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| Gavin Hood to direct Ender's Game; (yes, thats the director of District-9!!!!!!) | |
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| Zerka Badu | Nov 18 2011, 09:26 AM Post #1 |
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(From Sci-fi movie blog...) Hugo Actor Wanted for Ender’s Game Asa Butterfield offered lead role in upcoming Gavin Hood movie . . . It isn’t known whether the 14-year-old actor has accepted the role yet. Audiences will get to see Asa Butterfield in Hugo, Martin Scorcese’s children’s movie (no, seriously) which opens next week. Ender’s Game will be based on sci-fi author Orson Scott Card’s classic 1985 science fiction novel of the same name which won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. Various directors – amongst them Wolfgang Petersen (Troy, Enemy Mine, Never-Ending Story) – have toyed with making it into a film, but it seems now that the project is going ahead with young South African director Gavin Hood of District 9 fame in the director’s chair. (Hood also wrote the screenplay.) Producers are Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman as well as Gigi Pritzker, Linda McDonough, Lynn Hendee, and Orson Scott Card himself. It isn’t known when actual filming will start on the project but Summit Entertainment has already given Ender’s Game a March 15th, 2013 release date. Here’s a summary of the book: In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn’t make the cut–young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender’s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender’s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If the world survives, that is. Ender’s Game is a bona fide science fiction classic, but to a degree its various sequels are even more interesting. ----------------- Toast if haven't read this book you should. My hopes for this movie have moved from indifferent to friendly. The fact that Hood actually wrote the screenplay is huge. If he is as talented as we think he is, based on the rough, low budget D9, this obviously will be a good test of his ability. The sci-fi elements of this book are subtle enough - making it a changeling movie to make; such as the emotional relationships between his siblings (and thier political intrigue in the background), the artificially intelligent "computer game" that serves as his abstract teacher, ect I think of Sphere (the movie) as a good example of terrible adaptations of really good sci-fi. This story has the risk of being too focused on simply the boys in the military academy, making it that angst filled coming of age story we have seen a million times. I hope they can balance it well, and I think Hood has a good chance of pulling it off - unless of course he gets produced to death, or was just really lucky with D-9. |
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| Toast | Nov 18 2011, 12:44 PM Post #2 |
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Hmmm. I have read the book and loved it as a child. I didn't really care for the sequels as much, plus there's that Ender==Hitler essay that's pretty thoughtful. |
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| Zerka Badu | Dec 17 2011, 12:54 PM Post #3 |
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Not the director of D-9. Thats Neill Blomkamp. Gavin Hood directed X-men Wolverine; and some other indy movies that actually have good reviews. Both are S. African, hence the confusion. I wish it was Neill, but it could be worse. Meanwhile Neill is working on this: <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="null" width="550" height="253"><param name="movie" value="http://www.movieweb.com/v/VIKOJKJxGR4WPM" /><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess" /><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /><embed src="http://www.movieweb.com/v/VIKOJKJxGR4WPM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="550" height="253" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object> |
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