That looks awesome! Really hope they do a good job.

Talented cast...though I remain pessimistic for some reason I can't put my finger on.

If they fuck this up, if they fuck this up, I am going to MAKE A CHEATING ACCUSATION ON THE FORUM.

- It looks like Hunger Games in space with all the kids.
- I like Ben Kingsley's Mike Tyson face tattoo.

@Mapu, the hunger games wishes it was 1/10 as good as Olson Scott Card's book.

Ender *way* predates Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games are in the same category as Ender's Game in the sense that they are both fictional or sci-fi series, but so is an average joe on this site compared to MM.
They both may play the same game called Diplomacy, but there are stark differences between them.

The Hunger Games is passable fictional writing. Ender's Game is one of the best sci-fi books ever written.

Spoiler Alrt about the book:








My big concern is it seems lile they are playing it such that Ender knows he is fighting. the Formics and not playing a game which destroys the whole premise.

Orson*, and some of us prefer to further appreciate the book by pretending that its author doesn't exist.

@Draug: From what I am reading, the movie encapsulates the first 2 books, meaning that "twist" could be unveiled even in the first half of the film.

Well, that would really suck, Tom.

But Draug, Ender always knew he was preparing to fight Formics.

I was too annoyed with the hunger games comparison to type correctly ghug.

@Draug, agreed, I'm hoping this is not a movie that deviates much from the book. There is no need to change the story line at all. Hopefully it's what Tom mentioned

But Ender actually states "I will win this war for you" and it is presented as if he is saying it to the Colonel. And they would be better off combining EG with the first two Bean novels. Speaker is way to disconnected from EG as he is an adult in it. Heck, combining it with Ender in Exile would be better as at least tyat follows right behind in the Enderverse chronology.

And yes, I have read all the books (well, except Shadows in Flight but will get to it on my upcoming vacation).

So I now have 5 movies to watch this year: EG, Iron Man 3, Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Hobbit part 2, and Man of Steel.

That is a good looking list Draug. I thought Iron Man 3 was a bit underwhelming, but still probably worth the price of admission.

I have very high expectations for the Man of Steel, really looking forward to that.

They just released a pretty big preview of the Hans Zimmer score for Man of Steel today.

Agree with Draug above. Destroying the premise of Ender "just" going through training seems to make it little more than a sci-fi flick. I certainly hope they won't...

On the fun side, I also need to catch Monsters University (sequel to Monsters, Inc.)

That line of "I will win this war for you!" doesn't mean he knows he's actually been fighting them for real. It could be one of those "I'm ready to go out there and kick some alien behind and will win this war for you."

Trailers do that all the time, make comments look like somethig they aren't. So we will see. It's just a concern that they *might* go that way and destroy the whole premise of the book (and his motivation in Speaker, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind).

Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead were actually published together as Ender's War, so I don't find it odd they'd combine the two into a movie.

Not originally they weren't. That was only some stupid book club edition. The novels take place decades apart in Ender's life and centuries (millenia) apart in universe time. It was stupid to combine them together. It would be like combinging the Hobbit with Fellowship of the Ring because both had the One Ring and Bilbo Baggins. If you were going to combine books, Speaker, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind would be the ones to combine (like Fellowship, Two Towers, and Return of the King).

Now a blending of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow would be cool too. Considering both tell much of the same story from different points of view. The problem there would be all the lead up in Ender's Shadow is about Bean's life on Earth and has nothing at all to do with Ender.

Yes, of course not originally, that would make no sense.

I read an interview with Card about the movie, and he said that the plot device that isn't revealed until the end of the book is not made a secret at all in the movie.

"The first decision I made was not to pursue the Peter/Valentine subplot with the Internet, because that's just watching people type things into the computer. The second decision I made was to give that information about the surprise at the end from the start."

Found it: http://www.hatrack.com/research/interviews/1998-scott-nicholson.shtml

Well, if it's Card's script then there is yet hope.

That seems like it would change the whole story. The impact of the shock that we and Ender feel would be lost.

I can handle us knowing but if Ender knows, it isn't a game anymore so the name no longer makes sense.

I've enjoyed the book many times and enjoyed it just fine without being surprised at the end. So for us to know is not a problem. But for Ender to know would be a different story.