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Re:Oopsie. Ender's Game
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.
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Re:More adaptations/sequels?
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.
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But *I* would still die!A copy of me would go on to new and different things, but poor old organic me would perish.
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.
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the movie
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.
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Could similar botch happen to Ender's Game?
Hopefully, Ender's Game won't get shafted too badly in the screenplay.
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Re:How about Lucifer's Hammer?
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.
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Re:How about Lucifer's Hammer?
Ender's Game might happen as a movie
... but then, you added the qualifier "good", and who knows ... -
Re:what is there to live for?
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Re:Sweet!
Ender's game is already being made into a movie by the same people as XMen2!
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Ender's GameWhile there has been a movie "in the works" for about 10 years now, it may finally be happening. Looks like Card finally relinquished control of the script writing to get it to happen (at least that's what I'm reading between the lines).
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.
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Dogwalker
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. -
Re:Low Expectations... it would be sad to see them turned into a movies. Ender's Game with a happy ending?
Ender's Game is going to be a movie, but OSC's writing the script, so it shouldn't suck too badly.
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Re:Ender's Game
I'm pretty sure that this is already in progress. This article indicates they have a director and gives a little about their plans:
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Re:Hmm
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. =) -
CommanderI remember reading (here it is) that the army had made Ender's Game required reading.
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.
In Ender's Shadow it's said that Bean is actually more technically gifted then Ender but Ender is the perfect commander. -
Yeah, but they're going to do Dogwalker!I've loved the Ender series (especially when compared to OSC's others like "Homecoming" and "Alvin Maker"), and I would definitely look forward to the movie, but to me the short stories from _Maps_in_a_Mirror_ are his most enjoyable work. That's why I was stoked to see "Dogwalker" listed on the site as well. This is one of the best of them, and much more suited to the screen than "Kingsmeat", "Fat Farm", or "A Thousand Deaths".
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.
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Ender's GameAm I the only one whom this reminds of how Ender used to speak to Jane, the omnipotent AI computer, through an earplug? No one could hear him speaking, but at night his wife could see his lips moving quickly. There was even another character who had a speech impediment from neurological damage, for whom the impediment went away when he was speaking to Jane because it was easier to whisper for a smart earplug than to speak out loud.
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Looks like there's going to be an Ender's Game movie!
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The Dogwalker
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. -
The moviesThe introduction made reference to the series of movies that Card is working on for the Ender series. While I loved these books (and Card's other works), I highly doubt those movies will ever be made. As Card himself points out on his own website, the logistics of making a movie featuring almost exclusively children are overwhleming. As a result, nobody in Hollywood wants to touch this project with a ten foot pole.
As much as I'd love to see the movies, I'm not holding my breath.
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Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow
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. htmlAm I missing anything...
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Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow
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. htmlAm I missing anything...
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Re:Sequels worth reading?
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. -
Newbie Problem - Please Help!
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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Card's writing the screenplay...
... 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. -
Card's writing the screenplay...
... 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. -
There are 3 sequels and a new "parallel book"
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...) -
There are 3 sequels and a new "parallel book"
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...)