http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/

It's official, there will be an "Ender's Game" movie; Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield.

I figure they'll mangle the story. Your thoughts?

(If you've not read the book or don't know the title, someone will explain it I'm sure)

Of course, they made it using teenagers instead of younger kids, so that will change the story, but we should have known that would happen. I definitely want to see it, and I'll reserve judging it until I do. I liked Asa Butterfield in Hugo a lot and think he could be a good Ender, but it's going to be a tough movie to make. I suspect many people who love the book will hate the movie. I loved the book. I'll try to keep an open mind about the movie.

Ender's Game was one of the first books I read as a kid where I recognized how the protagonist was thinking. Most books that target kids that age talk down to them. Ender's Game did not. I read it at my own level.

I think I was around 10 or 11 when I read it. It really affected me. The kids in the battle school had their own agendas. They thought their way through situations, anticipated reactions. It was refreshing to read a story where the protagonists my own age, were intelligent, and thinking rational beings.

Orson Scott Card got bashed for making a story where kids didn't sound like kids in other books, and they didn't suffer from "kid logic". Most adult writers want to paint children as too stupid, too trusting, or living in a fantasy world. Card wrote the kids as intelligent and self reliant. His audience appreciated it, even if his critics didn't.

I hope they can make a movie that is as honest as the books. I doubt it, but I'd like to see it.

This isn't the first time there has been a movie deal in the works for this book. Card has been trying to get the movie made since the mid 1990's. Casting was always the issue. I'm not sure that casting teenagers is the best solution, but it is probably the only one that will get past the censors.

I'll see the movie and keep my fingers crossed. I could be pleasantly surprised. I think I need to read the book again. I just downloaded the e-books to my iPad, so I should re-read and see if I'm being too harsh.

Paolo wrote: Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:20 pm http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/

It's official, there will be an "Ender's Game" movie; Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield.

I figure they'll mangle the story. Your thoughts?

(If you've not read the book or don't know the title, someone will explain it I'm sure)

Isn't Harrison Ford too old to play Ender?

I guess they'll cut off the most of the outside of ender's school-life, his siblings part.

Or, the siblings are just normal families. 2hrs are too short for the characters.

(And general USA parents hate them, I think)

I just hope they never build the movie as like the starship troopers...

gareth19 (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:37 am Isn't Harrison Ford too old to play Ender?

I guess he is teacher...

It’s a great book, but I can’t imagine how it might properly be filmed with live actors. The age of the characters is a critical plot element. There is some hope, though, so long as they don’t hire M.Night Shymalan as director.

I'm really not holding out any hope for this movie. I'll watch it, but honestly my expectations are about the same level as those for the live-action Akira. The story just won't be the same with older kids, and I'm fully expecting them to mangle the rest of it.

BossTamsin (imported) wrote: Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:59 am I'm really not holding out any hope for this movie. I'll watch it, but honestly my expectations are about the same level as those for the live-action Akira. The story just won't be the same with older kids, and I'm fully expecting them to mangle the rest of it.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/167681 ... wart.jhtml

Though "Akira" has had significant developments in recent months — including potentially adding Kristen Stewart to the cast — Warner Bros. has shut down production on the live-action adaptation of the classic anime and manga.

For years, "Akira" had been an on-again, off-again production, with the likes of Keanu Reeves and Albert Hughes involved at one point. But the most recent attempt at the film — with "Unknown" director Jaume Collet-Serra and "Harry Potter" screenwriter Steve Kloves retouching the script — made the most progress on the property to date, getting as far as casting Garrett Hedlund as Kaneda, the lead.

Dave (imported) wrote: Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:28 am http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/167681 ... wart.jhtml

Though "Akira" has had significant developments in recent months — including potentially adding Kristen Stewart to the cast — Warner Bros. has shut down production on the live-action adaptation of the classic anime and manga.

For years, "Akira" had been an on-again, off-again production, with the likes of Keanu Reeves and Albert Hughes involved at one point. But the most recent attempt at the film — with "Unknown" director Jaume Collet-Serra and "Harry Potter" screenwriter Steve Kloves retouching the script — made the most progress on the property to date, getting as far as casting Garrett Hedlund as Kaneda, the lead.

I'll believe it's dead when I hold it's cold, dead corpse in my hand. To date, every version I've heard about has been an abomination of one kind or another, either in whitewashing the entire cast, setting the movie in New New York, or some other atrocity. Some day, this will be made.

I still feel the same way about Ender's Game. Sure, it has potential, but there's no way it will make it through the Hollywood meatgrinder without losing everything that made the original story great.