Posted on 12/06/2012 12:21:15 PM PST by EveningStar
Anyone who has read Orson Scott Card’s beloved 1985 sci-fi novel, Ender’s Game, can understand why, for the past 20 years, Hollywood has been unable to adapt the book. After all, it’s challenging enough to shoot a movie about pint-sized military recruits fighting each other in a futuristic, space-set Battle School, but it’s an even taller order to capture the novel’s complex themes about war and morality...
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Well he is 70.
Wow! I remember reading that story when it first came out! I hadn’t remembered the name of it, but I certainly remembered the story!
Thanks for the link, it brought back memories of sitting in the school library for hours on end reading Analog, Astounding, and Galaxy!
Cheers!
Terminate the colonel’s command.
He also didn’t even know he’d killed the kid. He only found that out much later. I’m going to have to go back and re-read it now. It’s right up there with Dune for me, I’ve read both numerous times.
Why destroy the story with a “love interest”?
I see they are in PJ’s instead of sleeping nude?
I also notice 2 or 3 girls in that pic... I think there might have been 2 in the whole school in the book
please tell me the little black kid isn’t Bean?
My cousin (lives in Jackson Hole) knows him a little. He used to come into the restaurant where she worked, quite often. Said that you'd never know he was there, unless you waited on him.
She also said that he does a lot of volunteer flying - fire patrols, searching for lost hunters / hikers, and so on. Stuff that you never read about in Entertainment Weekly.
As far as politics is concerned, my opinion is that reasonable men can...and should....disagree. Just because I don't like the way a man votes, doesn't make him a S.O.B.
He always looked constipated and stoned,mumbling and sneering. Looking like that at 72 isn`t intimidating it`s crotchety and sad. There are no action hero grandpas...time for geezer roles.
I can’t remember if it is in the short-story or the book, but there is a scene where Ender has to talk to another cadet—a female—and she is naked. His response is sort of a numb, so-what? The idea that they might have some type of relationship doesn’t seem to be a possibility in his mind.
He was like 8, she wasn’t much older. Not exactly a lot of hormones or development there.
One movie very underrated is Extraordinary Measures. It is a 2010 medical drama film starring Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, and Keri Russell. It is distributed by CBS Films and was released on January 22, 2010. It is about parents who form a biotechnology company to develop a drug to save the lives of their children, who have a life-threatening disease. The film is based on the true story of John and Aileen Crowley, whose children have Pompe’s disease. The film was shot in St. Paul, Oregon, Portland.
Worth RENTING as a family movie!
Card is one of my favorite authors and Enders Game was my introduction to him. I picked up Speaker for the Dead, and then realized I needed to read Enders Game first.
I’m working my way through the Pathfinder series. It’s not easy reading, but it’s intriguing.
I’m really looking forward to the Enders Game movie.
I could be wrong, but I am fairly certain I saw something in the last couple of years that made me swear off of anything starring Harrison Ford. It wasn’t a small thing, either. It wasn’t good.
And that wasn’t easy to do, because I did enjoy his work, and I clearly remember being extremely disappointed and thinking “Hell. Pretty soon I won’t be able to watch, listen or do anything without feeling like I am violating my principles.
I would like to believe your version, so I will try to keep an open mind until I can figure out what it was that irritated me so mightily.
The enemy’s gate is down.
Not to mention a vocal Conservative, over in Guilford County, NC.
There a couple of things I hated about the book.
The “nudity” being one of them, it made no sense.
I already can tell I will be disappointed by this film- just from the picture posted
I fear this movie adaptation will be as good as the one for Starship Troopers.
I hope I am wrong.
His book “Folk on the Fringe” was purely Mormon propaganda, but Ender’s Game is more like Heinlien’s work - the morality is interlaced with a compelling story.
I live about a mile from Orson Scott Card and occasionally see him at the grocery or sub shop.
He is the most unassuming, humble person with hit books and an upcoming movie that I imagine exists.
I love Card’s books. I’ll see the movie.
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