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Old 07-23-2013, 03:46 PM   #24 (permalink)
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from the previews it looks pretty good....the kid they got playing Ender in my opinion is pretty spot on....well looks wise

Spoiler for HUGE spoiler if you have not read the book.....like Darth Vader is Luke's dad type of spoiler:
personally i think the key is to keep the real meaning of the game hidden from the audience....if this is going to work in any way shape or form as it did with the book....the audience has to be clueless to the idea that the game is in fact real.....and personally i think they can be successful if they do it right.....an example would be The Others....that was perfect execution of the same idea.....and like The Others this is a 100% character driven story....so they have to keep you involved in the characters and how they react to the situations....the good thing here is that there is plenty of awesome battle room stuff to keep an ignorant and a knowing audience enthralled....i just think they really have to balance everything nicely....and they cannot even give a hint as to what the game really is....when i first read the book i was floored when this was revealed but at the same time i understood completely


there were rumors a while back that they would be combining Ender's Game with Ender's Shadow for the film.....personally i think that would loose some of the grip the story can have on the reader/audience...although i very much enjoyed reading Bean's story
I was just thinking the same thing earlier today/last night.

Spoiler for Spoiler:
If they try to turn the final space battle sequences into actual space battles to appease the braindead, special effects, cro-mag movie goers then no matter how much they do right, the whole thing might as well have never been made. About the rest of the game too obviously, but the last part seems like the easiest thing to for them to puss out on and ruin. I don't see how they could be that dumb, but with Hollywood one should never assume competence.

Another thing they absolutely need to nail down is making Ender and the rest of the children sympathetic, but not "Aw, poor baby!" sympathetic. They need to be able to be seen as *******s just as much as children. The book was all about children-as-adults, and that is another easy thing to **** up if they don't really know what they're doing.

And the most likely way to ruin it is a love interest. I can smell it. I can almost taste the studio not getting the need for Ender to be isolated from everyone, including his friends. A love interest would destroy that and take entirely to much time away from what matters.
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