According to a story in
The Los Angeles Times, which takes a look at the release of Orson Scott Card's new Ender novel
Ender in Exile, Wolfgang Peterson has dropped out of directing a big screen adaptation of the original Ender book
Ender's Game. The film was scrapped due to Card's own disappointment in the film's thematic direction.
The story claims that the book's "Complex weave of emotions has made Ender especially difficult to film and has resulted in two decades of fizzled studio meetings, dead-end scripts and a marathon director search." The author stated that he was not interested in a "tough-hero action film" and still refuses to condescend to green-screen Hollywood. Card wants a film where the human relationships are absolutely essential. Basically he wants an honest presentation of the story.
Card's hope now is that Marvel's recent comic book adaptation of the first novel will convince Hollywood that the story is worth telling on the big screen. To read more about Card's latest novel check out the article at
The Los Angeles Times.
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Hopefully the comics will show hollywood how to do it visually. I think that's the biggest problem, aside from the humanistic storyline. If done right, this would become a Sci-Fi benchmark, one of the best Sci-Fi films ever made, right along with 2001, the original Planet of the Apes and the original The Day the Earth Stood Still. Heck. Maybe Card should direct it. Heck even more. Co direct. No shame in that. Share the glory if that's what it takes.
In fact shit, i never even knew there was a comic adaptation.
But the waiting is annoying for this film, i say get the dude that did Starship Troopers.
Also if Orson is involved dramatically with the project it's never gonna get done because he is gonna keep having creative difficulties with the director, because in his perspective,m this film is his vision and kind of his baby.
So don't hold your breath for a big screen adaptation to Ender's Game unless its directed by Orson Scott himself
Chad, you could Wiki it, but I'll sum it up. It's about a genius kid who's removed from his family forever by the government, recruited to a battle school in earth orbit, a brutal place, where military training is learned in a school setting, and also in games. Think of the coolest game of freeze tag ever, in null gravity! This is being done to train future military leaders to fight the war against the Buggers (alien race).
No...
NO!!!!
How much longer must I wait!