Author Topic: Ender's Game (saga) (Read 7578 times)

emmy · « **on:** September 29, 2004, 07:59:04 am »

Hmm... my friend got me to read this book over the summer, and I ended reading it and a bunch of the sequels... Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets ...

Very good. And they're going to be making a movie out of it too

Sooo, anyone looking forward to it? (the movie) Or anyone read and enjoyed the book?

EDIT: Info about the movie can be found at this site

CaliGirl20 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 29, 2004, 01:59:32 pm »

The books are awesome! And I'm sure the movie will be great too! They set this up so long ago....They were gonna have Haley Joel Osment (6th Sense kid) play Ender. He woulda rocked, except he grew up...Very sad...lol

Who do you think they should cast as Ender?

emmy · « **Reply #2 on:** September 29, 2004, 02:17:53 pm »

Good thing he grew up, I dunno, but I don't like him too much. Well, no, he is pretty good, but I can't imagine him as Ender. MAYBE as Bean, but definitly not as Ender.

CaliGirl20 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 29, 2004, 02:26:13 pm »

Isn't Bean like wayyy smaller than Ender tho....hmmm

I think they'd be better off just casting an unknown to play Ender...

As for Bean they'll have to find one tiny smart dude....lol

emmy · « **Reply #4 on:** September 29, 2004, 02:36:32 pm »

haha, yah, bean is really little, but somehow that kid reminds me more of him than ender.

but no matter what, the kids are going to be much older anyways, because aren't bean and ender like only six or so when they enter battle school? i really don't think a movie full of six year olds running around would be too good. i dont know how the director would do it, but i imagine they would just change the whole thing to make it a bunch of teenagers...

CaliGirl20 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 29, 2004, 03:59:23 pm »

What if they just made the sets big and hired 8-10 yr olds to play Ender and Bean? That might work.....

emmy · « **Reply #6 on:** September 29, 2004, 04:59:00 pm »

I dunno, I just really don't think a bunch of 8 year olds could star in a movie and act well enough to make it a good movie, but thats just my opinion.

tricia · « **Reply #7 on:** October 10, 2004, 05:55:01 pm »

LOL...I've read ALL of the books.

Even the Bean spinoffs

Awesome books.

We'll see about the movie

JazzyManda · « **Reply #8 on:** October 10, 2004, 05:57:09 pm »

loved this book. and Xenocide

when's the movie coming?

Amanda

CaliGirl20 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 10, 2004, 08:37:25 pm »

It's TBA at the moment. Wolfgang Petersen was all busy with Troy, but he's supposed to make Ender's Game next. The script is being written right now.

emmy · « **Reply #10 on:** October 10, 2004, 08:42:02 pm »

I heard that they had a script but Orson Scott Card didn't like it, so they started working on another one. I dunno if that is true though, could just be some rumor.

CaliGirl20 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 10, 2004, 08:53:05 pm »

OSC was working on it himself, but decided to stop, then they hired 2 other guys (Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty) to pen the rewrite.

emmy · « **Reply #12 on:** December 31, 2004, 05:33:11 pm »

the next book in the saga is called "Shadow of the Giant" and its gonna be out in March... though on OSC's website the first three chapters have been put up to read!!

From this preview I think its going to be another excellent book! I was reading the second chapter and was like 8O 8O wow

http://www.hatrack.com/osc/books/shadowofthegiant/shadowofthegiant_01.shtml

emmy · « **Reply #13 on:** March 08, 2005, 11:34:21 am »

Yeh, so that book I mentioned above, Shadow of the Giant is out... I got it a few days ago and finished reading it in about a day... but to be honest with you, I didn't like it much. Well, at least compared with some of the earlier books. But then again I know people that read it and said it is the best book out of the whole series... so I guess it is just an opinion thing.

One thing is though, I thought this was supposed to be the finale. The conclusion. But apparently, a rather large chunk of info was brought up and never resolved, assumedly to allow for a book to follow.

emmy · « **Reply #14 on:** March 10, 2005, 08:18:18 pm »

and although this is kinda my emily speaks to herself thread, I met OSC today, he was very nice, and funny too. Haha, and we chatted in portuguese

He talked about the Ender's Game movie and how the screenplay was rewritten a third time, but they are still waiting on Warner Brothers to okay it and move on. He also mentioned another movie about another book of his which I don't think has come out yet... Queen Latifah wants to be in it (as long as she gets to ride a motorcycle, hahaha)

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Author Topic: Ender's Game (saga) (Read 7578 times)