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Benioff and Weiss To Write Ender's Game Script
nighthawk127127 writes "According to the Fresco Pictures website, David Benioff (writer of the screenplay for Troy) has been signed on by Warner Brothers to write the script for the movie adaptation of Ender's Game. Rumors of the Ender's Game movie have been circulating for a long time now, but this is the first time in a while we've gotten some definite information. The movie will be a combination of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card." Well, gosh, with Troy under his belt, all my concerns about the movie sucking are straight out! *cough*
It's not like Orson Scott Card is some kind of genius whose work is going to be denigrated by a film adaption. It's a pretty straight forward pulp story that's heavy on action and dialogue. It's not like Dune where everything is told from 3rd person omniscient and 80% of the story happens in people's heads. Quit your whining, people. Card should consider himself lucky if the SciFi Channel adapted his crap.
I am no expert on this writer, but I did enjoy the Ender series. But yeah, his politics turned me right off and I didn't buy a single one of the books - they were all borrowed from the library.
As best as I can make out, Card is probably all of the following:
1. a conservative, although I think he identifies himself as a democrat
2. LDS, a.k.a Mormon
3. in favor of the war in Iraq
I apologize in advance to those that will think me intolerant, but being LDS is a huge mind-fuck. If you don't see it that way, that's okay with me. But it basically suggests to me that Card is not playing with a full deck.
Slashdot 'editors' are pretty much the same as movie 'directors'. Their 'interpretation' usually 'sucks'. Such as it were.
Maybe K-mart can start selling KKK bed sheets now that Martha Stewart is a convicted criminal. It would be not quite as disturbing as having the institution of marriage devalued as it is today for the sake of some filthy lucre in taxes and medical benefits. That is _all_ that this current tempest in a teapot is about. Beside the incrementalist gay agenda of making the 'lifestyle choice' more acceptable to the masses.
Card is right on target with that stuff.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Haha. Even as an atheist, I was with him until he started talking about schooling, and it's role in civilizing children. You could more easily civilize them by giving them a spear and sending them out to live in the jungle until age 18. Just goes to prove that christians only have good ideas as long as they agree with their bible, eh?
I fail to see what discrepencies with the Iliad have to do with the film. I, along with nearly everyone else in the world, haven't read, and don't care one jot about the Iliad. You're like one of those Tolkien nerds who rants on and on about how the Lord of the Rings films are not true to the books.
Honestly mate, no-one cares. I can't imagine anything more lame than a film where everything gets decided by 'gods'. It would be like Jason and the Argonauts multiplied by a million.
As for your last comment, the Iliad isn't that good. People wonly think it's good because it's old. If it was written today people would criticise it for being overly long and pretentious.
Let me get this straight. People think the Iliad is good because it's around 3,000 years old? I think you've got cause and effect mixed up. The Iliad is still around after 3000 years because it's good.
Not really. Let's face it, if someone came out with that today, it would be slated, no-one would like it. People read it to look sophisticated. A bit like Shakespeare really. It might have been acceptable centuries ago, but by today's standards, the characters are flat, the dialogue is ridiculous and the plots are very basic.
Your whole second paragraph is some bs assumption on your part. I suppose you think straight people are subhuman, disgusting, and something you don't want going on in your town. Right?
Maybe I think marriage is a useful construct given declining birth rates amongst Western societies. We are mostly below replacement levels. If we are to preserve our own cultures we have to have more children. These children need to be raised in a secure environment with two parents. Marriage in its traditional form encourages this. Devaluing marriage has no positives for the state and a significant negative.
The failure of late 20th century social engineering projects has become manifest. This includes gay advocacy. We're going the way of the Romans unless we do something to stem the tide. If that's not cool, tough shit. Making people feel good about themselves in direct contravention to reality is not useful policy if we wish to survive.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Fucking hell - do you yanks actually believe that agit-prop? It was the USA that lobbied hard for the Berne Convention in the first place in particular the very long copyright lifetimes. Typical bloody American behaviour - connive away and then blame it all on the Europeans.
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