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JordanLMiller said:
It's a million times better than any of the Harry Potter books. Not that that's saying much.
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Remember ENDER's GAME, well Twilight Producers Have it.
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It's a million times better than any of the Harry Potter books. Not that that's saying much.
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BruceLeeRoy said:
This was never in the hands of Cameron or Spielberg.
This will be a terrible adaptation of my favourite book. Gavin Hood is going to earn a lot of scorn from me in the coming years.
Done by the right director it could be a brilliant film. Done like this it will kill any chance of us seeing the novel's true potential.
Relaxed Muscle
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There's no way this is gonna be good.
curiouswitch
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My first instinct is to say that this is going to be terrible.
On that same note.. I also once though Heath Ledger was going to be a terrible Joker (when first announced). There is no romance in this book for them to even try to spin it into a teenie crap movie. I'd be more concerned about who wrote the script....
On that same note.. I also once though Heath Ledger was going to be a terrible Joker (when first announced). There is no romance in this book for them to even try to spin it into a teenie crap movie. I'd be more concerned about who wrote the script....
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curiouswitch said:
Gavin Hood wrote and will be directing. His last studio film was WOLVERINE. -_-
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Scullibundo said:
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Wolverine is the worst supercomic movie adaptation ever, even if it had quite the competition right there.
Shit, is going to SUUUUUCK so much, a shame I loved the book.
Apple Sauce
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Who are the 'major' child actors these day? I can't think of one let alone an entire cast. They'd definitely ruin Bean
Someone like Ghibli should get the rights.
Someone like Ghibli should get the rights.
Jamesfrom818
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I always thought that the kid that played Leonidas as a child would have made a good Ender. Probably too old now though.
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Morn said:
What's your point? He hasn't got enough pull as director to adapt Ender's Game faithfully, especially when the studio fronting the bill wants to market it as another teenage series. He's also not a very good director, Tsotsi or otherwise.
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Cyan said:
Fuck that shit, man.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Ender's Game is quite literally the perfect fit for Spielberg. Here's a quote from another thread where I posted my idea.
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Scullibundo said:
Sorry Sculi, but Hanks as Graff?
Naaaaah thank you.
I have little faith in this, and I'd prefer for Orson Scott Card not to get more money. So let's just not, and say we did.
That said, I could be more or less persuaded by Scullibundo's ideas. Just lose the 3D. And I'm not yet sold on performance capture as a primary filmmaking tool.
I tend to imagine it as an anime actually.
That said, I could be more or less persuaded by Scullibundo's ideas. Just lose the 3D. And I'm not yet sold on performance capture as a primary filmmaking tool.
I tend to imagine it as an anime actually.
They're definitely going to up the characters' ages, not just for the sake of attracting a teenage audience, but because having almost the whole cast be played by <12 year olds just doesn't seem feasible at all (and Ender is even younger than that, as is Bean). They'll have to fiddle with the script quite a bit (for instance, Peter and Valentine taking over the world via internet message boards can and should be cut entirely), but that's all right, as long as they don't introduce romantic elements or anything like that.
The two major challenges, I think, are casting a convincing Ender, and making the Zero Gravity scenes work. If they can do that, they might just make a good adaptation.
The two major challenges, I think, are casting a convincing Ender, and making the Zero Gravity scenes work. If they can do that, they might just make a good adaptation.
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StormyTheRabbit said:
Just stew on it and think of Hanks as he was in Catch Me If You Can.
Dan: I think Cameron's (and now Spielberg and Jackson's) method of perf-cap would work really well for this. You could literally have somebody like DDL play Ender and have him still look 6 years old and age him accordingly.
The 3D is obviously not a personal choice, but ever since the opening to avatar where all the med-techs were floating around the cryo-bay, I've wanted to see the battle room in 3D.
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My guess is that most of the Ender's Game haters have never actually read the book and instead judge its quality based on Orson Scott Card's idiotic rants.
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Cyan said:
Yeah I thought this was king of the nerd books
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yeah count me among those who hope this movie never gets made. It just won't work at as a movie there's way too much introspection and I can't imagine a child actor pulling it off. Plus the special effects would have to be Avatar-ish to pull off some of the scenes in the book
Tintin will be a big test for me. I'll see how that goes. Even then, I doubt I'll be convinced that it's better than true animation, outside of letting live-action directors get into the game.Scullibundo said:
I read the first 3.25 books. Dug the first, liked the second, trudged through the third, and gave up on the fourth when I realized it was 90% Mormon proselytizing. My hatred of OSC as a person is certainly a stain on what I actually read read of his and enjoyed. I have a hard time distancing him from his work considering how much his beliefs started impacting the stories.
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Thaedolus said:
Speaker For The Dead was a better book than Ender's Game in my own opinion. But don't get me wrong, I LOVED Ender's Game.
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Trent Strong said:
Ok back off bitch 0.o
I am a massive Enders Game fan....but no one bashes Harry Potter on my watch.
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Dan said:
Yeah Tintin will be a big test.
As for his Mormon beliefs impacting his stories, well that is absolutely true - but that doesn't ruin the stories for me. Hell, I even enjoyed his Homecoming series which is spun off of the Mormon books (which I didn't find out till later). They're still great Sci-fi stories, regardless of their inspiration.
Speaker for the Dead is a brilliant book and Xenocide is great as well. I recently revisited Children of the Mind and now think its alright, where as I used to dislike it a lot.
As for the Bean saga - I enjoyed them quite a bit, but the books don't hold a candle to the Ender saga.
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