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More Delays for Ender Movie

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the wiggin-out dept.

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."

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  1. Re:uh oh... by lhuiz · · Score: 5, Informative

    "the" Ender's Game sequels? You make no distinction between, say, Ender's Shadow (good) and Shadow of the Hegemon (tedious) or between Speaker for the dead (the best of the series) and Xenocide (quite awful and very predictable)?

    As for your question, I think Card started out as a playwright before switching to novels. I'm not sure, but I seem to have picked up this piece of trivia from one of his introductions.

  2. Re:uh oh... by Anakron · · Score: 5, Informative
    Does Card even have any experience writing screenplays
    From his biography at http://www.hatrack.com/osc/about-more.shtml
    ..dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s
    ..supported his family primarily by writing scripts for audiotapes..
    ..he wrote the screenplays for animated children's videos..
    So yes, he knows how to write screenplays..
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    There are 11 types of people. Those who understand binary, those who don't and those who are sick of this lame joke.
  3. What about Joss Whedon directing? by ZoomieDood · · Score: 3, Informative

    From Orson Scott Card's own website:

    So here's what I have to say about Serenity:

    This is the kind of movie that I have always intended Ender's Game to be (though the plots are not at all similar).

    And this is as good a movie as I always hoped Ender's Game would be.

    And I'll tell you this right now: If Ender's Game can't be this kind of movie, and this good a movie, then I want it never to be made.

    I'd rather just watch Serenity again.