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Posted by Vic (Member # 11637) on :

Ridley Scott recently said his next film will be a sci-fi flick from a book written over 20 years ago and according to
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Ridley-Returns-To-Sci-Fi-Could-It-Be-Ender-9063.html it could be Enders Game. If i had to pick a director for this movie he would be one of my top three but a course we know the man making that decision. So do you all think its garbage or could a Scott/Card project work?

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

I thought someone said that the next director-to-be was a woman.

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

That's based on a reference that Card himself made.

It's not like there aren't plenty of sci-fi books that were written 20 years ago.

Besides, Ridley Scott looks to be pretty busy through 2009. He's producing a half dozen movies and directing three, plus his work on Numb3rs.

Posted by JustAskIndiana (Member # 9268) on :

I wonder if that would immediately imply Russel Crowe as part of the cast.

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

If this is the Ridley Scott of American Gangster, then this is not a movie I want to see.

I have never seen a movie that was so unbelievably by the numbers as American Gangster. It's shockingly unoriginal. Well, the script wasn't much to work with, but really the lack of inspiration on that level of filmaking was mind boggling. Considering the look of the thing, it might have at least been a little creative, but it wasn't.

Posted by JLM (Member # 7800) on :

"Neuromancer" came out just a year before "Ender's Game", so that is a possibility.

Posted by LargeTuna (Member # 10512) on :

Neuromancer is allready a movie ... kinda i guess [Wink]

Posted by Cactus Jack (Member # 2671) on :

I think the Ridley Scott movie is "Brave New World"

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-reynolds16mar16,0,354337.story

You'll note in the cinemablend article, it doesn't say, "It's a 20 year old book." He says, "I've waited for this book for over 20 years.

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

The only established female sci fi director that springs immediately to mind is Gail Ann Hurd.

Posted by Adam_S (Member # 9695) on :

other possibility is Kathryn Bigelow

Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :

wow. people stll know Kathryn Bigelow by name? that's awesome. I'm a fan of hers. But what's she doing now....?

Posted by The Reader (Member # 3636) on :

Hasn't Roxanne Dawson done a lot of sci-fi directing?

That's more bad than good I think. [Razz]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Roxann Dawson? As in B'Elanna Torres? *blink*

Huh. Although it looks like all her directing has been in TV.

Posted by Alai (Member # 1663) on :

I'm pretty sure it's Kathryn Bigelow...

Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :

Please don't let hollywood Star Trekify Ender's Game, I would be devastated if that happened. To me, the science in Ender's Game was far more feasible than the usual stuff on Star Trek.

I have a growing suspicion that this movie will never get made. I think hollywood wants it one way when OSC wants it another, and it seems one will have to bend. [Frown]

I'm hoping that's not the case.

Posted by DDDaysh (Member # 9499) on :

I'd be ok if Ender's Game was never a movie.... but I'd be angry if it became a bad movie...

Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :

Catherine Hardwicke ?

/speculation

Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :

quote:
Neuromancer is allready a movie

Huh?

Posted by 0palmtree6 (Member # 11560) on :

quote:
Originally posted by TL:
Catherine Hardwicke ?

/speculation

Not Catherine Hardwick!! At least, it better not be...

Posted by Earendil18 (Member # 3180) on :

I'd nominate Julie Taymor of "Frida"