So, the biggest news today came from a Sci-Fi Wire interview with Orson Scott Card: Wolfgang Peterson, the German director who brought you “Air Force One”, “Troy” and the upcoming “Poseidon“, says that with the adaptation of my all-time-favorite novel “Ender's Game” as a movie script reaching completion soon, “Ender's Game” might indeed be his next movie. Now yes, we heard Orson Scott Card talking about an “Ender's Game” movie for almost a decade, and the official movie website is as stale as a rock on the moon, but I have a gut feeling that this time, it's for real. Last time I went to an Orson Scott Card book signing, he was pretty serious about finding the right director, production team and company to produce this, and I commend OSC on the fact that he hard-headedly doesn't bow the Hollywood folks who want to cast grown-ups for this movie and introduce a love story to this (puh-lease).
No doubt about it, the Ender's Game movie will have a very hard time to live up to the hype and satisfy my opinionated expectations, having read “Ender's Game” almost nine times in two languages by now, but I can't help being very excited about this! Hey, I have even secured the domain http://www.enemysgateisdown.com just last week, wuhaha. :)