No the creator said that he didn't want the violence to be adapted from speaker of the dead and if you read it speaker of the dead's mature and realistic violent political themes speak for itself and check Wikipedia because the author has said the violence is something he would not be able to film. If the author is personally asking for a sequel not to be made you can tell that the creator maybe horrified with the violence.
i remeber no anti guy theme in this flim, what sane reason would people boy-cot it for... irelevent, unconected political views of a member of its cast or crew... and if your awnser is yes, becuase you would in a way be supporting the person with anti gay views... then while your boy-coting this film ,please remember to refuse to pay your taxes to the goverment, becuase there are some employes that are anti-gay working in areas of the goverment on every level, and you wouldint want to support those people right... im sure when your locked up youll feel very wise for holding to your iratinal views, and will be remembered not as an idiot but a martir... becuase otherwise... youd be a hipocrite... please dont pretend its different becuase its the goverment... you wouldint want to be known to cowordly tolerat the injustace of an opresive goverment forcing people to pay taxes to support anti-gay simpathizors right becuase we cant seperate politics from any facet of life... no it must be forced where it does not mater, like into art, music, and games... becuase only the people with the right politics should be allowed to create... anything... we wouldint want to let any kind of discorse open on anything... beter to not risk sheep like hourds mindlessly shoffuling to the wrong side on an issue by something shiny... or racist... even i dont think people are so easily lead....
Yes a great movie about the psychology of war and the lies we are told while growing up . But the movie was not marketed properly . I do not know what they spend the 100 million dollars on in this movie.
Abeed, yeah I have to agree, definitely not marketed. I think it was due to the gay protests over the author's Mormon beliefs. The movie was not anti-gay, so I think the attacks were misguided (and I'm an atheist).
I feel you. It especially hurts that I can't just jump into the second book of the series for fear of things I might have missed in the first book. I can't be sure how much the book differs from the movie. 😩
@@ren.8137 not really. It doesn’t differ at all but you miss allot out to to the insane condensation of the book. Imo the book is really good and your better of reading it
@@xxbomxx, I've read the books and the adaptation is not a canon movie, but it doesn't means that it is a bad movie, contrarily it is an awesome adaptation.
No no no, it'd be a shame to cover the rest of the books the way they did that movie. Part of me is glad because the story after is awesome and connected but different to Enders Game. Had they tried to make sequels I can't imagine how bad they would be. I don't want another Eragon.
Most of my "intellectual" acquaintances who are sci-fi fans opted out of seeing this movie, and some who did may have torrented it illegally just so they didn't "vote" with their money -- they encouraged me to do the same but I wasn't interested at the time. I watched it on Blu-Ray at a friends house later, and it was a solid film, even if it doesn't live up to the books. It's too bad it didn't get its sequels.
I heard about it then, but didn't care. I don't agree politically/socially/morally with most actors, but can still enjoy their work. Same goes for a talented author or director.
Yours Truly Boy did you miss the point of the end! The Formics were unable to understand that we are not a telepathically linked hive species, so they attacked us twice. They finally understood by invading Ender’s mind and seeing that they made a mistake. Ender was able to understand the entire situation after he eradicated them and saw they were not an evil enemy that deserved the extermination of their species.
morelli tech r u high? The lord of the rings, Star Wars, the exorcist, IT, kingsman they r amazing films this film was just boring badly written crap and I would like to add if it was called one of the worst films of the year and it completely bombed how can it be an amazing film?
Saints row 4 life because people's opinions differ as do their tastes. The movies you mentioned ARE fantastic...so is Ender's Game. Believing in Old School Morality, may be unpopular to an extent, but so what? Orson Scott Card wrote some brilliant books, including EGame.
That was my favorite movie of all time I really want a sequel. When I grow up maybe I could put together a new cast and create my own studio and try to do a sequel but that probably won't happen. But I can hope!
It was a good movie, but the material was just not suitable for a blockbuster. Slow-paced movies, especially in the sci-fi genre, demand small budgets. If they made a sequel, I would totally watch it.
Hmm... Do you think the Ender series would work better as a Netflix series than as a series of movies, possibly? As a series, there would be more time to develop the characters and situation and be less likely to leave out important elements like Ender's older brother Peter, IMHO. It was definitely more of a "makes you think" movie than a summer blockbuster, that's for sure.
@@kitirena_koneko woulda been better on HBO or showtime, you need an en entire season to set the baseline for such a complex story for it to really takeoff, and it needed to be rated R too...
@@FranklinSninsky I don't recall it being rated R so much as PG-13 because of the shower fight and a few situations that would definitely be too intense for little kids. I suggested Netflix because more people would watch it (in theory); wasn't Game of Thrones on Netflix? I know that series DEFINITELY was not for little kids, even though I've never watched it (and couldn't get into the books) myself...
Forgot to mention that the movie was miscast, the writers made way to many story changes, and key plot point were either changed or omitted. All in, the movie was a very poor representation of the book.
It may have failed for the reason that they listed. However I can think of a couple of more reasons, like they didn't follow the damn book. Ender was supposed to be like 8 years old, not a teenager. And where was his brother and sister? Part of Ender's charm is that he was a Third. A third child born in a world where families was limited to two children.
Yeah, reducing their roles really transforms the overall tone of the story to more of an action film, which was probably quite deliberate, but it also sorta cripples some of the plot threads that lead to the sequels.
They also didn't say a single thing about Valentine's and Peter's schemes on Earth, and THAT made impossible to continue the Shadow saga, and even the following series ¿3000? years in the future (can remember exactly).
I'm now reading the book for the fourth time, after watching the move for the third time. I have to say that the movie is great...of course most of the book is the inner dialogue of Ender. They also cut a ton of scenes out. That didn't make the movie any worse. The cinematic universe is beautiful. The visualizations of command school are of epic proportions. The only way the movie falls short is that a lot of information is spoon-fed to the audience to get to the point. Having read the book, I appreciate the movie a lot more.
It really should have, would have allowed them more freedom with the story rather than having to rush every scene because there's to much in terms of world building to fully explore in one movie
The weekend this movie opened the demographic was between ages 21-28 because it was required reading in high school and we all spent years waiting for a movie adaptation. The story in the book takes place over almost a decade, the story in the movie takes place over a month. The movie bombed because the core details of the book were taken for granted and the studio horrifically underestimated who it's true fans were. Smart people who read books! Enders true game was that he made people play his game, he didn't play theirs. Never have I been so disappointed in a movie.
