Although I'm not convinced that Jake Lloyd will make the perfect Ender, his potential involvement has given Card a new enthusiasm for the project. It's also allowed Card to return to an Ender-centred view of the movie. If you saw the first draft of his screenplay, Mazer Rackham played a much larger role. That may have been interesting, but it wouldn't be *Ender's* Game, now would it?
Card has done a good job of condensing Ender's young violence into a single already-key scene with Peter and Val, and the pacing seems right.
He still has some awful expository dialogue in there as well as a novelist's tendency to over-describe. I mean, do we really need to know how many Battle School students are left-handed?
I have trouble imagining the computer world with Ender the Bear. This is probably the movie's greatest risk.
As for the Peter and Val subplot, I think Card is right to cut it. Adapting a novel for the screen is all about knowing what to cut. That section lifts out so cleanly that regardless of how enjoyable it is on paper, it would be foolish to leave it in.
This draft is miles better than the early one that drew enough criticism to make Card pull it from the net out of frustration. It's worth the read.
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Although I'm not convinced that Jake Lloyd will make the perfect Ender, his potential involvement has given Card a new enthusiasm for the project. It's also allowed Card to return to an Ender-centred view of the movie. If you saw the first draft of his screenplay, Mazer Rackham played a much larger role. That may have been interesting, but it wouldn't be *Ender's* Game, now would it?
You can find some sample script pages here.
Card has done a good job of condensing Ender's young violence into a single already-key scene with Peter and Val, and the pacing seems right.
He still has some awful expository dialogue in there as well as a novelist's tendency to over-describe. I mean, do we really need to know how many Battle School students are left-handed?
I have trouble imagining the computer world with Ender the Bear. This is probably the movie's greatest risk.
As for the Peter and Val subplot, I think Card is right to cut it. Adapting a novel for the screen is all about knowing what to cut. That section lifts out so cleanly that regardless of how enjoyable it is on paper, it would be foolish to leave it in.
This draft is miles better than the early one that drew enough criticism to make Card pull it from the net out of frustration. It's worth the read.
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