Adapting Ender film

Has enough time passed since the B-movie debacle that was Starship Troopers, the event that single-handedly set the sci-fi genre back 20 years in terms of credibility, to make another film about insect-like aliens hell-bent on taking over the Earth?

Is there enough distance from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to have another epic about fighting for the existence of your people and their values?

The answer to both questions is yes, when posed in response to the adaption of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, one of the few books to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and quite easily one of my five favorite books of all time.

David Hayter's co-writers for X2 will adapt the script based on Card's quiet sale of the film rights to both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, a more recent novel which tells the same story from another main character's point-of-view.

As with all of the upcoming adaptations - Watchmen, Hitchiker's Guide, etc. - I am hoping for a LotR-quality transition to the big screen but preparing for the worst.

Posted by Dan on February 10, 2004 at 04:31 PM | TrackBack


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If another adaptation turns out to be as bad as Starship Troopers, I will kill. Unfortunately, that same delusional, retarded, moronic mindset which guides these imbecilic cretins to feel that the festering pile of carrion that was Starshit Troopers was worth releasing onto and charging the unsuspecting public ten dollars also keeps them from realizing that it would be best for this troubled world if they simply scrubbed all traces of themselves and their spawn from the gene pool.

In short, I hated that fucking movie.

-"At least I got you... Johnny..." *gasp* *die*
God, it still makes me want to puke.

Posted by: Antitheus on February 15, 2004 02:51 PM


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