The makers chickened out of making the film as uncompromising as the novel when it comes to certain key character moments e.g. the shower fight scene. In the film there's always an excuse for Ender's enemies dying when really he just outright killed them. Ender was very calculating and had no hesitation to kill if necessary. The studio went for safe and easy, rather than using the darker side of Ender's character. Its touched on, but generally avoided. It would have given the film a dark edge that others just don't. For anyone that hasn't read the novel, what the studio did was weaken the character in the same way that George Lucas did when Han no longer shot first. The film version of Ender's Game is decent but not great. It could have been great with less accountants playing safe with the material.
The book also had excuses. Ender didn't know he for sure he killed them until the court proceedings after the war. He was after permanent disablement, not murder, but the problem was he didn't have fine enough control to cause one over the other.
Yeah it's the spiderman bullshit made for kinds, the hero doesn't want to kill anyone. I enjoyed the movie for the production value and the idea of the story but there is a lot to be desired from it. Could've been a masterpiece but instead is just an enjoyable movie that is somewhat frustrating to watch.
Too many stars, you could have saved money and cut Kingsley and Davis. Both did great jobs, and I'm sure some people came to see the movie just because of them, but I dont think they brought enough people in for the price they were paid.
You're right--Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett from the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy) would have been better and much more affordable, now that I think of it.
I did read the books and do understand that they weren’t really close to them but I did like the movie a lot and was really hoping that we would’ve got a sequel. (For those of you that don’t know, Ender was 6 years old in the book)
I never heard of this movie back then, until recently it popped up on my Netflix.. and as I started watching it, I began to question what the hell was young adult bombarded with during 2013 and look where are our society now heading to during this pandemic when those young adults are now adults. This movie is thoughtful, not a mere bang-bang sci-fi action movies. There should have been more of this kind back then, as well as nowadays.
No movie has ever disappointed me so much then this one. It not only skipped over major themes, but events as well. My thought was they should've split it into 2 movies, ending at the end of BS and the sequel is CS and the invasion.
There were two boycotts. 1) the one you mention and 2) the one by die hard fans of the books, whom from the beginning attacked the movie as being barely faithful to the book. From the moment they knew that a teenager (Butterfield) would play Ender at all stages (in the book, Ender is a young boy at the beginning), the boycotting started and never yielded.
I loved this movie it had very mature themes like humans being the bad guys and genocide and a kid having to deal and process all of this its a shame there wasnt more i wish they explored deeper into it
Worked well for Games of Thrones until Season 6, that go off the rails, because most of the HBO TV Shows always have a great beginning, a very good middle, but a mediocre ending, because the suits are more concern in Games of Thrones case in doing fanservices and milking the Jon Snow fans than actually doing a good story.
I only had 2 issues going in, 1 i had recently read the book like 6 months before the movie was announced. 2 none of the cast looked like what I envisioned as well as tech looked way different than i had pictured, basically my mind built a totally different world than what was on screen. so i personally couldn't get past my 2 issues so i passed on it but I do need to get back to reading the series, Ender's Game and Speaker for The Dead are really good books.
the main reason they did not do so well on the box office was because of their marketing. I have never seen any advertisements about this film back in 2013
one of the movies where i thought Harrison Ford was miscast. He was phoning it in and clearly there for a paycheck. Don't get me wrong his name probably provided alot of draw but he clearly cared nothing about the film he was in. I actually really liked Viola Davis though. And ben kingsley was just okay which is shocking from him because he usually gives great performances. This would have been much better as a TV series instead of a movie or a mini series.
what would have been next? speaker of the dead? ender in exile? ender's shadow? they were saying the cast was all ther so i'm guessing not speaker for the dead since ender and valantine are the only people from yhe original in that and they're 30 (3000) years older
I think one of the big reasons why it flopped is they didn't do that much marketing. When I went to the theater to watch it, it was the first I heard about it and just gave it a chance since I was into Scifi. I think it would have fared better if marketed better (i.e. trailer releases, tv show appearances, etc.).
Orson Scott Cards novels have always been my favorite, and they are certainly *not* young adult novels. They're fairly complex and in depth, and explore a lot of material that most young adults would fail to grasp. They're not necessarily profound, but they certainly have more substance than those god awful YA novels. Card is a brilliant writer, regardless of his political views. This movie was...disappointing, for fans of the novels. I'm glad they didn't make another one, because they were forced to skim over a lot of important materials from the novels.
Crazy! I was blown away by this one - I came in with little expectations and was thinking mediocre sci- fi romp - mostly young cast with the tribute former big budget casting of HF - but at the end was emotionally invested and wanting more, just another shelf addition for the cultist collectors to go with all the others...bitter sweet in a way~
I always thought Enders Game was an extraordinary series. It remains my favorite series even after years of re-reading and expanding my horizions to other series. I wish the series could be explored more, and I always thought it would do better as a tv show, but I suppose I'll stick to the pages
The sequels they are referring to are not the actual sequels in Enders story. Those would be Speaker ForThe Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind. None of those would have had main characters other than Ender and his sister Valentine from the first movie. The Shadow series was a later addition, but not the direct sequels.
The movie didn't exactly stick with the source material I think if they had they might not have gotten as much money its not a young adult book its meant for adults and I wouldn't recommend anyone younger than 17 reading enders game and 21 for enders shadow its got kids like 6 to 8 year olds training like marines and enders shadow was even more graphic like kid prostitutes and children killing each other but the books are definitely good but can be a little hard to read due to certain subject material I wish they did it as a TV series instead of the lame ass movie we got
For me this was a movie I just happen to have free time and went and saw it with no expectations. I did see it a trailer for but still I had no idea about what the movie was supposed to be. Ended up loving it. Didn't realize it was going to be I mostly all Child cast but that didn't take away from the movie at all. Super super bummed there's no sequel. The movie was epic
Orson Scott Card has no issue with homosexuality existing. He simply does not believe in same sex marriage. I completely disagree with him there, but it does NOT make him homophobic.
I know a few gay guys who are against gay marriage. I don't believe that makes someone homophobic. Not everyone views marriage as a human right or even a good thing.
errr, YES. It does. it is homophobic to deny homosexuals the same rights as heterosexuals, or impose his own religious beliefs onto them with no regard to their well-being and only for his own petty morality. It is the very definition of homophobia.
they are against homosexuals right to choose? that's homophobic. they should keep their hands off homosexuals right to choose how they live their lives.
People are willing to accept new young adult franchises...but not crappy ones...the mentioned failures help to solidify the mentality that people will not support new franchises & also so many crappy franchises will kill the good ones like Enders Game.
