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More Delays for Ender Movie
Arramol writes "IGN reports that difficulties in hammering out a screenplay have resulted in more delays for the Ender's Game movie. Despite attempts by several teams of writers, no script has yet been written that meets necessary standards in the minds of Warner Brothers or author Orson Scott Card. The latest plan involves an entirely new script written by Card himself."
They should take a card from Douglas Adams et. al... and just slap some shit together, and let the digital effects speak for themselves.
No... wait... don't.
IGN reports that difficulties in hammering out a screenplay have resulted in more delays for the Ender's Game
Sounds like endgame for Ender's Game.
(Maybe we could get Uwe Boll to direct it?)
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
... the original screenwriter's decision to make Valentine a lesbian and have her marry her partner in Act II may have been a mistake.
I'm sure in the hollywood version it's all surly teenagers etcetera. Can't have Card's anti-war message coming through too clearly now.
Right! Cuz there's no more right-wing, gung-ho, pro-war establishment than today's Hollywood. Damn wingnuts...
Anti-war message?
Are we even talking about the same Orson Scott Card here?
"First lesson," Jon said. "Stick them with the pointy end."
This movie's going to be great. We all know the longer a screenplay is the development, the better it gets! Right? Right?
Seems to be popular on her but I'll risk a troll rating by saying
that I found Enders Games to be the dullest sci fi book I've ever
read and in fact I got so bored I gave up 3/4 way through.
The only other book that got even remotely close in tedium rating
was Radix by A. A. Attanasio.
Enders Game - great book for people who rate political allegory above
anything remotely resembling a good plot.
Ender's game would make a great musical comedy.
Please, you obviously read the books and try to share relevant information. Leave /. immediately and return when you have learned to talk about subjects you know nothing about, and refrain from having actual arguments in support of your opinions. TIA for your commitment in upholding the /. standards.
In my opinion, Scientology is a cult you should avoid.
If Warner had their way, I would have to guess that they would like to see it cut out entirely, or have Ender not kill them.
Dude, if Warner had their way, you would just send them the 10 bucks, and let them skip making the movie.
...is if the sequels were optioned as well. This is bound to get me flamed, but IMHO, the adaptation of the rest of the quartet would suck. 20+ pages of philosophical and scientific diatribe between two characters doesn't translate very well to the screen... and this is most of the last three books, especially Xenocide The screenplays would read more like transcripts of a talk show than science fiction flicks...
Maybe they could shorten it...
"The trees are made out of pequeninos!!!"
They'd better hurry up and get this produced. The actor they'd tapped to play Ender just died of old age.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
In other words, you go to war with the kids you have, not the kids you want?
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