Ender's Game movie

[xortex]

That will effectively labotomize it.

 

[Hunter X]

Variety confirms that Harrison Ford is Graff, Hailee Steinfeld is Petra, Abigail Breslin is Valentine, and Aramis Knight (sweet name) is Bean. The rest of the major and secondary kids also seem to be cast, according to the article.

They're definitely casting kids who have proven that they can act, rather than going for closer ages to the kids in the book.

 

[Reverend]

I also notice they've chosen kids who look a little small for their age, which probably helps if they're playing younger characters. Or rather I should say playing children that are supposed to age several years over the course of the film.

So far the cast is looking pretty solid, but I'm a bit on the fence about the screenwriter/director. The only films of his I've seen are Rendition and Wolverine...both were competent but neither really stood out for me. I just hope he brings his A-game for this one.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I'm suddenly very interested in this film now. Gavin Hood I'm on the fence with...and I've forgotten who the writer is now but the cast is extremely strong.

 

[timothy]

orson scott card is the writer. I am so looking forward to this.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I know Orson Scott Card is the writer of the novels...I'm talking about the writer of the films since you know this is a thread about the movie.

 

[DarthPipes]

Variety confirms that Harrison Ford is Graff, Hailee Steinfeld is Petra, Abigail Breslin is Valentine, and Aramis Knight (sweet name) is Bean. The rest of the major and secondary kids also seem to be cast, according to the article.

They're definitely casting kids who have proven that they can act, rather than going for closer ages to the kids in the book.

Yeah, those are cream of the crop as far as child actors go. According to the Los Angelos Times, Ben Kingsley has also been cast. That's a great fucking cast.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jac...will-be-in-orson-scott-cards-enders-game.html

Of course, I'd worry about Gavin Hood writing and directing the film. He did direct the steaming pile of shit that was Wolverine Origins.

 

[timothy]

I know Orson Scott Card is the writer of the novels...I'm talking about the writer of the films since you know this is a thread about the movie.

gavin hood wrote the screenplay he also wrote x-men wolverine orgins.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Uh no he didn't. "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" was written by David Benioff and Skip Woods. Gavin Hood directed the film. I know he's the director of "Enders Game". I know that Benioff wrote an early draft of the script as did D.B. Weiss. I also now that Orci and Kurtzman are executive producers on the project.

 

[Agenda]

I refuse to see this movie.

 

[RoJoHen]

I refuse to see this movie.

Good for you.

 

[Agenda]

I refuse to see this movie.

Good for you.

It is.

 

[timothy]

Uh no he didn't. "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" was written by David Benioff and Skip Woods. Gavin Hood directed the film. I know he's the director of "Enders Game". I know that Benioff wrote an early draft of the script as did D.B. Weiss. I also now that Orci and Kurtzman are executive producers on the project.

I refuse to see this movie.

@ admiral young I was going by IMBD if I was wrong sorry.

@ Xmas in antares why are you refueseing to see this movie?

 

[xortex]

The keystone cops at Bad Robot are writing this. It's gonna drag sparks from LA to Key West. I'll be looking forward more to the Starship Troopers remake somewhat even more because that was my favorit movie and the concept is just too ironic - to be exterminated by giant cockroaches.

 

[nvek86]

There were several attempts at creating a screen play for the film, but the current version seems to be written by Hood himself (re-working a version by Card).

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/09/orson-scott-card-enders-game-gavin-hood.html

And Hood wrote the script to his film "Totsie", which I've never seen, but it won a bunch of awards.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

ENDER’S GAME Production Blog Launched

After years of starts and stops, a feature film adaptation of Ender’s Game is finally on the way. X-Men Origins: Wolverine director Gavin Hood is at the helm, and Hugo‘s Asa Butterfield plays the titular boy who’s recruited to develop military strategies in an attempt to prepare for an intergalactic battle. A production blog for the film has just been launched, with an inaugural entry highlighting the big shoes Butterfield has to fill for the long-awaited adaptation. The blog will be run by producer Roberto Orci (Star Trek) and will feature guest updates from the cast and crew.

http://collider.com/enders-game-production-blog/154097/

The blog
http://endersgameblog.tumblr.com/

Well this is a start. Marketing involved yet?

 

[xortex]

Making this movie is almost like the story itself. How ironic.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Oh, I'm sure there will be interesting extras when it comes on video about getting it made

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

Sorry if people have already seen this. Last month Orson Scott Card posted this article on his website. It starts out reviewing The Avengers, but then he speaks extensively about the filming of Ender's Game, and being on the set.

I sat, off-camera, reading my sole line, which comes in the middle of a scene between Harrison Ford as Col. Graff and Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin.
The scene does not come from the book -- very few of the scenes in this movie do -- so it was amusing when others asked me how it felt to have my book brought to life. My book was already alive in the mind of every reader. This is writer-director Gavin Hood's movie, so they were his words, and it was his scene...


Besides that intense time doing offscreen line readings while two fine actors were at work, I got a chance to explore the gorgeous sets designed and built by teams headed by production designers Sean Haworth and Ben Procter.
Again, they were not building anything from the book, so I wasn't seeing my ideas brought to life. Their job was to build the scenery dreamed up by Gavin Hood for his story, and they have done a wonderful job.

It sounds as though they are taking a lot of liberties with the book... and that Card is fine with that.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I don't know that he's "fine." Nothing in the film's long process has indicated he was ever fine. Plus, given that all the anecdotal evidence in the world indicates he's never been anything other than a total asshat, I doubt things have finally turned to puppies and roses.

I would instead say he's finally acquiesced to the inevitable.