The movie was amazing. It had nothing to do with homophobia concerns. I think Looper is on point with the Young Adult films getting played out. I saw the trailer and I thought it was another Hunger Games rip off. Also many of those who read the books didn't like it.
i had no idea of the whole controversy, the movie was great, the book was so much deeper though, it delves so damn deep into the psychology of Ender's mind, I can tell they had a very hard time translating that to the screen, also add the fact that Ender spends a lot longer than they seem to portray in the movie at the academy, and he does A LOT in there, also, in the book, Ender is SO much younger. and OMG the entire arch of his sister and his brother are INSANELY good. in the movie, this is completly ignored.
Petra: What are we aiming for? Ender: The planet. Petra: What? Ender: If we destroy the planet, we destroy the queens. Game over. Best scene in the movie. Epic.
I strongly feel that the (ENDER’S GAME) stories, should be made into a show series. Be it a computer-animated show series, or a live-action show series.
Bean was handled well. Kind of. He would've done a credible job in Ender's Shadow had they gone that route; however, the changes they made to the story kind of killed that anyway.
The BIIGGEST problem I have seen with YA adaptations is the major changes made from Book to Movies, my family loved the "Beautiful Creatures" book and hated the movie same with a few others. When movies are based on books, and the books have a large following if the story and characters change too much the fans of the franchise they took the stories from refuse to watch the sequels that's why our family watched Divergent in theaters and waited for the others to hit video. Ender's Game was a great movie, but because I read the books I was a little disappointed with the ending and a few other changes made.
Do you know what the sequel is? Let me give you one plot detail. Short hobbit like people that have a tendency to eviscerate you then toss the remains into a hole and top it with a new tree. Things get weirder from there.
diGritz1 Wow. You didn't understand that book at all. Plus he said that the second movie would be based on "Ender's Shadow." And if they made another, I can virtually guarantee it would be based on "Ender in Exile."
They didn't toss the remains in a hole...? Did you read the book? They did eviscerate people, then they arranged their organs around them and left them there out in the open. The tree only grew on the piggies. The tree wasn't planted by the piggies that killed, it grew inside the dead piggie.
Regardless of the specifics, a lot of the books following after Ender's Game were full of things that couldn't easily be put into film, including violence, difficult to understand extradimensional science, and heavy, complicated philosophical issues.
Card is not opposed to homosexuality.... he is opposed to same-sex marriage. While is may **seem** like a minor distinction, it technically really isn't. *I don't agree with him,* but I think it is important that if we are having this discussion, it be based on the actual facts.
Why did the box office bomb? Gee I don't know; stocks were low, no one had money, and just about the entire generation that read the book in school was over-seas in the military.
I loved it! I've got all the books. Not crazy about the Shadow (Bean) stories. Would rather see Ender in Flight or Speaker for the Dead, but it would be too hard to do it justice in a single movie.
I loved the movie and I think they did an amazing job recreating the story and environment of the story. The battle school looked just like how I pictured it in my mind when I first read the book in 1991 when I was in grade school. I own 4 books from the series and loved them all (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Ender's Shadow (is the alternate retelling of Ender's game, don't know why they said it backwards as if Bean's story was first and not Ender's) and Shadow of the Hegemon (I was halfway through the book after buying it the same day before thinking I should red the others before starting it XD). If they made a tv series for Ender's series. They should have younger characters play them. I loved Asa playing Ender. I have no complaints about him playing the character. But I do have one complaint for the characters. And that was the ages. Ender was between 5-7 years old. I admit kids that age would not have been able to play clomplex characters. But what about Ender's family. His brother Peter had a bigger role in the book and was very cruel to him. While his sister was more compassionate/emphatic towards him. And they never really touched why Ender was picked on and always called 'Third' by the bullies and Peter.
5-7 year old kids would be an issue as far as complex performances but they certainly could have cast 10ish year olds. Asa was about 14-15 when he shot the film making him age out quick had they done sequels. We have seen plenty of great preteen actors in the past. Jacob Trembley from the movie Room most recently at age 9 (He won a Peoples Choice Award) and in previous years Haley Joel Osment at age 10 in the Sixth Sense and Dan Radcliffe at age 11 in Harry Potter. Elijah Wood was one the best young actors in the 90's starting at age 9.
Love nah its okay, his accent gets a bit annoying after a little bit. Only his for some reason, other people's don't really bother me at all and I been around all types of people from the world as well as traveled. Something about this guy, maybe he should slow it down lol
I read the book first then watched the movie and I personally loved watching a movie about a book I loved. I think that it’s a shame there won’t be a sequel because it would have been amazing.
I'm sorry, but this is utter nonsense. 'Speaker for the Dead' and the other books in the Ender Saga have nothing to do with 'Ender's Game'. The story itself is set thousands of years after 'Ender' and the only real connexion is the main character himself, who in the second book is a fully grown adult in his mid-forties. None of the cast, let alone the sets, could have been reused. 'Speaker for the Dead' is in fact an excellent read and a strong piece of science fiction, but it's a work of theological psychotherapy. It's not a military "young adult' book like 'Ender'.
I can't recall it being released in Australia. If it was, it had little if any publicity to encourage an audience. ENDERS GAME has prompted me to view most of the other movies starring ASA BUTTERFIELD, most of which I now have on DVD.
I watched it again recently and really loved it second time around. Excellent film and book. It's not a youth thing though in my book, but totally solid space opera. Would make a great to show. The mistake is treating it as a kids book. It's not.
The Shadow series books were based off of Bean’s character and not Ender. The first one was concurrent with Ender’s Game, but from Bean’s perspective. The next Ender book, Speaker for the Dead (phenomenal book) took place when Ender was in his 40s or 50s and many more years later, thanks to space travel.
It had one of the greatest movie plot twists of cinematic history. Or at least the story of it did cause its a book adaptation but i didnt read the book
Aged out? makes it better, what if ender placed the egg in some planet he found and then go back to earth and spend some years later he goes to check back or the entire colony comes back for water again and this time Ender fights with the humans or stops them from massacaring the colony.
After having read all the books, I can honestly say that Ender's Shadow wouldn't have done well with the material that Ender's game put into the movie. Xenoside may have, but ultimately the books just wouldn't translate to film well at all. Another big reason the films didn't continue was that Orson Scott Card (The Author) didn't want them to. Every studio that talked about filming wanted complete control over creative rights, and all of them wanted to focus the stories on a more romantic aspect, which in my opinion, doesn't work out well with most of the characters in the book being aged between 5-14. Card ultimately caved in a bit and allowed filming of Ender's game on the condition that it not be turned into a romantic thriller. (Ender was 6 when he went to battleschool, and the studios wanted his love interest to be Petra [at best estimates between ages 10-14] who in the shadow series falls for bean {much later} who at the time of Ender's game was 5) The books did excellent as a sci-fi novel, but sci-fi movies weren't selling at the time, Romantic-Thrillers were, and Ender''s game couldn't have been filmed as such.
