Tombseye, 16-year-olds shouldn't be having sex either.
by Ray Garraty #47
May 24th, 2005
03:34:52 PM
The Homecoming series.....
by Hairy Nutsack
May 24th, 2005
03:58:52 PM
why ray? & who decides that other than parents to some extent?
by tombseye
May 24th, 2005
04:11:25 PM
Hairy nutsack... (OSC paradox)
by battery
May 24th, 2005
04:33:09 PM
I'm not saying that it's MORALLY wrong.
by Ray Garraty #47
May 24th, 2005
06:03:28 PM
Never read Homecoming
by tombseye
May 24th, 2005
08:40:20 PM
Well Ray, I'm not entirely disagreeing with you actually
by tombseye
May 24th, 2005
08:50:27 PM
battery...
by Tacodave
May 25th, 2005
12:17:58 AM
Tombseye.....
by Hairy Nutsack
May 25th, 2005
04:42:48 AM
Point taken and understood
by Ray Garraty #47
May 25th, 2005
09:17:13 AM
"The majority of Hollywood's audience is white. Hollywood making
by minderbinder
May 25th, 2005
04:17:16 PM
political correctness aside, a multicultural cast is integral to
by logofdoom
May 25th, 2005
07:12:53 PM
stupidest post I've ever read...congratulations
by devil0509
May 26th, 2005
06:28:03 AM
yea, more pathetic poster rivalry adds a lot
by logofdoom
May 26th, 2005
07:02:21 AM
Harry Potter meets Star Wars...
by Carniphage
May 26th, 2005
02:13:01 PM
Hopefully a bit more off topic enlightenment.
by Jaewulfe
Jun 21st, 2005
07:00:15 AM

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