quote:Originally posted by Quimby2999: I've never pictured Battle School as being all or even mostly white and it seems to me that all throughout both Ender's Game and Shadow he's made it a point not to describe it as such.
And that's one of the main reasons Hollywood needs to get their heads out of the sand.
Can you imagine the anglicized jeesh?
Han Tzu would be renamed Han ... Solo? Maybe just Hank. Alai would be ... Ollie? Petra would be ... Hmmm... as the only woman in the jeesh, has to be a name *everyone* can relate to. I know: Madison (#3 girl's name for 2005)! Or maybe some completely weirded out spelling of Ashley (#10). "Ayschleiyygh". Yeah, that's it. Posts: 23 | Registered: Jul 2006
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quote:Originally posted by The Mister: I forget which, but either Dink or Crazy Tom is an Aussie - not sure if he was a city boy or from the "EEyout-BEEyak". Either way, it's conceivable that he might have a bit of aboriginal blood in him. However, he doesn't HAVE to be.
I think the Aussie was Carn Carby.
Also about the Bean racial issure, I was rereading SotH and there's this part on page 374 where the Indian soldiers were talking to Virlomi about Bean and Suri and described them as "One white, One brown." So apparently Bean has African features but still has relatively white skin???
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I just want to know when they plan on casting. Obviously this is an issue that needs to be worked out before casting but I would prefer there be solid steps towards making this movie happen. Casting is a sound way to prove that the movie is actually going to happen... and not just an idea.
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Well, phooey. OSC visited last night (first time in 3.5 weeks - I have no doubt he's been very busy) and this thread had fallen to the second page, so he didn't see my question.
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I apologize for what looks like blatant ego gratification in my bumping this thread back up to the top. OSC has been visiting a bit more often lately and, since there was enough interest in the topic to get it to the second page, I figured there are enough of us here who would be interested in knowing his answer. If it falls off the front page again before OSC sees it, I'll surrender to my bad luck and let it be. Posts: 23 | Registered: Jul 2006
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A problem I see with the makeup of having the movie not coinside with the book is, if they wanted to make sequels to the movie fallowing along the lines of the Shadow series, then if they didn't have someone like Alai or Vlad be the race it says in the book then Alai be Calif, or Vlad be tied down in the Russian government. I just dont see how they can make it work in later years with out changing actors to fit they're needs.
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why are they making him female? Is it for some sort of plot thing? It doesnt make sense to me that the drill and tactics coordinator for essentially male school would be female.
I am not being sexist, I think it would be equally strange if you flipped the equation.
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OSC has definitely said in the past that the movie will be 100% stand-alone. NO sequels, ever. While it's possible OSC could change his mind, given the way he said it, I doubt he will. So that answers Feer's concern.
Not that this would justify having a white-washed cast.
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quote:Originally posted by Libbie: Interesting! I never pictured Bean as black, but as a sort of swarthy little Mediterranean dude. Like my husband in miniature. But I could dig a black Bean.
Petra HAS to have a wicked awesome Armenian accent, though. I love Armenian accents!
My roommate is armenian but she doesn't have an accent. She's good at mexican accents though, so we both start talking like stereotypical mexican women once in while. She was really surprised when I told her about Petra being Armenian since she said, "few people even know armenia exists..."
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