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Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
 
http://www.hauntedcomputer.com/ghostwr3.htm

SOme in detail stuff on the movie enjoy!


 

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Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
You saw that was from 1998, right?
 

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Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 

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I posted the first section of my screenplay on the Internet, and my modification of the story has outraged some people to the point that they have threatened to write their OWN version of the script, and I've had to point out to them very kindly that even if they have no money, I have to sue them in order to protect my copyright. If I don't sue, then my work can go into the public domain, so please don't make me sue you and your university and your Internet provider and your parents and everybody else, so that I can protect my copyright.

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Edit: Bah, still funny even if its old ;/

[ April 26, 2005, 05:00 PM: Message edited by: kaioshin00 ]
 

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Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
 
This was from 1998!? I'm still reading it now. Whoa I gotta pay more attention... zzzzz
 

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Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
 
Q: You are renowned for playing Sid Meier's "Civilization" computer game.
Card: "Civilization II" is the one I play. Whether it's because they listened to my reviews of the first version or whether they're good and wise people, they've openly made the game more adaptable so that I can play the game I want. I can go in and fiddle with the "Rules.txt" file. I'm really not interested in the war-game aspect of that. It's still there, but it's trivial. I love exploring the right place to build a city, building it and growing it in the right way, outsmarting all the other computer-driven players and learning everything my people need to learn. The terrible thing is, I've learned my system and I'm just repeating it over and over again, so it's boring, but I'm addicted.

Giving up a game addiction causes withdrawal. When I travel without my computer, I have this anxiety that keeps me from sleeping because I'm not playing "Civilization." It's terrible. I don't feel that way about my fiction. I can sleep perfectly well having written nothing, but if I haven't played my game that day, I'm anxious.

Now this is funny.
 

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Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
 
Sid, I have always wondered if you're really *the* Sid Meier?
 

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Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
 
Now if I was the Sid Meier don't you think Mr. Card would be worshiping me or something? Rather then the other way around.
 

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Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
 
Trust me, he isn't the real Sid. Unless the he's a lot more garrulous on the Web than he when I met him in person.

-Bok
 

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Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
 
"Which would you rather have, the sales of 'The Last Starfighter,' which had the teen audience, or the sales of a movie like 'E.T.'?" And they go, "But 'E.T.' was a special movie." And I'd say, "Good, make a special movie out of Ender's Game. That's fine with me." "

I love it
 

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Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
 
I didn't think you were, but I was sleep deprived enough to ask last night.
 

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Posted by MagusFire (Member # 6780) on :
 
Will Smith as Mazer Rackham?

Rosie O'Donnel as... Graff?

Surely you jest!
 

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Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
 
Will Smith was not at that time the megastar he is now. Rosie O'Donnell was not yet the smug prig she later revealed herself to be.

Now it's Ellen DeGeneres as Anderson and the big Hawaiian guy from 50 First Dates as Graff.
 

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Posted by aiua (Member # 7825) on :
 
Ellen DeGeneres- seriously? I thought she was more of a comedian..
 

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Posted by Crotalus (Member # 7339) on :
 
I think he was making a joke. I sure hope he was anyway.
 

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Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
 

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Q: Ender's Game obviously has commercial appeal. Why didn't you ever take the easy way out and just sell the film rights?
Card: I've always had interest from Hollywood in Ender's Game, and they've always wanted to turn Ender into a sixteen-year-old. And I said, "Look, there's no way this sixteen-year-old is going to be fooled. Even if they were telling him the TRUTH, he wouldn't believe them. And when they're lying to him, of course he won't believe them. Especially if he's bright. You have to have a certain innocence, the naiveté of a certain age in order to be gullible enough to be victimized in this way."

They didn't get it. They wanted to cast the next Brad Pitt, so he could have a love interest. They wanted to remake "The Last Starfighter."

I refused to deal with people until they agreed that Ender would be played as under age twelve. Again, it's these same rules: "But we want the teen audience." And I would say, "Which would you rather have, the sales of 'The Last Starfighter,' which had the teen audience, or the sales of a movie like 'E.T.'?" And they go, "But 'E.T.' was a special movie." And I'd say, "Good, make a special movie out of Ender's Game. That's fine with me."

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I think he was making a joke. I sure hope he was anyway.

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