Trent Strong
Banned
JordanLMiller said:Yup. I don't understand the praise the book gets.
It's a million times better than any of the Harry Potter books. Not that that's saying much.
JordanLMiller said:Yup. I don't understand the praise the book gets.
BruceLeeRoy said:How did this go from being in the hands of James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and now Summit. Uhhhhh today is off to a great start.
curiouswitch said: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....
Scullibundo said:Gavin Hood wrote and will be directing. His last studio film was WOLVERINE. -_-
Scullibundo said:Gavin Hood wrote and will be directing. His last studio film was WOLVERINE. -_-
Goddamn, that would be so much better.Apple Sauce said: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.
Morn said:He didn't write Wolverine.
Cyan said:Goddamn, that would be so much better.
And I don't even like anime.
Scullibundo said:Ender's Game.
Director: Steven Spielberg.
The biggest problem plaguing Ender's Game as an adaptation is obviously the need of child-actors who are anything but child-like in their range as actors. There is also the problem that the story is supposed to take place over roughly 7 years, which would normally invite a huge bout of change from a 6 year old Ender Wiggin. Add the headache of trying to represent a character like Bean faithfully and having children getting into naked shower fights and I believe that the ideal route would to be to go the Tintin route. This is why - on top of Ender's Game being an amalgamation of Spielberg's strengths (Child-centric, morally ambiguous, sci-fi, military) - he would be the perfect man for the job.
So it could be perf-capped, like Tintin, like Avatar. Imagine being able to have a troupe of adult actors able to play the kids in Battle School. And their ages could be tweaked according to the story, rather than feel like Battle School takes place over the course of a week, you could see the changes.
And 3D. Yes, I know 3D gets bad buzz right now. But more than the perf-cap tech being perfect for it, the material is. If you go back to my very first impressions after getting home from Avatar, you'll notice that the moment the movie blew my mind was when Jake woke up in the cryo-bay and I saw the depth of the chamber as the med-techs drifted around in null-G. A part of me knew right then that the Battle Room was destined to be seen in 3D.
A couple of weeks ago I had also had a conversation with a friend of mine as to who on Earth could play Col. Graff. I had somebody like Geoffrey Rush in mind (based on how he played his character Ephraim in Munich), but still wasn't sure. Then my friend suggested Tom Hanks and - thinking of something in between his performances of Captain Miller and more so Carl Handratty (also Spielberg films), I realized that to me, Hanks is a perfect fit for Col. Graff.
Obviously I would prefer an R rating given the material, but knowing how Spielberg can stretch - or rather, creatively construct a dark PG13 film like WotW or Minority Report, I could accept a PG13 from him.
Add Williams to score obviously and get Januz to supervise the lighting techs and we've got ourselves a movie. Just keep OSC away from the script because whilst he has an absolute mastery over prose narrative form, if you've ever seen him discuss films or read the few pages released from his initial first draft of the screenplay for Ender's Game, you'll know he can't be trusted.
Scullibundo 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.
StormyTheRabbit said:Sorry Sculi, but Hanks as Graff?
Naaaaah thank you.
Pinko Marx said:Cool, another shitty book gets made into a better movie.
Ah, of course. Makes sense.Scullibundo said: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.
Cyan said:Wow, I had no idea there were Ender's Game haters. Let alone so many of them!
Scullibundo said: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.
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: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.
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.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.
Thaedolus said:Either that, or they let the awesomeness of the original get tainted by the so-so to terrible quality of the endless sequels/side stories. It doesn't take very long to get sick of OSC's irritating writing style.
Trent Strong said:It's a million times better than any of the Harry Potter books. Not that that's saying much.
Dan said: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.
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.