Posted on 07/14/2012 9:35:42 AM PDT by EveningStar
Orson Scott Card's 1985 Hugo and Nebula Award winning science fiction novel, Ender's Game, is finally coming to the cinema.
Principal photography has been completed. The film is in post production and is scheduled for release on November 1, 2013.
Gavin Hood is the director and Card is one of the producers.
Asa Butterfield is in the title role and other cast members include, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Moises Arias, Aramis Knight, Hailee Steinfeld, Jimmy Pinchak, Abigail Breslin, and Viola Davis.
For more information, see IDMb, Wikipedia, and the Ender's Game Blog.
That would be awesome; I’d definitely go see that.
If Hollywood could pull it off it would create a phenomenon bigger than when Star Wars a New Hope came out.
Has to be at least a trilogy. has to contain how Spartan 117 came to be, how he became the last of the Spartans, how the battle was fought on the Halo ring, fought on Earth, including the Forerunners, and of course why the Halo rings were made.
Actually a six part series would be better.
Thanks for the ping. I loved the book and hope the movie turns out well.
I was listening to the audio book of Dune when I was at work, and hearing all the Arabic overtones kinda made me uneasy. I wound up not finishing it and I don’t much to anyway.
Honestly, I think they’d be fine to mirror the game series. The first Halo game described who/what Master Chief and Cortana are very well, it described what the Halo worlds are and why they are there, established the Covenant and the Flood. I haven’t played “Halo 2”, but “Halo 3” was also well-told and a good cap to the saga. Then follow up with “Halo: Reach” to show how the events unfolded into what happened in the Halo Trilogy.
Of course, the question must be asked—does a movie series even need to be made? The games did such a great job of telling the story, I can’t help but think movies just open up the possibility of ruining the story. I think the same of “God of War” for that matter.
Actually making Halo come to life would be too challenging for Hollywood nowadays. Maybe either Stephen Speilberg or George Lucas when they were younger.
Check out the Youtube video of the teaser trailer for Halo 4, its on the web, I have seen a small part at the moviehouse, thought it was an actual real life movie, but its just the teaser for the game coming out in november.
I read somewhere that Denzel Washington was once considered for the role of the Master Chief, and that the helmet would have a transparent visor, rather than the shimmering gold one we all know.
While I think Washington is a good actor, he would be at the bottom of my personal list for people who play that role. He just wouldn’t be the right guy for the job.
The full reveal video for Halo 4 was over 7 minutes long, and really made the nerd side of me jump for joy.
One good reason for making one or a few Halo movies is that you could actually sit back and watch it unfold, without worrying about dying, and enjoy it. I know there’s the whole issue of immersion in gaming, but if a Halo movie is made well enough, it could chart on the record books.
Heaven save us if they try to sneak in a CGI stretched Tom Cruise.
Obviously a no-name actor, but someone much like a Rutger Hauer person would better, first off it has to be a personna of what the MC is both physically in size and with the hard core dedicated warrior mindset, of which Hollyweird seems to have lost.
I have not been on the halo gaming forums in quite a bit but the Halo 4 release at one time had a rumor it had to be played on a new console dubbed the XBOX 720.
Supposed to be Bluray capable and with advanced Kinect features.
A person could create a lively thread posting one just about the upcoming Halo 4 game.
A lot more interesting than some political sniping and mudslinging topics I would say, I might even do it myself.
But if anyone does feel free to add me to the ping list, I have been just lurking and ducking for cover here at FR this last week.
The film of ST was a satire and a pretty good one.
Not Muslim - Sufi.
Take out the murder of non-believers, the enslavement of women, the killing of those who want to leave, and all the rest of the perversion, and emphasize peace, compassion and the Practice of the Presence of God, and you have what Herbert based Dune on.
Sufism - Islam, before it went insane.
Can you remember all the books in the series? I got lost in all those extended lives and re-genetic stories
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