Summit Entertainment is in conversations to produce the big-screen version of Ender’s Game.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the studio would co-finance the production and have the U.S. distribution rights to the film based on the Orson Scott Card novel.
The 1985 novel is set in a future where the Earth is under attack by an insect-like race and mankind has created a battle school to train fighting forces. In this environment enters Ender Wiggin, a kid who is tormented by bullies and an older brother but proves to be a master at a three-dimensional, zero-gravity laser tag-like game. That sets him on a path as a possible savior of the human race.
The novel won a Nebula Award as well as a Hugo Award and was followed by five books. Marvel Comics also adapted the novels into the four-color world.
The novel has been in development limbo for years but was put on the fast track earlier this year when Gavin Hood penned a screenplay for it. Hood would also direct the film.
Hollywood unicorn: I’ll believe it when I see it at my local theater.
Aren’t these the Twilight and Furry Vengeance people? Errr…
Well… they are also the RED, Astro Boy and Hurt Locker people too.
So… YAY!
I don’t believe this will happen though.
Regarding “Twilight” and “Furry Vengeance”, consider the source material. You can only polish a turd so much.
And yet the turd we’re talking about here is O S Card. He’s about the biggest turd you’re likely to find. So I’m hoping it doesn’t get made while he’s alive. In fact, I’m hoping he loses all of his money, and he dies alone, penniless, on some long-forgotten street corner, and I’m hoping it happens sooner rather than later.
I for one will not mourn the passing of one Orson Scott Card.
Actually I called and talked to both him and his wife and they were both extremely nice considering i was a stranger who hunted down their phone number and randomly called them up one day. I am a fan of Enders Game series and just wanted to talk to the person who wrote some of my favorite books. Very nice people.
Mitch from Omaha, its pretty easy to come on here and slam someone but you have not shown us why you think this way. You sound pretty rude and ignorant without providing a reason for your comments. Do you know him personally or are you just wanting to bash him. Even if he was a turd he still wrote some good books. So dont be a tar tar and just slam someone in a comments section without providing a reason. Idiot.
And if they want to change the ages of the characters to teenagers like all the rest then Card will shoot it down. Just like the rest.