Thread: Anything by Orson Scott Card

Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it.

The Talia Brie Project is on hold at the moment, about 1/3 through the second book, while I work on something new.

I'm glad you enjoyed the story though. Talia Brie and the Throne of Dorsen is almost my favourite, but you have to read them in order.

I can't find anything else on this movie, except a release date sometime in 2006.

My confidence is waining.

And apparantly it's Enders Game and Enders Shadow that have been optioned. Not sure how they are going to do it, but I'd expect something like Master and Commander. That was based on two books, with elements from each being cobbled together to make a whole film. So I'd expect they'll try to reference some of the material from Enders Shadow into the training element of Enders Game. I haven't read the books, so I'm not sure.

That would work a little better I think since those two books are the same time period, just different perspectives. Still a lot of story telling for a movie.

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ENDER'S GAME MOVIE?!!!!

Why haven't I heard of this before?!

AAAAARGH!!!!

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*commences sanity*

Well, if Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow were put together into one movie, I think that could work well. It would just require a bit of selective cutting for the most important scenes. It might be hard to focus on both Ender and Bean, but if OSC himself is writing the screenplay, then how could it be bad?

Originally Posted by Dark Aevin

... then how could it be bad?

Oh great, you jinxed it!

Well, it's going to blow for sure now!

*giggles*

I had no idea I had such power. Let me try again.

Good lord ... An Ender's Game movie?! How could it possibly be good?

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I hope it works.

Ugh... Its being directed by Wolfgang Peterson, he has a reputation for ruining good books *coughs*Troy*coughs*

All joking aside, I think it has the potential to be great. A huge potential obstacle would be the casting--when you've got very young main characters, finding actors actually talented enough to play the roles would be very difficult. I mean ... we're talking significantly younger than Harry Potter actors playing pretty major roles. It could be potentially very tricky.

OSC isn't writing the final screenplay. He wrote one on contract to Warner Bros, who have now contracted the 2 guys who wrote Xmen 2 to rewrite it.

Don't get too excited though, there's been no movement on it in the last 12 months. No cast predictions, no filming schedules. Nothing. It still might not happen.

Card is definitly one of my favorite authors, but I stick to the Ender series and it's shadow series which focuses mainly on Bean, and some of the others from Ender's Game.

Although I personally enjoyed them, I think the books following Ender's Game (Speaker for the Dead, Children of the Mind, etc) were unintentionally written by Card for another audience than Ender's Game. They delt alot more with Ender has a adult, where as alot of teen's couldn't relate as well as they had with Ender's Game.

Don't actually know why I said that, jus wanted to place my thoughts on it.

As for the movie, I really don't want to see it. Any book i've read that has become a movie always disappoints me, because the casted characters never lives up to the characters in my mind. Except for the LOTR hobbits.

- Madness

From his series, I've read Ender's Game and Ender's Shawdow. Both really amazing and yes, awe-worthy books. So many complexities of the mind stuffed into each one O_O And we get to read it straight out of.. the mind in question? Bean or Ender. I loved them...

I hate Orson Scott Card, he's a cheap excuse for pulp fiction

I've only read the Ender Quartet and the Shadow series (Bean). I liked them quite a lot, though. Orson Scott Card is a wonderful writer.

Originally Posted by kerpoe

I hate Orson Scott Card, he's a cheap excuse for pulp fiction

That's a great reason to hate somebody.

I have yet to "hear" mention of 'Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus' on any of these O.S.C. posts. I'm sorry, but was I the only one who loved this book.

P.S. I think, due to time zones (I am in Taiwan), I am the only one posting on this forum at the moment. Sorry 'bout that.