They know he'll never waste them, that he's not exploiting them for his own gain. There's a disparate group of kids who could be rivals, and he's able to bind them together through his personal service to them, through his loyalty, his trustworthiness. What works with Ender's Game is Ender's community-building. WIRED grabbed a rare audience with the author, now 62 (and having written about as many novels and recovered from a stroke in 2011), to talk about the saga behind the movie that will also, hopefully, transcend his politics. Yet paradoxically, what we got from him in Ender's Game was a deeply humanist story of the perils of war and prejudice, a tale so moving we turned the pages of the book until they fell out. (Card has campaigned against gay marriage for many years.)Ī lifelong Mormon and a hyperbolic political columnist, Card has written religio-political essays that at times suggest things like, say, overthrowing the US government. But then Ender's Game stumbled again: Last summer, activists called for the movie's boycott, angered by Card's intolerant views on homosexuality. Asa Butterfield ( Hugo) was cast as Ender and Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine director Gavin Hood was chosen to write and direct. OddLot Entertainment stepped in and partnered with Summit (a division of Lionsgate) to produce the movie. This month, the classic book comes to the big screen after decades in development purgatory-including at least half a dozen scripts rejected and the studio rights changing hands.
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