A remake with different actors would probably be the best option, or like you said, TV series. A TV series can jam pack information from the books, but movies would have to cut most out.
I absolutely LOVED this film, one of the very few movies I have seen where I didn't want anything to be different, also one of the few movies I have ever rewatched.
Asa was an awesome actor for this franchise and all we know that it is cancelled, i hope some producer will announce a reboot of this movie in the next years.
OSC referred to himself as a "happy practicing Mormon" and led a delightfully enlightening "Secular Humanist Revival" at a convention a long while back. His personal views weren't an issue with this movie's level of suckage. However, to call it the worst SF movie ever is an insult to *JUPITER ACSENDING,* the true holder of that title.
Hey Looper, I actually read the Ender’s Game novels. The sequels wouldn’t have been cancelled if the movie made from the novel had not left out the important fact that the insectoids had attacked Earth, not one but twice already. That means Earth’s decision was based on a clearly intelligent conclusion that the insectoids were going to flatten Earth for a third a genocidal last time. It was them leaving the table, or the Human Race. Their elimination, as written in the novel, was the correct decision. That got left out, while Ender’s conscience became the most important to the director. An unforgivably bad judgement. Ender rightly had ethical and romantic problems with being tricked into committing genocide, but the decision itself was the right one. Can’t make a sequel with that problem with continuity from the novel.
Honestly if they made a second movie I think because it brought the story on the radar of movie goers that hadn’t read the book. Now that it has an even larger fan base I think it would be a much bigger success
What other would-be sequels would you like to hear about next?
Looper why do you guys not use this music more often ???
The Inheritance Cycle (Eragon)
Looper "I'm number four"
King Arthur
Eragon :(
To summarize why there won't be a sequel: the first one didn't make enough money. The end. Saved you 5 minutes.
Austin Vawter Thanks
Damn, I clicked in the video only so I can write this without even watching the video.
Thanks bro
No the creator said that he didn't want the violence to be adapted from speaker of the dead and if you read it speaker of the dead's mature and realistic violent political themes speak for itself and check Wikipedia because the author has said the violence is something he would not be able to film. If the author is personally asking for a sequel not to be made you can tell that the creator maybe horrified with the violence.
i remeber no anti guy theme in this flim, what sane reason would people boy-cot it for... irelevent, unconected political views of a member of its cast or crew...
and if your awnser is yes, becuase you would in a way be supporting the person with anti gay views... then while your boy-coting this film ,please remember to refuse to pay your taxes to the goverment, becuase there are some employes that are anti-gay working in areas of the goverment on every level, and you wouldint want to support those people right... im sure when your locked up youll feel very wise for holding to your iratinal views, and will be remembered not as an idiot but a martir... becuase otherwise... youd be a hipocrite... please dont pretend its different becuase its the goverment... you wouldint want to be known to cowordly tolerat the injustace of an opresive goverment forcing people to pay taxes to support anti-gay simpathizors right becuase we cant seperate politics from any facet of life... no it must be forced where it does not mater, like into art, music, and games... becuase only the people with the right politics should be allowed to create... anything... we wouldint want to let any kind of discorse open on anything... beter to not risk sheep like hourds mindlessly shoffuling to the wrong side on an issue by something shiny... or racist... even i dont think people are so easily lead....
I liked the movie. It was surprisingly good as compared to other child-centered movies.
except that it got the main characters other than Graph and MAzer Rackham COMEPLETELY WRONG..dont believe me, read the damn books
Yes a great movie about the psychology of war and the lies we are told while growing up . But the movie was not marketed properly . I do not know what they spend the 100 million dollars on in this movie.
Abeed, yeah I have to agree, definitely not marketed. I think it was due to the gay protests over the author's Mormon beliefs. The movie was not anti-gay, so I think the attacks were misguided (and I'm an atheist).
Enzo Matrix not really
Jaden Bass which part
Damn I really liked this movie too... now I have to read the books
I feel you. It especially hurts that I can't just jump into the second book of the series for fear of things I might have missed in the first book. I can't be sure how much the book differs from the movie. 😩
@@xiev-jinchau1078 I read it like 5 times. The movie follows the book very well so moving on to book 2 would be fine.
@@ren.8137 not really. It doesn’t differ at all but you miss allot out to to the insane condensation of the book. Imo the book is really good and your better of reading it
@@isaacthangaraj3278 it gives alot of insight on Ender himself and you end up liking him more from the books, but it wouldnt be 100% necessary.
@@ren.8137 no the movie does NOT follow the book well, they dont even get ender right
THe first reason listed is the only real reason. It's money, it's always money.
obviously it is the money but the other reason (and that it is awful compared to the book) is the reasons for the luck of money
@@xxbomxx, I've read the books and the adaptation is not a canon movie, but it doesn't means that it is a bad movie, contrarily it is an awesome adaptation.
how overly simple of you,
you forget the opium of the elite...
politics.
Plus the cast/main actors like Petra are kinda like just so so... they don’t really fit the role/character they are plying from the book
I really liked Ender's Game. It's a damn shame it's cancelled.
No no no, it'd be a shame to cover the rest of the books the way they did that movie. Part of me is glad because the story after is awesome and connected but different to Enders Game. Had they tried to make sequels I can't imagine how bad they would be. I don't want another Eragon.
@@swedsteve93 be quiet
Read the books. Trust me, they are absolutely phenomenal. Then read the Bean series. And after that, you can try the Harmony series.
@@aidanmckuen1252 read books
@@swedsteve93 shh we don’t talk about that movie.
Btw, check the stores bc we finally got another book in the inheritance cycle “Murtagh”.
I never heard about the boycott until now
Danielle Vaughn same
Danielle Vaughn the author didnt want to adapt speaker of the dead because of violent stuff he writed he admited that
Most of my "intellectual" acquaintances who are sci-fi fans opted out of seeing this movie, and some who did may have torrented it illegally just so they didn't "vote" with their money -- they encouraged me to do the same but I wasn't interested at the time. I watched it on Blu-Ray at a friends house later, and it was a solid film, even if it doesn't live up to the books. It's too bad it didn't get its sequels.
I remember hearing about it multiple places. It wasn't talked about as a "boycott " exactly it was more subtle pressure than that
I heard about it then, but didn't care. I don't agree politically/socially/morally with most actors, but can still enjoy their work. Same goes for a talented author or director.
