Another try for an "Ender's Game" movie. Gavin Hood attached.

Here's a quote from Shadowrush.com

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The sci-fi novel “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card is being adapted as a live-action film, and Gavin Hood has rewritten a script, reports 24 Frames (Los Angeles Times Blog). Odd Lot Entertainment has picked up the movie based on the 1985 award-winning novel. Gavin Hood, who is most known as the director of the Oscar-winning “Tsotsi” and recently as the director of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”, has done a rewrite of Card’s most recent script and is developing the project as a director. Ender’s Game is the first book in a series. The novels spawned short stories and comic book adaptations. Here’s the book’s description: Quote: In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn’t make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender’s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender’s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. This is not the first time a movie adaptation of Ender’s Game was attempted. Back in 2003 a script was written and director Wolfgang Petersen was attached at one point, but it never materialized. There’s still some hurdles that will have to be overcome, since the story requires having to find young child actors who can take on the lead roles. The plot is also controversial with its violence and military angle featuring young children. No casting or production date has been announced yet.

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I'm still somewhat skeptical that this will push through, but I am wishing it does this time. Here's hoping something happens.

I'll believe it when I see a trailer. Then again...Duke Nukem Forever is comming.

Between this, and the Belgariad movie... I am irritated on the way holding pattern Hollywood has had...