Ender's Game Movie Searching for New Director
io9 reports that Wolfgang Peterson is no longer directing the Ender's Game movie and producers are currently meeting with candidates to find a replacement.
Peterson's involvement in Ender's Game has been in doubt since last month when it was announced he would be directing the scifi movie Uprising.
EG Producer Lynn Hendee also gave a number of updates on the current status of the film:
- Orson Scott Card is currently working on revisions to his latest draft of the script.
- Casting will not begin until a director is chosen, so it's too early to speculate on who might be cast to play Ender Wiggin.
In other news, Marvel Comics announced today that there will be an Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow comic book series, written by Chris Yost (New X-Men, X-Force), with art by Pasqual Ferry (Ultimate Iron Man) and overseen by OSC.
This could be a warm-up for the Ender's Game movie, since Card explains that, "I'm hoping Marvel will show [Hollywood] how it's done, because you guys know how to put the story down in a visual way so that it comes to life."
posted by Ender's Game @ 7:30 PM
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The Marvel thing is a good idea in terms of marketing the film, and prepping hollywood.
I think I speak for most EG fans when I say that this movie has taken WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too long to get rolling...and it still has no Director.
*sigh*
Geeeez, I wasn't even BORN when the book came out. I really hope I'm still ALIVE when the movie does... how pathetic, I may as well just accept that I will never see Ender's Game on screen. Maybe that's a good thing, they will probably rape it when they make the movie..
i love all of the Ender's and Shadow's series i hope htat i can see the movie soon i am only 17 but i have loved the books. i wasn't even alive when the book came out buy my teacher recomended Ender's Game to me and i have read all of the books in the las 6 months. i can't wait to read "Shadow in Flight" by Orson Scott Card.
This is exciting news....very exciting. Awesome about the comic books...well the other news about not having a director is a tad sad...but oh well. They'll find one. I'm sure.
I'm just happy to see a posting of information on this potential movie. I'm also happy to see that Card is actively involved in the screen play which bodes well for the thing...whenever it does happen.
There is a preview for the comic at the end of the comic marvel has already made of Red Prophet, another popular card series (alvin maker)
I think that the book might be better served in a tv-series format, similar to the new battlestar gallactica series, or one of my favorites firefly. Each book could be a season with two series spinning off the original first season still based on enders game and enders shadow. Instead of trying to cram the whole story into 2-3 hours, you would have something like 24 hours to tell the same story.
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