When humanity is under threat from an alien race,
Ender Wiggin, at the age of six, leaves his family on Earth to journey to
the Belt. There he enters Battle School, where his life is strictly
disciplined by mind games and computer mock-battles fought in deadly
earnest. Instinct, compassion and genius make Ender unequalled. But while
he trains, the invasion approaches fast. And Ender will be pushed to the
limits of endurance, for his is a unique destiny . . .
WE SAY
A bona fide science fiction
classic, Orson Scott Card’s 1985 novel actually won both the Hugo and
Nebula awards.
This project has been in
development heck since about 2002. In 2005 it was announced that David
Benioff, the Troy scribe, and Dan Weiss are set to pen Ender's Game
in conjunction with Troy director Wolfgang
Peterson. (Peterson made a splash with Das Bootway
back in 1985 and has since directed the likes of Air Force One,
Poseidon and In the Line of Fire. His previous forays in the
SF/fantasy genre were Never-Ending Story
in 1984 and Enemy Mine in 1985.)
At one stage Peterson’s next
project was supposed to be The Grays, a piece of hokum by Whitley
Striebler who wrote the dreadful Communion
in which the author seriously claimed to have been anally probed by aliens
that kidnapped him.
According to the latest reports (dated 7 January
2009) Peterson has however dropped out of this project largely because
author Card was unhappy with the direction the film was taking. Author
Card said that he was simply not interested in a "tough-hero action film".
That doesn't mean that Card believes a film version can't happen.
Apparently he hopes that a new Marvel comic book adaptation of his novel
will convince Hollywood that a faithful adaptation of Ender's Game
is possible . . .
We here at the Sci-Fi Movie Page
often lament about how many great science fiction stories never get made while a lot of crud doget made.
However we share Card's dread of Hollywood
tackling this book: it can so easily become The Last Starfighter with small kids
. . . shudder!
Ender's Game
(TBA) 