I freaking loved that movie 😦
imkindahungry04364 plz tell me your kidding I mean there's nothing to love about it at all
Yours Truly Boy did you miss the point of the end! The Formics were unable to understand that we are not a telepathically linked hive species, so they attacked us twice. They finally understood by invading Ender’s mind and seeing that they made a mistake. Ender was able to understand the entire situation after he eradicated them and saw they were not an evil enemy that deserved the extermination of their species.
Yours Truly... Dude, you seriously have the grammar of a 5th grader. That's embarrassing.
kokot pojebany I might be mentally challenged. Depends on who you ask ¯\_(ツ)_/ ¯
After reading the book I hated the movie. They got so much wrong. But a book like Ender's Game is impossible to squeeze into 2 hours.
A: Because Hollyood is WAY too dumb to adapt Speaker for the Dead. A masterpiece of literature is beyond adaptation.
Tell me about it... That was like the best book in that series I believe
That's the correct Book for a second film and not the shadow Series. 👍🏻
If they completelly missed Ender's Game, i'm really happy they don't try to do Speaker, because they'd massacre the hell out of it.
They'd probably write the piggies as comic relief.
@@rabidmonk5Nah, they'd consider piggy a slur and have pequenino protests
But it was an amazing film.
morelli tech r u high? The lord of the rings, Star Wars, the exorcist, IT, kingsman they r amazing films this film was just boring badly written crap and I would like to add if it was called one of the worst films of the year and it completely bombed how can it be an amazing film?
It is an amazing film. It's really shame that everything has to spin around the money.
RaDnWave OMG no it isn't the film is bad it had nothing good about it whatsoever
Saints row 4 life because people's opinions differ as do their tastes. The movies you mentioned ARE fantastic...so is Ender's Game. Believing in Old School Morality, may be unpopular to an extent, but so what? Orson Scott Card wrote some brilliant books, including EGame.
Eh it was kind of bad
That was my favorite movie of all time I really want a sequel. When I grow up maybe I could put together a new cast and create my own studio and try to do a sequel but that probably won't happen. But I can hope!
You should do it. Never give up a dream. I would love to see a second 1.
So how is it going
@@Cheese-ey6tq I'm working on it
I will support you!!
I am with you
I had really low expectations for Ender's Game, but ended up loving it! I wish they had continued it. :-(
It was a good movie, but the material was just not suitable for a blockbuster. Slow-paced movies, especially in the sci-fi genre, demand small budgets.
If they made a sequel, I would totally watch it.
Hmm... Do you think the Ender series would work better as a Netflix series than as a series of movies, possibly? As a series, there would be more time to develop the characters and situation and be less likely to leave out important elements like Ender's older brother Peter, IMHO. It was definitely more of a "makes you think" movie than a summer blockbuster, that's for sure.
@@kitirena_koneko woulda been better on HBO or showtime, you need an en entire season to set the baseline for such a complex story for it to really takeoff, and it needed to be rated R too...
@@FranklinSninsky I don't recall it being rated R so much as PG-13 because of the shower fight and a few situations that would definitely be too intense for little kids. I suggested Netflix because more people would watch it (in theory); wasn't Game of Thrones on Netflix? I know that series DEFINITELY was not for little kids, even though I've never watched it (and couldn't get into the books) myself...
@@kitirena_koneko Yes, a miniseries would work. Plus adapt parts of Ender's Shadow, the Shadow sequels, and maybe Ender in Exile.
Forgot to mention that the movie was miscast, the writers made way to many story changes, and key plot point were either changed or omitted. All in, the movie was a very poor representation of the book.
I who have never read enders game. It was a good movie if u look at it like an independent film
Navneet Singh you should read the books because it's good, personally the last 2 books feel a little strange but it's still good
Movie was FAR better than the hokey book.
TBH, they made it more actionable and increased pacing. I thought it did well. And I'm a major fan of the series.
Book does not equal movie.
It may have failed for the reason that they listed. However I can think of a couple of more reasons, like they didn't follow the damn book. Ender was supposed to be like 8 years old, not a teenager. And where was his brother and sister? Part of Ender's charm is that he was a Third. A third child born in a world where families was limited to two children.
And Bean was even younger than Ender, he was six years old with a birth defect that affected his growth.
Peter and Valentine were there physically, but didn't have as big an effect on Ender as they should have, which damages Ender as a character.
Yeah, reducing their roles really transforms the overall tone of the story to more of an action film, which was probably quite deliberate, but it also sorta cripples some of the plot threads that lead to the sequels.
They also didn't say a single thing about Valentine's and Peter's schemes on Earth, and THAT made impossible to continue the Shadow saga, and even the following series ¿3000? years in the future (can remember exactly).
I am totally fine with Ender being much older. I am glad they chose not to ruin the movie with an eight year old actor.
I actually liked this film. I was looking forward for a sequel. But it hurts knowing it won't have a sequel
was a great movie actually
I'm now reading the book for the fourth time, after watching the move for the third time. I have to say that the movie is great...of course most of the book is the inner dialogue of Ender. They also cut a ton of scenes out. That didn't make the movie any worse. The cinematic universe is beautiful. The visualizations of command school are of epic proportions. The only way the movie falls short is that a lot of information is spoon-fed to the audience to get to the point. Having read the book, I appreciate the movie a lot more.
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Would love to see a HBO style TV series of The Speaker for the Dead. Great book that doesn't necessarily need the Ender's Game back story to work.
Z T ditto, but it’s going to be tough, complex story, very emotional, walking a tight rope so to speak...
No. What we need is an HBO show of an Octavia Butler book. She is 243353 times a better writer than Orson Scott Card. And not a damn bigot
This read my mind
They would have woked it to death
I enjoyed the movie. I was looking forward to seeing the sequel.
Its too bad. I would have liked to see Ender's Shadow. Bean was my favorite character from the series; I wish he had his due.
The whole movie felt like it should have been a series.
It really should have, would have allowed them more freedom with the story rather than having to rush every scene because there's to much in terms of world building to fully explore in one movie
Is it just me or is just about everyone's views down on CZcams this week?
Malevolent Elephant It's because CZcams added a new policy that makes it so everyone below 18 can't watch CZcams videos that aren't child friendly
Jaden Stewart oh wow I didn’t know that!
Jaden Stewart lol really? That's sad for creators
"recently"
Age restriction has been around for years, you've probably just seen it now.
scrambler 1100
The weekend this movie opened the demographic was between ages 21-28 because it was required reading in high school and we all spent years waiting for a movie adaptation. The story in the book takes place over almost a decade, the story in the movie takes place over a month. The movie bombed because the core details of the book were taken for granted and the studio horrifically underestimated who it's true fans were. Smart people who read books! Enders true game was that he made people play his game, he didn't play theirs. Never have I been so disappointed in a movie.
