quote: The project is one close to the heart of one of the writers. "My parents gave me the book when I was a kid, and it is the reason I fell in love with science fiction and is somewhat responsible for what I am doing for a career," said Dan Harris to Variety.
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Well, here's the link...and here's what we were trying to remember that he said about X2. That last line is especially nice, though not necessarily directed at the writers.
quote:Speaking of X2, the X-Men sequel, what is there to say? It never lost my attention, but it also never won my heart. At the end, when one of the good guys died -- an absolutely unnecessary and meaningless death, too -- several scenelets were devoted to getting all mournful about this character's "sacrifice." I kept waiting for somebody to say, "If (unnamed character) could part a flood and lift a ship from outside, why not lift it from inside and not die?"
But the only place where that question got asked was in the audience.
The truth is, if you're a fan of this kind of thing, you've already seen it by now, and if you're not particularly fond of comic-books-made-into-huge-budget-special-effects-extravaganzas, then there's no reason to think this one will spark any unexpected interest. I'm glad these actors all got paid, but somewhere along the line, isn't somebody in charge of connecting these films to reality, at least now and then?
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Well, as writers are the guys who, you know, write the thing, I can see that OSC would lay the blame directly upon their underpaid shoulders. This could be interesting.
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I was thinking they'd change that whole expensive space-station-based school thing with a high school for gifted kids, and then there's some kids from the regular school who come over and want to bug the gifted kids, so Ender, the semi-cool nerd kid figures out they can fight them if they all just stick together, you know.
And then they get creamed anyway. But mom bakes cookies and they all go on to great schools like Stanford or Columbia.
And end up owning companies where they can hire and fire their old tormentors -- the buggers.
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I hope these guys do a good job with the script. Overall, I liked the dialogue of X2, but the plot wasn't that interesting to me. Hopefully they won't have to change very much because I would really enjoy seeing how well OSC's storytelling abilities translate to the screen.
I still hold on to the fantasy that OSC could some how team up with Lawrence Kasdan and develop a phenomenal script.
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I'm just glad that we are a step closer to seeing the movie. I'm also really happy to see that at least one of the guys knows the book and will be careful to keep it true to the story.
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My guess is that they won't have to do much, just make sure it works for film. Since OSC is already a playwright, we know he knows how to adapt for theater.
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I never had that problem with X2. When her powers went weird in the first scenes in the movie, everything around her that was electronic went nuts. Same thing started to happen inside the jet at the end.
She had to go outside, otherwise whatever was happening to her would interfere with the jet's electronics. It seemed obvious to me, but I guess it wasn't clear enough.
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