Or at least, I am, and I don’t feel bad telling you that you should go.
If you’re not familiar with Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game series of books, here’s a short synopsis: In the future, Earth is attacked by alien forces. To combat them, Earth forces unite to create a space-station/school for select children, training them from preschool to be the greatest tactical military minds we could ever need or want. Ender Wiggin is one of those kids.
From there, there’s a bunch of floating in simulated war games, and child-on-child violence, and things blowing up mixed in with geopolitics and people having feelings about stuff.
As a huge fan of Ender’s Game (and the companion Shadow Series following Bean, a supporting character from Ender’s Game), I’m excited — not just because this was a favorite book of mine growing up, but because the cast and effects appear to actually do the book justice.
The movie comes out Nov. 1. I’ll see you folks there.
This article appears in May 9-15, 2013.
“The movie comes out Nov. 1. I’ll see you folks there.”
You won’t be seeing me there, or anybody else that gives a crap about right and wrong.
Orson Scott Card is a gay-hating asshat. You can bet that some of the money he makes from this movie will go to support discrimination.
I’m really conflicted – Enders Game was a great book and I want to see it, but I don’t want to support Orson Scott Card in any way – he has turned out to be such an evil person.
PS – Enders Game was great, the sequels quickly turn to crap. He was a one shot pony who got lucky with Ender’s
ArdRat, Patrick ONeil,
I don’t like Card’s beliefs, and it’s troubling to consider that my money will go to someone who straight-up hates same-sex marriage, believe me.
At the same time, I’m willing to divorce my enjoyment of some of his work from the man who created it — there’s nothing in either ‘Ender’s Game’ or ‘Ender’s Shadow’ that is quite obviously anti-gay (that I can recall).
If he decides to spend his money fighting what he perceives to be a horrible injustice (one that’s rapidly being approved of by legislatures across the country), that’s his prerogative. Mine is to enjoy an adaptation of his work of fiction, then to point out that he’s hanging on to a side that’s rapidly losing its fingerholds on society.