The makers chickened out of making the film as uncompromising as the novel when it comes to certain key character moments e.g. the shower fight scene. In the film there's always an excuse for Ender's enemies dying when really he just outright killed them. Ender was very calculating and had no hesitation to kill if necessary. The studio went for safe and easy, rather than using the darker side of Ender's character. Its touched on, but generally avoided. It would have given the film a dark edge that others just don't. For anyone that hasn't read the novel, what the studio did was weaken the character in the same way that George Lucas did when Han no longer shot first. The film version of Ender's Game is decent but not great. It could have been great with less accountants playing safe with the material.
The book also had excuses. Ender didn't know he for sure he killed them until the court proceedings after the war. He was after permanent disablement, not murder, but the problem was he didn't have fine enough control to cause one over the other.
Yeah it's the spiderman bullshit made for kinds, the hero doesn't want to kill anyone. I enjoyed the movie for the production value and the idea of the story but there is a lot to be desired from it. Could've been a masterpiece but instead is just an enjoyable movie that is somewhat frustrating to watch.
Too many stars, you could have saved money and cut Kingsley and Davis. Both did great jobs, and I'm sure some people came to see the movie just because of them, but I dont think they brought enough people in for the price they were paid.
Davis sure get rid of her but Kingsley was fantastic
You're right--Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett from the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy) would have been better and much more affordable, now that I think of it.
I did read the books and do understand that they weren’t really close to them but I did like the movie a lot and was really hoping that we would’ve got a sequel. (For those of you that don’t know, Ender was 6 years old in the book)
I never heard of this movie back then, until recently it popped up on my Netflix.. and as I started watching it, I began to question what the hell was young adult bombarded with during 2013 and look where are our society now heading to during this pandemic when those young adults are now adults.
This movie is thoughtful, not a mere bang-bang sci-fi action movies. There should have been more of this kind back then, as well as nowadays.
No movie has ever disappointed me so much then this one. It not only skipped over major themes, but events as well.
My thought was they should've split it into 2 movies, ending at the end of BS and the sequel is CS and the invasion.
The second one should have been called
Enders second Game or something 🙂
Enders Game:The Next Level
There were two boycotts. 1) the one you mention and 2) the one by die hard fans of the books, whom from the beginning attacked the movie as being barely faithful to the book. From the moment they knew that a teenager (Butterfield) would play Ender at all stages (in the book, Ender is a young boy at the beginning), the boycotting started and never yielded.
I think it needs to be redone as a show, properly following the book practically word for word.
It was a marvelous movie, story wise and characters were great too.
I loved this movie it had very mature themes like humans being the bad guys and genocide and a kid having to deal and process all of this its a shame there wasnt more i wish they explored deeper into it
Worked well for Games of Thrones until Season 6, that go off the rails, because most of the HBO TV Shows always have a great beginning, a very good middle, but a mediocre ending, because the suits are more concern in Games of Thrones case in doing fanservices and milking the Jon Snow fans than actually doing a good story.
I only had 2 issues going in, 1 i had recently read the book like 6 months before the movie was announced. 2 none of the cast looked like what I envisioned as well as tech looked way different than i had pictured, basically my mind built a totally different world than what was on screen.
so i personally couldn't get past my 2 issues so i passed on it but I do need to get back to reading the series, Ender's Game and Speaker for The Dead are really good books.
the main reason they did not do so well on the box office was because of their marketing. I have never seen any advertisements about this film back in 2013
one of the movies where i thought Harrison Ford was miscast. He was phoning it in and clearly there for a paycheck. Don't get me wrong his name probably provided alot of draw but he clearly cared nothing about the film he was in. I actually really liked Viola Davis though. And ben kingsley was just okay which is shocking from him because he usually gives great performances. This would have been much better as a TV series instead of a movie or a mini series.
what would have been next? speaker of the dead? ender in exile? ender's shadow? they were saying the cast was all ther so i'm guessing not speaker for the dead since ender and valantine are the only people from yhe original in that and they're 30 (3000) years older
loved ender's game, one of my 10 ten
I loved the book and would have loved to seen a sequel. The second story was so much better than the first, which is saying something.
Loved the ending twist!
I think one of the big reasons why it flopped is they didn't do that much marketing. When I went to the theater to watch it, it was the first I heard about it and just gave it a chance since I was into Scifi. I think it would have fared better if marketed better (i.e. trailer releases, tv show appearances, etc.).
Orson Scott Cards novels have always been my favorite, and they are certainly *not* young adult novels. They're fairly complex and in depth, and explore a lot of material that most young adults would fail to grasp. They're not necessarily profound, but they certainly have more substance than those god awful YA novels. Card is a brilliant writer, regardless of his political views. This movie was...disappointing, for fans of the novels. I'm glad they didn't make another one, because they were forced to skim over a lot of important materials from the novels.
I think a lot of adults fail to grasp it too.
Crazy! I was blown away by this one - I came in with little expectations and was thinking mediocre sci- fi romp - mostly young cast with the tribute former big budget casting of HF - but at the end was emotionally invested and wanting more, just another shelf addition for the cultist collectors to go with all the others...bitter sweet in a way~
I got sad when you said there won't have a sequel 😞
We need more of these classic adaptions. I could think of many.
-a (mostly) true-to-novel Starship Troopers
-The Forever War
-Old Man’s War
-Dorsai
I always thought Enders Game was an extraordinary series. It remains my favorite series even after years of re-reading and expanding my horizions to other series. I wish the series could be explored more, and I always thought it would do better as a tv show, but I suppose I'll stick to the pages
You should definitely read the First Formic War and the Second Formic War series if you haven't already.
The sequels they are referring to are not the actual sequels in Enders story. Those would be Speaker ForThe Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind. None of those would have had main characters other than Ender and his sister Valentine from the first movie. The Shadow series was a later addition, but not the direct sequels.
Didn't the Shadow series come out first then speaker
July 2019 I'm waiting
Disappointed readers the moment we saw Bean on the same launch shuttle as Ender.
The movie didn't exactly stick with the source material I think if they had they might not have gotten as much money its not a young adult book its meant for adults and I wouldn't recommend anyone younger than 17 reading enders game and 21 for enders shadow its got kids like 6 to 8 year olds training like marines and enders shadow was even more graphic like kid prostitutes and children killing each other but the books are definitely good but can be a little hard to read due to certain subject material I wish they did it as a TV series instead of the lame ass movie we got
I was 15 when I read the book. It was amazing. I read Ender's Shadow in 2016, it was crazy too.
