Showing posts with label Orson Scott Card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orson Scott Card. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

ENDER'S GAME Teaser Drops!




It's a shame that author Orson Scott Card is such a homophobic jerk because his novel, Ender's Game, is really quite stunning. It's a fantastic sci-fi story that starts small then builds and becomes this grand tale by the end. I have hope for film and even in the film makers to fix some of the problems in the book, which I'm sure I will get into when the review comes out.

Now that the first teaser is out, we can begin to see the real scope of the world that was orginially just limited to my imagination. But most importantly, we get our first, ever so tiny, glimpses of the zero gravity battle room, which was the most exciting part of the book.

Here's the synopsis:
After an alien race called the Formics attacks Earth, the International Fleet prepare for the next invasion by training the best young children to find the future leader to lead the International Military. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a shy but strategically brilliant boy, is pulled out of his school to join International Fleet and attend the legendary Battle School. After easily mastering the increasingly difficult war games, distinguishing himself and winning respect among his peers, Ender is soon ordained by Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) as the military's next great hope, resulting in his promotion to Command School. Once there, he's trained by Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) himself to lead the military into a war that will determine the future of Earth and the human race.

Check the trailer after the jump.


Friday, December 2, 2011

ENDER'S GAME Casting News Galore!



The adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fy classic ENDER'S GAME has been a tumolutous one. The book is about a futuristic Earth that has been attacked by aliens, The Buggers, and the military recruits young kids to be groomed into leaders to fight The Buggers.  Card had developed a script as far back as 2003 working with Warner Bros. and Wolfgang Peterson. The project fell through for many years, but now Summit Entertainment has picked up distribution rights. With the almost perfect timing with the new craze of young adult book-to-movie adaptations nowadays, production is finally starting to kick into gear with a finished script by director Gavin Hood with the producing duo of Kurtzman and Orci.