Enders Game: The Movie

[tarcone]

Holy smokes. I had no idea they were making this into a movie. It is being released in 2013. November 1st to be exact.
It stars Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin, Asa Butterfield.

This is one of my favorite books. I hope they do it justice.

[MacroGuru]

Holy smokes. I had no idea they were making this into a movie. It is being released in 2013. November 1st to be exact.
It stars Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin, Asa Butterfield.

This is one of my favorite books. I hope they do it justice.

Well then, it picked up more legs since I last heard about it...

Ford as Graff and Kingsley as Rackham..I could see..

The kid that played Hugo as Ender...solid pick.

Alright...take my money now...

[PackerFanatic]

Interesting. It's been a while since I have read the book, but I really enjoyed it. Be interesting to see how it translates

[spleen1015]

Han Soto is in a movie with Han Solo. Cool!

Looking forward to this!

[DaddyTorgo]

There's a blog about the making of the movie.

[DaddyTorgo]

ENDER'S GAME BLOG (http://endersgameblog.tumblr.com/)

[IlliniCub]

I remember reading it when I was in middle school, didn't read the rest of the series really. Is the series as a whole beyond Enders game worth me getting into?

[MacroGuru]

I remember reading it when I was in middle school, didn't read the rest of the series really. Is the series as a whole beyond Enders game worth me getting into?

I didn't like Speaker for the dead and those books, but the Ender'sShadow series I really liked..

[Groundhog]

I read a few of them, can't remember which ones. Didn't like any of them as much as I did the first.

[SirFozzie]

As I said on the FB blog of one of the Facebook FOFCers..

"Great book, too bad the guy is a jackass"

Although the (un) holy trinity of conservative fiction book writers would include him, Tom Kratman (who wrote an alien invasion book where the SS were HEROES!!!), and John Ringo..

[Groundhog]

Oh yeah, completely forgot about his doucheness.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Although the (un) holy trinity of conservative fiction book writers would include him, Tom Kratman (who wrote an alien invasion book where the SS were HEROES!!!), and John Ringo..

Ringo is DA MAN. And the book with Kratman actually made sense in context of the universe where the series is set.

[SirFozzie]

I'll give Ringo a ton of credit, he responded so well to the OH JOHN RINGO NO issue, and freely admits that his books have a certain lean to them (the fact that he had the proceeds from the Oh John Ringo No T-shirt go to a battered women shelter)..

At least he's relatively good natured about things :)

[JonInMiddleGA]

and freely admits that his books have a certain lean to them

Heh, that's a polite way to put it I suppose.

Ringo isn't writing Shakespeare for sure, but they're among the most purely fun reads of my life. Posleen was a ripping good read and I really enjoyed the universe for The Council Wars

[Barkeep49]

I remember reading it when I was in middle school, didn't read the rest of the series really. Is the series as a whole beyond Enders game worth me getting into?
Ender's Game happens to by my all-time favorite book.

I think Speaker for the Dead is a fantastic book but it's really a completely different book than Ender's Game both tonally and thematically. I think much of the rest of that strain goes off the rail. I think Ender's Shadow is very good. The rest of the Shadow line is probably worth reading, but it too can go off the rails at points.

[gstelmack]

I didn't like Speaker for the dead and those books, but the Ender'sShadow series I really liked..

Agreed here.

I'll see the movie, but it's one of those that will be easy to be disappointed in.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I'm thinking they've gotta go PG-13 for this one. Right?

Actor playing Ender is 15, actress playing Valentine is 16, actor playing Bean is 13.

I'm thinking they've gotta clean the movie up enough to avoid the R.

[MacroGuru]

Now can they do the movie justice? Absolutely. Will they? That is to be seen.

But with the advancement of technology in movies and the special effects, I truly believe this has the potential to be jaw dropping.

But part of the reason this book has taken so long to be produced is Cards unwillingness to bend on certain things..like the Ender fight scenes which were pretty wicked in the books and jaw dropping. And honestly, just visualizing the Hugo kid going through those and the emotions after...I am cheering at the thought.