Calm down my whole school read it there sophomore year movie was bland and boring but the book was really good best book we read (except mice and men)
John Mosley I read Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow at 13 and I was fine. The books are meant for teens.
The1andonlyAbber same
John Mosley The books are meant for anyone that can understand the meaning behind them.
For me this was a movie I just happen to have free time and went and saw it with no expectations. I did see it a trailer for but still I had no idea about what the movie was supposed to be. Ended up loving it. Didn't realize it was going to be I mostly all Child cast but that didn't take away from the movie at all. Super super bummed there's no sequel. The movie was epic
I thought it was a great movie! If a producer sees this, you can count on my money for a sequal.
Wow, I was actually excited to see a sequel for Enders Game. It was really good :(
Orson Scott Card has no issue with homosexuality existing. He simply does not believe in same sex marriage. I completely disagree with him there, but it does NOT make him homophobic.
FutureBerea Alumn I'm pretty sure he's actively against LGBT people having human rights, like marriage, so that's not quite true.
Read his comment again and then maybe think about what you said.
I know a few gay guys who are against gay marriage. I don't believe that makes someone homophobic. Not everyone views marriage as a human right or even a good thing.
errr, YES. It does. it is homophobic to deny homosexuals the same rights as heterosexuals, or impose his own religious beliefs onto them with no regard to their well-being and only for his own petty morality. It is the very definition of homophobia.
they are against homosexuals right to choose? that's homophobic. they should keep their hands off homosexuals right to choose how they live their lives.
People are willing to accept new young adult franchises...but not crappy ones...the mentioned failures help to solidify the mentality that people will not support new franchises & also so many crappy franchises will kill the good ones like Enders Game.
The movie was amazing. It had nothing to do with homophobia concerns. I think Looper is on point with the Young Adult films getting played out. I saw the trailer and I thought it was another Hunger Games rip off. Also many of those who read the books didn't like it.
jsagers2008 the movie boycott was real
Enders Game came out years before the Hunger Games.
I boycotted it. We're not all comfortable supporting bigotry.
i had no idea of the whole controversy, the movie was great, the book was so much deeper though, it delves so damn deep into the psychology of Ender's mind, I can tell they had a very hard time translating that to the screen, also add the fact that Ender spends a lot longer than they seem to portray in the movie at the academy, and he does A LOT in there, also, in the book, Ender is SO much younger. and OMG the entire arch of his sister and his brother are INSANELY good. in the movie, this is completly ignored.
Mark Basnight oh my someone has a different opinion that me, let me boycott and call them a bigot
Petra: What are we aiming for?
Ender: The planet.
Petra: What?
Ender: If we destroy the planet, we destroy the queens. Game over.
Best scene in the movie. Epic.
I strongly feel that the (ENDER’S GAME) stories, should be made into a show series.
Be it a computer-animated show series, or a live-action show series.
The movie was rushed and really boring. It couldn't capture the complex themes the book had.
SJ Duncan its always too do that and they also decided to lsave ender young which I personally didnt like
Yep.
And what about bean? My favorite character of the books
Bean was handled well. Kind of. He would've done a credible job in Ender's Shadow had they gone that route; however, the changes they made to the story kind of killed that anyway.
The book was boring
The BIIGGEST problem I have seen with YA adaptations is the major changes made from Book to Movies, my family loved the "Beautiful Creatures" book and hated the movie same with a few others. When movies are based on books, and the books have a large following if the story and characters change too much the fans of the franchise they took the stories from refuse to watch the sequels that's why our family watched Divergent in theaters and waited for the others to hit video. Ender's Game was a great movie, but because I read the books I was a little disappointed with the ending and a few other changes made.
Do you know what the sequel is? Let me give you one plot detail. Short hobbit like people that have a tendency to eviscerate you then toss the remains into a hole and top it with a new tree. Things get weirder from there.
diGritz1 Wow. You didn't understand that book at all.
Plus he said that the second movie would be based on "Ender's Shadow." And if they made another, I can virtually guarantee it would be based on "Ender in Exile."
Don't call my beloved pequenos hobbits :( I liked the idea of philotes, really cool philosophy around physics XD
They didn't toss the remains in a hole...? Did you read the book? They did eviscerate people, then they arranged their organs around them and left them there out in the open. The tree only grew on the piggies. The tree wasn't planted by the piggies that killed, it grew inside the dead piggie.
I read that book as a kid and I was so confused by that entire concept, glad I re-read it though
Regardless of the specifics, a lot of the books following after Ender's Game were full of things that couldn't easily be put into film, including violence, difficult to understand extradimensional science, and heavy, complicated philosophical issues.
Ender's Game is an excellent movie. The box office doesn't always know best...
Card is not opposed to homosexuality.... he is opposed to same-sex marriage.
While is may **seem** like a minor distinction, it technically really isn't.
*I don't agree with him,* but I think it is important that if we are having this discussion, it be based on the actual facts.
How is LGBT sexual abuse?
Yes, obviously the people who think he hates anyone who is homosexual haven't done any real research. Or have read many of his books.
@@iamthecandyman1307 I literally have. He is a homophobic ass wagon and so are many people on this post
Asa Butterfield is great. The battle scenes were out of this world. But the film adaptation as a whole still left something to be desired.
Why did the box office bomb? Gee I don't know; stocks were low, no one had money, and just about the entire generation that read the book in school was over-seas in the military.
I think Enders Game was highly underrated
Definitely disappointed for the last 7 years, I loved the movie and was very disappointed
I love that film. The biggest problem for me was I never saw a single ad for it anywhere. I only discovered its existence when it came out on Blu-ray.
Because it didn't make enough money, there saved you guy 4 minutes and 57 seconds
I loved it! I've got all the books. Not crazy about the Shadow (Bean) stories. Would rather see Ender in Flight or Speaker for the Dead, but it would be too hard to do it justice in a single movie.
Love the books and thought it was a fine adaptation.
enders game was my favourite book as a kid growing up. read it many many many times
This movie is an atrocity to the books. a complete, udder wreck to the great story that is contained within the written pages.
I loved the movie and I think they did an amazing job recreating the story and environment of the story. The battle school looked just like how I pictured it in my mind when I first read the book in 1991 when I was in grade school. I own 4 books from the series and loved them all (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Ender's Shadow (is the alternate retelling of Ender's game, don't know why they said it backwards as if Bean's story was first and not Ender's) and Shadow of the Hegemon (I was halfway through the book after buying it the same day before thinking I should red the others before starting it XD).
