Will a sequel to Ender's Game ever see the big screen? It's not a question with a definitive answer. The first film didn't live up to financial expectations, but it got decent critical praise, meaning a life on home video and On Demand could generate interest in a theatrical follow-up. In the past, producers admitted…
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I won't go into full-on Ender's Game spoilers here above the fold, but many have wondered whether or not the film would earn a sequel, and if so how the story would work out. See, the film Ender's Game retains the basic ending of the original novel by Orson Scott Card, and that leads into…
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Good news for fans of Ender's Game who don't want their movie ticket dollars lining the pockets of notorious homophobe: They won't. After all that controversy over author Orson Scott Card's extreme conservative views, a new report indicates that Card doesn't actually stand to make any money off of Gavin Hood's film, and never did.…
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When meeting Harrison Ford isn’t the highlight of your day, that’s a day for the ages. On the New Orleans set of Ender’s Game, the man who played Han Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard was there and I shook his hand. Incredibly, though, that moment was topped when I realized director Gavin Hood had…
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For some, separating the views of author Orson Scott Card and the content of work has become impossible. Card wrote Ender's Game, one of the most revered sci-fi novels, which is finally the subject of a big budget movie adaptation hitting theaters later this year. However, Card is also a vocal detractor of gay rights and…
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Orson Scott Card is best known for his sci-fi writing, but over the years he's also attracted a lot of attention for his staunchly conservative political views. Among other things, he's been vocal about his opposition to same-sex marriage -- and as public opinion evolves on that issue, Card's position is increasingly becoming a problem. Earlier…
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A day Ender's Game fans never thought would happen has arrived. The first teaser trailer for the film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's landmark sci-fi novel is finally here. For years, Hollywood told fans the age of the characters and the complicated action sequences made the story unfilmable. Enter director Gavin Hood who, along with producers…
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This weekend people will be talking about Ben Kingsley, whose work in Iron Man 3 gives the film some of its most surprising and entertaining moments. (No spoilers in the comments, please.) After that, the actor will be seen in writer/director Gavin Hood’s much anticipated adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel Ender’s Game. The first trailer…
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One of the biggest questions about Gavin Hood's adaptation of Ender's Game involves the battle room. Any fan of Orson Scott Card's classic sci-fi novel knows much of the book's excitement, character development and action takes place in a massive zero-gravity chamber where students of Battle School wage war and practices the techniques they learn about in class.…
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When writers visit film sets, they're generally embargoed from discussing what they've seen. It's just impossible to judge a film while it's still in production, far from its final look and studios would ideally like impressions to come out closer to a film's release date. Apparently that embargo doesn't hold true if you are the…
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Harrison Ford is really back. After quite a few years in which the actor took only occasional roles, we've seen him in Cowboys & Aliens this past summer, and he just signed to play famed baseball manager Branch Rickey in the Jackie Robinson biopic 42. And now Ford is going to do another real sci-fi…
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It feels like a film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi classic Ender's Game has been in the works for about as long as I can remember, so you'll have to forgive me for my initial skepticism when it was announced last year that director Gavin Hood would be making yet another attempt to translate the novel…
Read MoreEnder's Game is a property that has been in development for what seems like forever. The last big attempt to make the film started in 2002 when Warner Bros. optioned it and eventually set Wolfgang Petersen to direct. That version died in 2009, at which point Odd Lot picked up the option and eventually hired…
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In September, it was reported that Gavin Hood, the director of Tsotsi and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was developing a big screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card's award winning 1985 sci-fi novel Ender's Game. The trades reported that Hood had rewritten a script that Card himself wrote and was developing the project to direct with a…
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Who knows when we might finally see a big screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel Ender's Game. Hollywood has been trying to bring the sci-fi property to the big screen for the last decade, first with German filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, The Perfect Storm) set to direct based on a screenplay by…
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If you are reading this site and haven't read Ender's Game, you should go out and do that right now. Seriously. I mean, it's a precursor to so many books, video games and movies that we cover it would be futile to try and list them all. Unfortunately, though, this seminal work has always had…
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When we last heard about the Ender's Game movie, it wasn't exactly great news: Wolfgang Peterson was reportedly off the project in April 2008. Now comes word from the LA Times (via Chud and Firstshowing) that the movie won't be happening at all. In a profile to help card promote the November release of his…
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German filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, The Perfect Storm) is no longer set to direct an adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel Ender's Game. io9 reports that the production, which is now hoping to shoot by early 2009, is on the hunt for a new director. Endger's Game was originally slated to be released…
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