I think it will get a PG-13 rating, you have to get the kids into this..my 12 and 15 year old LOVE the book and we will be there good or bad.

[RendeR]

That is the whole problem with making this movie though. There are themes in here that push even MY limits of acceptability. Child abuse, animal cruelty, genocide, and very overt sexual overtones between children.

Remember that Ender is only like 6 in the book. Just to put this on a screen without an R rating they have to gut some very MAJOR scenes and plot driving items.

I'm not saying they can't make it work, but I am very fearful that even the items that must be changed to bring the kids ages into semi-acceptable range for the general public not to throw a hissy fit will severely damage the story.


I love this book. I've read it half a dozen times (though not in about a decade now, need to pull it out again) but I have some major reservations about this becoming a film.

[Pyser]

first trailer is out

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[INDalltheway]

So excite.

[Pyser]

i dont think its a good trailer, but its obviously aimed at people who dont know the story

[cschex]

I actually thought the station and the Battle Room looked .... good. I watched preparing to hate it, but now I kind of want to see it.

[Coffee Warlord]

Yeah, that trailer gave me some reservations.

[tarcone]

Hmmmm. Im worried now. It looks like special effects trump story? I hope not.

[spleen1015]

You guys are nucking futs. IT LOOKS AWESOME!

[Coffee Warlord]

Looks, yes.

We're worried it's gonna be all looks. :)

[MacroGuru]

I am fine with it. It was going to have to be a special effects movie, we all knew that.

I can't wait.

[cschex]

I am concerned about them fitting everything into one movie without making it 3 hours long. That will lose a lot of the character depth for some important secondary characters and condense some important scenes

[PackerFanatic]

I need to read the book again soon, but I will definitely be seeing the movie at some point (if only to hate it and praise the book more, lol)

[Pyser]

effects look pretty good in the new teaser

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[MacroGuru]

With the 2 teasers and trailer that is out. November can't come fast enough.

[Peregrine]

I was really not won over by the trailer, but will almost certainly end up seeing it.

[DaddyTorgo]

If you really need another reason not to support OSC besides his anti-gay vitriol, check this out.

He's a full-on birther/racist/ "Obama is training armies of street gangs to go out and beat up white America" whack-a-doo.

Civilization Watch - May 9, 2013 - Unlikely Events - The Ornery American (http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2013-05-09-1.html)

LOVED the book when I was a kid, but I can't in any good conscience support this type of shitbag. So no more money from me.

[tarcone]

Anyone see the movie?

[MacroGuru]

I have

It started off solid, then went into a mish mash of scenes from the book. It is hurried in places but then it get's some of the points across. Battle School almost seem rushed to me.

I think it would have been better served as a 2 movie edition with more of a focus on what it was about.

Special Effects were amazing, acting was solid, we all know the story but it came across rushed to me.

[Vince, Pt. II]

I thought it was almost entirely awful. Special effects were all that it had going in my opinion. Acting was meh, story was incredibly rushed and there were a few scenes that were simply ridiculous (Ender going full cowboy with two guns blazing in the battle room = no thank you).

[Subby]

So happy there probably won't be a sequel. Fuck OSC.

[MacroGuru]

So happy there probably won't be a sequel. Fuck OSC.

Card inked a sequel about 2 days after the movie launched.

[INDalltheway]

They certainly set it up for a sequel. The movie moved along way too fast. I wanted to see more of the games at battle school. I would have like to have had more commentary from Ender. It was good, but not great like I was hoping.

[Ryche]

I felt like they did about as well with it as they could with the length of the movie. Would have definitely liked more from the battle school but I was impressed by Butterfield. Really don't care about a sequel, Speaker for the Dead didn't do much for me.

[Subby]

Card inked a sequel about 2 days after the movie launched.
A week after the movie came out there was an article in Vanity Fair saying that the sequel was very much up in the air (http://variety.com/2013/film/news/enders-game-sequel-lionsgate-1200808795/).

[RendeR]

I enjoyed the Movie. They fucked over the actual story. Orson is still a flatulating fuckbag and as usual something I truly enjoy will be looked upon by millions as a "shoulda been coulda been" film.



Color me disappointed overall.