{"id":1089,"date":"2011-11-27T23:38:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T03:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2011-11-27T23:38:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T03:38:23","slug":"enders-game-film-to-start-shooting-in-2012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Ender’s Game film to start shooting in 2012… ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After years, nay, decades of being stuck in development hell<\/del> heck, it seems a film version of one of my favorite books of all time, Ender’s Game<\/a>\"\", is finally getting the big screen treatment. According to this article<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Summit Entertainment, the production company behind "The Twilight Saga" films, has acquired the rights to the youth-oriented "Ender’s Game" franchise. … The shoot is scheduled to run from February 24, 2012 through June 8, 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be honest, I’m not holding my breath for the film to be amazing. It certainly has potential<\/em>, but I think it will be a very tough adaptation. Although it’s sci-fi, and there’s certainly some sci-fi battle action involved, it is not<\/em> an action adventure story. It is, I think, a drama<\/em> more than anything else. And if they overdo the action and underplay the social issues, I don’t think it’ll work story-wise. But if they overdo the social issues and underplay the action, it will be a marketing nightmare. The story deals with a "battle school" filled with children, yet it is certainly not<\/em> a happy Disney-ish or Nickelodeon-ish kids’ adventure, and I hope they don’t try turning it into one, even though that would make it much more marketable.<\/p>\n

All that said, I’m excited that it’s finally gotten to this point of development, and I look forward to watching what happens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After years, nay, decades of being stuck in development hell heck, it seems a film version of one of my favorite books of all time, Ender’s Game, is finally getting the big screen treatment. According to this article: Summit Entertainment, the production company behind "The Twilight Saga" films, has acquired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[99],"tags":[452,48],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-hz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}