The Ender's Game series- Now discussing ENDER IN EXILE

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Comment by Rich G:

Orson Scott Card had his own panel at NYCC on Saturday, and he talked about the Ender's Game movie. He said that he and Petersen split because Petersen wanted to make a movie that was called Ender's Game but had no relation to the book that Card had written. He also said that he is currently talking with a director who "gets it" and has ambitions of making a movie that could contend for Best Picture, not just be another summer sci-fi blockbuster. On a side note, he called this director "she," so feel free to speculate who that might be. (Oscar ambitions, good with kids... Jodie Foster, perhaps?) Furthermore, he said he had finished the fifth draft of the screenplay and offhandedly referred to it as the "Battle School" story, so expect a good dose of Bean and the other kids, not just Ender. As for casting, he said that if the story is about a worldwide search for Battle School candidates and you don't have 80% of them from southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa, then you're not doing the story right, despite Hollywood's white-centric preferences. And as for Ender himself, he said he was so optimistic about the movie's development, the kid who will play Ender (not cast yet, of course) is probably in first grade now and will be in fourth grade by the time they get filming.

 

In the introductions to the novels I have, he explains that the Speaker for the Dead was never about Ender until he decided to connect the Speaker for the Dead novel with his Ender's Game novella and make Ender be the Speaker. Having decided that, he had to first develop Ender's Game into an actual full-length novel.

So while Speaker was the original novel on his mind, Ender was not originally cast as the Speaker. He had to fix it so that Ender could fit into the story he had in mind.



Anyway, after reading Speaker, I don't think I could continue with the following novel (Xenocide is it?). Speaker was so dry for the most part that I could barely read a page at a time before wanting to sleep--whereas Game had me hooked and thirsty for more.

Card's introduction in my copy of Speaker also has him saying that Xenocide is even slower-paced than Speaker, so I really think I'll have to sit that one out.


So instead I ended up getting Matt Stover's Heroes Die.

 

So read Ender's Shadow instead.

 

No wonder I get confused...

 

Upped for use...

 

Hurray for uppage (thanks Zaz)

I love the Ender's Game series so far. I finished Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets after I got them two days ago (I read fast). I've loved them so much so far. Shadow Puppets got me so hooked with the love story between Petra and Bean. I've got to say that some of Card's sentences like "I realized I was going to have his children no matter what," made me just laugh uncontrollable.

As for speaker of the dead I remember that in the intro to the book Card states that he meant for Speaker of the Dead to be a stand alone novel seperated from the Ender's Game Series. He said that it didn't matter if you hadn't read the Ender's Game series because you didn't need to.

 

So are you reading these in random ass order or what?

 

No I'm reading them in a in universe chronological order.

 

Okay I just finished Ender In Exile and I LOVED IT. I thought it was really great. I am trying to decide if I should read it again or start with "The Polish Boy" and read through the entire thing chronologically.

 

I never got through the first book, let alone the last...

 

Looks like the film adaptation is getting scrapped:

http://geeksofdoom.com/2009/01/07/enders-game-film-adaptation-gets-scrapped/

 

I agree with Card on this.

 

There are worse things than an insincere big budget film adaptation. It could become a Sci Fi Channel miniseries.

 

No thanks.

 

Best to leave it alone, I think.

 

What can you even say about it, having not even read the book? Of course you would think that...