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Just went and shook my magic moral ball and it came back nah so I'll be torrenting the film a few days after it's out and if it's not horrible I'll catch it in the theater.
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quote:Originally posted by scifibum: The clip looks good. "Bahnzo" could be subtle fun being poked by Graff.
It could be. But it's a joke no one would get if they hadn't read the book unless they go out of their way to explain it.
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quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: If anybody is interested, Mr. Card has seen a rough cut and he said
...Oh did he?
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I was being mean.
He says he thought it was a good movie. He's happy with how it came out. And of course it's not the book but no movie was going to be the book anyway.
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quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: If anybody is interested, Mr. Card has seen a rough cut and he said
...Oh did he?
Hobbes
I was being mean.
He says he thought it was a good movie. He's happy with how it came out. And of course it's not the book but no movie was going to be the book anyway.
I know I'll go see it if it's good or not (and if it gets good reviews or not). I'm way too invested to skip it. How good it is will determine how many times I go back. Honestly, even if it's terrible I'll still be excited that the Ender's Game movie finally came out. I hope it's good, not just so that I can enjoy it, but so it can open up more of Card's books for translation to the big screen. I don't know how much this recent "boycott OSC" push has impacted the chances of that happening, but I know there's a lot more of his work I'd love to see adapted to cinema.
Speaker might translate well onto the big screen, but I don't think Xenocide or Children of the Mind would.
Some of OSC's other books may work. Pastwatch, Homebody, Treasure Box, Lost Boys, and Invasive Procedures come to mind would probably all translate well onto the big screen.
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I have huge doubts that we'll ever seen any of the books directly translated to film. The best we'll get is a movie sequel that "borrows" material from the novels very sparingly. Like maybe they'll adapt Ender in Exile, but have aliens attack and have Ender basically turn into an action hero. I can't really see it turning out any other way.
As for his other stories, I'd be fine with seeing a TV show based on the Mithermages, like Geraine said.
I would LOVE to see something for The Worthing Saga. I doubt it will ever happen, though.
Pathfinder also seems like it might be plausible, but he'd have to finish the story for that to happen.
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I think those two are too weird. *I* want to see those movies, but I don't think they'd appeal to a studio.
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quote:Originally posted by MrSquicky: Like I said, the trailers, besides being very Michael Bey-like, showed an engaged and resolute Ender blowing up the Bugger's homeworld in a "Heck Yeah!" moment.
Watch it again. He's not blowing up the planet in that scene, there just happens to be a planet in the background. I think it's actually going to be his first battle where he uses the MD Device to take out the whole bugger fleet in one shot.
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