Well, Ender's Game, the Hugo winning, freakin' amazing book, is finally going to be made into a movie. Harrison Ford is going to play Colonel Graff, and Ben Kingsley is going to be Mazer Rackham.Scott Card has held firm when the folks in Hollywood kept wanting to up the ages and make it a teen movie. He also commented, at the end of the audiobook, that it's difficult to take a book where so much takes place inside the main character's head. It all came together when they realized they needed to have it be about Bean, too.
Since I love Bean--who got his own story in the Ender's Shadow series, that totally works for me. I recently finished Shadows in Flight. *sniff*
Ender's Game Book Description:
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If the world survives, that is.
Bear in mind that Ender is only 12 at the end of the book. What a world when a 12-year-old kid could be considered as a general. Kinda blows the mind, doesn't it?
Have you read Ender's Game? What did you think of it? If you haven't, why not?
