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For reasons beyond my control I wound up going in to see Ender’s Game more unaware and “in the dark” than any movie that readily comes to mind.  I’ve long known who the main actors were and who they were playing, but other than that, including who was scoring the thing?

Nope.  Nada.  And this, the film adaptation of  Orson Scott Card’s novel that has been one of my very most favorite books since first reading it in 1990.  A novel that has become not only a bona-fide science-fiction classic but one of modern literature as a whole.  I should have been total fanboy for this thing from the beginning.

Instead, I went in as cold as one is apt to be in this day and age.  Hopefully, it is a trick that I could pull off again…

…because I was absolutely delighted and thrilled with how Ender’s Game came ...

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It’s been almost a quarter-century since I first read Ender’s Game and for almost as long I’ve heard a movie adaptation being discussed.  With less than three months before it finally comes out, I’m at long last… feeling more than cautiously optimistic that this will be a very, very good movie.

Here’s the last trailer we’ll see before the release on November 1st:




I know it would be ridiculously difficult to pull off because in so many ways it’s a wildly different sort of tale, but I’m hoping this movie does well so an adaptation of the sequel Speaker for the Dead can get greenlit.

And I’m sooooo looking forward to watching and writing a review of this movie!  Even more than I did for Watchmen, maybe…...

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This is not a good sign…

That’s Harrison Ford as Graff and Asa Butterfield as Ender, in the first official pic from the production of Ender’s Game, based on Orson Scott Card’s classic science-fiction novel.

For the record, I think Butterfield is a terrific and astounding young actor. The first time I saw him in anything it was in Hugo and he brought a spirit and sense of adventure to that film that I hadn’t seen from a movie in an awful long time. The kid has a brilliant future ahead of him.

But looking at that pic, with his Ender getting stared-down by Graff… I can’t but wonder if this film is being cast well at all.

It’s like this: Ender should be smaller. And younger. Butterfield in this photo looks like he could be Ender Wiggin, but a few years down the line. At this point in ...

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