Not done yet.
I have read all of the books, and think it could make a good movie.
Let's take something basic here. The actor who will play Ender. If this movie is done in live-action, you have to find an actor that looks six and can play a precocious one at that, and then at the end of the movie, the actor has to look eleven or twelve years old. You can find another actor that might look the same as the six-year-old one, but there is a difference.
Or they might do what they did for a Harry Potter movie. Dumbledore's head is pasted on, yay.
Plus, you have to find a really short kid to play Bean. A really short kid, who looks two-or-three years old who can talk.
So if they don't go live-action, and instead go CGI, they have to find really damn good actors to give the emotions behind these voices. Sheer desperation, emotional tiredness, pure vicious nature.
The problems taking these books to the movie screen are numerous. Important details to the story were taken out between the book version of
Game and the comic version. The same thing with
Shadow. The comic shows how Bean feels (with whatever emotion he has when he's young), but it doesn't show his thoughts at all. And from what I've studied (yes, actually
studied) of the first three chapters of
Shadow, the bulk of the story is Bean's thoughts because you can get right into his head.
That's what's going from the movie. The ability to get into the character's head. (Though that's something that Card has very slowly lost in his writing, if the lack of emotions felt on the part of Ender in
Ender in Exile was to be believed. Of course, that book was claimed by fans to have been read "like a fanfic" for what it was worth. Same with
A War of Gifts.)
And then there's a big problem: No one who has worked on the movie has ever agreed with anything. So that halts the production of the movie.
It's been "in production" for
years because of all these problems. Kind of tells me something, along with the other Hatrackers about this movie.
I went to the website of city libraries in Helsinki and searched for 'ender', because I don't know the names of the books in Finnish. The results? The city of Helsinki owns seven copies of Ender's Game (cleverly named Ender in Finnish), one of which is lost, one replaced, one that should have been returned to the library 23rd of August in 2004 and the rest cheked out.
Ender's Game is one of the most lost books in libraries. *points to someone who kidnapped a copy*
And the Finnish cover of
Ender's Game is weird. It's like Hand of God! Only Hand Of Andrew, Astinus's god! (Oh gods, what is
wrong with the Brazilian covers? ;.; )
Okay, now to shut up and update my LiveJournal with this all, and get back on-topic.
Oh! Let's not forget the "anime to live-action" movies.
Dragonball Z comes to mind. :D
Bad books make bad movies. Hi, Twilight!
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What would your characters read if they had time to do something so trivial in the midst of their adventures? Comics? Books? Newspapers? The sides of cereal boxes?
Aden periodically reads newspapers, because she wants to hear about mass loss of life. Aside from that, and her survival handbook, she doesn't read all that much.
Shinrai would read whatever she would get her hands on because she's just a snob. And that's how she rolls.
Angel reads cookbooks. That's all that I know. He might also read histories and certain books that change the universe, but most of the time he reads cookbooks and language books.