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Another one is Ender's Game. I'm still waiting for the Ender's Game movie. I think I started when I was in high school and now I have four children. And no, I didn't name one Ender.

I had read here that the movie is also going to be based on Ender's Shadow. Any part of an Ender movie that has Julian Delphiki (aka 'Bean') in it is going to require that the audience have privelege to some of the things in Bean's head. A cheesy voice-over might not cut it. I agree this will be a difficult movie to write at best. Kudos to OSC for not wanting to produce a "watered-down" version of it.

Though there are the weird cases, like where sub-parts of the brain are gradually replaced by cybernetic equivalents. At one end of the process you have a purely organic mind, and at the other end a purely silicon (or whatever) one. At what point along that spectrum (if any) does the original person die?

Reminds me of this story.

for those who liked Ender's Game, they are making it a movie.

I'm pretty interested to see how they do all the stunt work with kids. In my mind while reading the book, I thought it would make a good computer animated film.

They have signed some talent to make this a movie. Pretty cool.

Hopefully, Ender's Game won't get shafted too badly in the screenplay.

The are working on Ender's game even as we type! You can look here for updates, but it looks like it may be awhile yet.

Ender's Game might happen as a movie ... but then, you added the qualifier "good", and who knows ...

Ender's Game.

Ender's game is already being made into a movie by the same people as XMen2! :)

Sadly, it may already be too late. Now that the Ender's Shadow books are out, Card seems to be insisting that any Ender's Game movie shoehorn elements from that book in as well. So the Ender's Game that we all know and love will probably never happen. :(

Nope -- not good, for a variety of reasons listed in other posts.

Reminds me of a story by Orson Scott Card called Dogwalker . The protagonist is someone who groks passwords. He ends up caught because he got a password correct on the first try, which the owner never ever did.

Ender's Game is going to be a movie, but OSC's writing the script, so it shouldn't suck too badly.

I'm pretty sure that this is already in progress. This article indicates they have a director and gives a little about their plans:
News about Ender's Game: The Movie

And when do we get the film, damnit?! =)
I've read the books, now I want the film.
Enders game, The movie.

And why not "Enders game, The game"? =)
Hmm... As long as it isn't a Doom clone.
On the other hand, imagine a first person shooter without gravity. =)

When the Marine University at Quantico required students in one class to read Ender's Game, it wasn't for the strategy -- tactics in 3D space aren't really a big deal for the Marines. Rather, it was because Ender's Game is virtually a textbook in how to develop a strong relationship between a commander and his troops -- with plenty of examples also in how to fail as a commander.

Notice I said "most enjoyable". As much as we'd like to transfer all the great metaphysical scifi to the screen, such a transfer is likely to either create an unwatchable set of wooden monologues, completely toss the deep concepts, or both. Also, LOTR notwithstanding, short stories are easier to adapt than novels.

later,
Jess

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Looks like there's going to be an Ender's Game movie!

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The comment about "So many people tend to subconsciously believe that their password has to sum up the very essence of their being in one word," reminds me of the Orson Scott Card short story, The Dogwalker. Basically, a password thief discovers by psychoanalysis of sorts what a password is... it is basically derived from someone's personality.

Kind of interesting, I think. The story's at http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/dogwalker/sho rt-story.html if anyone's interested.

As much as I'd love to see the movies, I'm not holding my breath.

I was at the Signing. I have to admit that Orsen Scott Card himself made a good argument against having an Ender's Game movie. What he said is that the third version of the script, which he is finishing now is not a Ender's Game movie, but a combination of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow and that it is from Bean's Point of View.

If you want to know more... The start of the script is online at http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/ender/script. html and Orsen Scott Card's Movie Update is at http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/ender/script. html

Am I missing anything...

I was at the Signing. I have to admit that Orsen Scott Card himself made a good argument against having an Ender's Game movie. What he said is that the third version of the script, which he is finishing now is not a Ender's Game movie, but a combination of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow and that it is from Bean's Point of View.

If you want to know more... The start of the script is online at http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/ender/script. html and Orsen Scott Card's Movie Update is at http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/ender/script. html

Am I missing anything...

The official page is at http://www.frescopictures.com /movies/ender/index.html. They've got the first bit of the script up, as well as mention that Jake Lloyd is interested in playing Ender. They're also planning to film Ender's Shadow at the same time.

I can't get the script to work. I've tried everything! I downloaded it from the site, and named it 'ender' in my home directory.
I typed 'ender' and it said 'bash: ender: command not found'
So I realized . wasn't in my $PATH, so I typed './ender' and it said 'bash: ./ender: Permission denied'
So I typed 'chmod 700 ender', ran it again and it said './ender: EXT: command not found'
So I opened up the file and added a #! before EXT, thinking that EXT might be the shell it needs, but I don't have EXT installed on my system.

So my questions are:
a) What is this EXT shell that the script was written in?
b) How can I get this script to run under Linux?
c) What does this script do?

Maybe I'll just stick to compiled languages, scripting languages seem like more pain than their worth!

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... so I'm very hopeful. (You can download some of the script. See OSC's news update about the movie.


BTW, I had a chance to meet Card in Chicago for a book signing a while back. He's a great guy, and this movie has an excellent chance to be a great one.

... so I'm very hopeful. (You can download some of the script. See OSC's news update about the movie.

BTW, I had a chance to meet Card in Chicago for a book signing a while back. He's a great guy, and this movie has an excellent chance to be a great one.

Even if the movie sucks, it may be enough publicity to warrant a sequel to the book!

There are three sequels -- "Children of the Mind", "Xenocide" and "Speaker For The Dead" (I don't know the order, though) -- and a new "parallel book" called "Ender's Shadow"; I don't know anything about it except that it takes place at the same time as "Ender's Game" but doesn't involve Ender (maybe about his siblings?)

You can find info for the movie (including an excerpt from one of Card's scripts) at the Fresco Pictures Ender's Game site.

Jay (=
(Who just discovered this site yesterday -- gotta love synchronicity...)

Even if the movie sucks, it may be enough publicity to warrant a sequel to the book!

There are three sequels -- "Children of the Mind", "Xenocide" and "Speaker For The Dead" (I don't know the order, though) -- and a new "parallel book" called "Ender's Shadow"; I don't know anything about it except that it takes place at the same time as "Ender's Game" but doesn't involve Ender (maybe about his siblings?)

You can find info for the movie (including an excerpt from one of Card's scripts) at the Fresco Pictures Ender's Game site.

Jay (=
(Who just discovered this site yesterday -- gotta love synchronicity...)