If they made a tv series for Ender's series. They should have younger characters play them. I loved Asa playing Ender. I have no complaints about him playing the character. But I do have one complaint for the characters. And that was the ages. Ender was between 5-7 years old. I admit kids that age would not have been able to play clomplex characters. But what about Ender's family. His brother Peter had a bigger role in the book and was very cruel to him. While his sister was more compassionate/emphatic towards him. And they never really touched why Ender was picked on and always called 'Third' by the bullies and Peter.
5-7 year old kids would be an issue as far as complex performances but they certainly could have cast 10ish year olds. Asa was about 14-15 when he shot the film making him age out quick had they done sequels. We have seen plenty of great preteen actors in the past. Jacob Trembley from the movie Room most recently at age 9 (He won a Peoples Choice Award) and in previous years Haley Joel Osment at age 10 in the Sixth Sense and Dan Radcliffe at age 11 in Harry Potter. Elijah Wood was one the best young actors in the 90's starting at age 9.
Who else LOVES looper
Harambe Revenge I was talking about both the channel and the movie lol
Banana Dork - Gaming NO I just clicked on it cause I hate them!
Situational Awareness! WTF that makes no sense why would u click on it
Banana Dork - Gaming sarcasm buddy!
Love nah its okay, his accent gets a bit annoying after a little bit. Only his for some reason, other people's don't really bother me at all and I been around all types of people from the world as well as traveled. Something about this guy, maybe he should slow it down lol
I read the book first then watched the movie and I personally loved watching a movie about a book I loved. I think that it’s a shame there won’t be a sequel because it would have been amazing.
I'm sorry, but this is utter nonsense. 'Speaker for the Dead' and the other books in the Ender Saga have nothing to do with 'Ender's Game'. The story itself is set thousands of years after 'Ender' and the only real connexion is the main character himself, who in the second book is a fully grown adult in his mid-forties. None of the cast, let alone the sets, could have been reused. 'Speaker for the Dead' is in fact an excellent read and a strong piece of science fiction, but it's a work of theological psychotherapy. It's not a military "young adult' book like 'Ender'.
They're talking about Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow which take place concurently
You should watch the video Oliver
I can't recall it being released in Australia. If it was, it had little if any publicity to encourage an audience. ENDERS GAME has prompted me to view most of the other movies starring ASA BUTTERFIELD, most of which I now have on DVD.
Don't blame them for not making a sequel the movie sucked beyond belief
Meanwhile some people in the comments are proclaiming their love for the film.
I watched it again recently and really loved it second time around. Excellent film and book. It's not a youth thing though in my book, but totally solid space opera. Would make a great to show. The mistake is treating it as a kids book. It's not.
Because the movie was an atrocity. There, mistery solved.
Pat P Nope it was good. Fuck books
The Shadow series books were based off of Bean’s character and not Ender. The first one was concurrent with Ender’s Game, but from Bean’s perspective. The next Ender book, Speaker for the Dead (phenomenal book) took place when Ender was in his 40s or 50s and many more years later, thanks to space travel.
We didn't see the sequel because the movie sucked!
How bout you tell me how it is bad please go ahead be specific
It had one of the greatest movie plot twists of cinematic history. Or at least the story of it did cause its a book adaptation but i didnt read the book
Aged out? makes it better, what if ender placed the egg in some planet he found and then go back to earth and spend some years later he goes to check back or the entire colony comes back for water again and this time Ender fights with the humans or stops them from massacaring the colony.
Cus it's bad lol
After having read all the books, I can honestly say that Ender's Shadow wouldn't have done well with the material that Ender's game put into the movie. Xenoside may have, but ultimately the books just wouldn't translate to film well at all.
Another big reason the films didn't continue was that Orson Scott Card (The Author) didn't want them to. Every studio that talked about filming wanted complete control over creative rights, and all of them wanted to focus the stories on a more romantic aspect, which in my opinion, doesn't work out well with most of the characters in the book being aged between 5-14. Card ultimately caved in a bit and allowed filming of Ender's game on the condition that it not be turned into a romantic thriller. (Ender was 6 when he went to battleschool, and the studios wanted his love interest to be Petra [at best estimates between ages 10-14] who in the shadow series falls for bean {much later} who at the time of Ender's game was 5)
The books did excellent as a sci-fi novel, but sci-fi movies weren't selling at the time, Romantic-Thrillers were, and Ender''s game couldn't have been filmed as such.
Cuz the movie was trash
I thought the movie was far too condensed and had pacing problems. I was very disappointed, because I wanted to like it very much.
A remake with different actors would probably be the best option, or like you said, TV series. A TV series can jam pack information from the books, but movies would have to cut most out.
I absolutely LOVED this film, one of the very few movies I have seen where I didn't want anything to be different, also one of the few movies I have ever rewatched.
This is such a shame. Enders Game is one of my top favorite modern day films and I wish for Christmas for a sequel :/
Crying shame, this movie was a masterpiece.
The soundtrack alone still gives me chills.
Asa was an awesome actor for this franchise and all we know that it is cancelled, i hope some producer will announce a reboot of this movie in the next years.
OSC referred to himself as a "happy practicing Mormon" and led a delightfully enlightening "Secular Humanist Revival" at a convention a long while back. His personal views weren't an issue with this movie's level of suckage.
However, to call it the worst SF movie ever is an insult to *JUPITER ACSENDING,* the true holder of that title.
I dunno about that, but Valerian will give Jupiter Ascending a good fight for that title.
Hey Looper, I actually read the Ender’s Game novels.
The sequels wouldn’t have been cancelled if the movie made from the novel had not left out the important fact that the insectoids had attacked Earth, not one but twice already. That means Earth’s decision was based on a clearly intelligent conclusion that the insectoids were going to flatten Earth for a third a genocidal last time.
It was them leaving the table, or the Human Race. Their elimination, as written in the novel, was the correct decision.
That got left out, while Ender’s conscience became the most important to the director. An unforgivably bad judgement. Ender rightly had ethical and romantic problems with being tricked into committing genocide, but the decision itself was the right one.
Can’t make a sequel with that problem with continuity from the novel.
I enjoyed the movie alot without reading the books. A little strange, but that's a big part of what made it special and interesting for me.
It also didn't help that it got released 1 week before a marvel movie which took over in marketing hype and booted it from IMAX quickly as well
Honestly if they made a second movie I think because it brought the story on the radar of movie goers that hadn’t read the book. Now that it has an even larger fan base I think it would be a much bigger success