| Release Date: | TBA |
| Cast: | TBA |
| Director: | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Screen Writer(s): | Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty |
| Official Site: | TBA |
| Trailers: | None |
| Status: | Script Stage |
| Synopsis/Plot: | The Hugo Award-winning young adult fantasy series begins on Earth after an alien attack. Gifted children are recruited for war, with a prodigy leading the assault against aliens. |
| News and Rumors: |
December 15, 2005: Orson Scott Card, author of science fiction novel classic "Ender's Game", gave an update this week on the progress of the film on his official message board. The project has been in and out of development for years, last making headlines for the hiring of "X2" and "Superman Returns" scribes Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris to adapt it. That news however was a long while back, not a peep has emerged since and Card himself explains why: "The option with Warner Bros. was due to expire on December 7th. There was no filmable script - though in fairness to the writers so far, they may well have been following faithfully all that they were actually asked to do - EG is simply a very hard story to put in script form. At the last minute, a committed Warner exec met with me and we worked out some key decisions. Warner is still strongly committed to making Ender's Game into a great movie, and we agreed to another year or so of option, starting with a new script written by me (a page-one rewrite not based on any previous script, including mine). Guess how I'll be spending my Christmas vacation. This is very promising, I think. As far as I know, all other elements of the team remain together. I will be working closely with Chartoff Productions and with the Warner executive to get this script right. It will be faithful to the story, within the limitations of a two-hour form factor. Stuff has to be left out. But what's THERE will be true to the story in the books, even if it isn't word-for-word or point-for-point the same. I want a movie people can sit through. Two hours if possible; no more than 2.5 hours. With two hours or less, you can get two showings a night at popular showtimes. That's the studio's goal; and it's mine, too. We're not doing Gandhi, here. It doesn't need to be ponderous. It needs NOT to be. It needs to be so good that people pack the theaters". -thanks to 'DarkHorizons' for the news!
August 1, 2005: "Orson Scott Card talked about the movie at San Diego Comic-Con. The first major piece of news are that they are combining Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow into one movie and making it more of a "buddy" movie between Ender and Bean. The second is that the option on the movie expires at the end of this year, so it may or may not get picked up again. " - Thanks to 'Meghan' for sending this in!
September 27, 2004: 'CountingDown' scooper 'JokerRipper', another attentive student over at NYU who was present for Bryan Singer, Mike Dougherty, and Dan Harris' recent appearance for the school's Director's Contact Series, has sent us another update on what was said by the two scribes about their work on 'Ender's Game': In regards to Ender's Game, Mike and Dan said that a provision of their working on Superman was that they turn in a finished draft for Ender's Game. Mike (I believe) said that they turned in a third draft, but it wasn't exactly what they wanted. Hopefully, if all goes well with Imaginary Heroes (Dan's most recent directorial excursion), Superman Returns and, presumeably Logan's Run would follow immediately thereafter, Ender's Game will be the next big project on the horizon for Mike and Dan.
April 28, 2004: We just got another email from Dark Cloak with more speculation of the Ender's Game casting, no word on any confirmations, just rumors for now: "Ender: Jake Llyod, Haley Joel Osment (people's choice), Mazar Rackham: Will Smith or Sean Connery, Graff: Tom Berenger, Major Anderson: Rosie O'Donnell, Janeane Garofalo or Angeline Jolie." We'll keep on eye on this.
April 15, 2004: Dark Cloak sends in this casting rumor: "They dont really have a very big cast for Enders game yet. In fact, the only one on the list was Jake Lloyd, whom I think is being casted as Ender Wiggin." No word or confirmations about this, we'll keep you posted.
February 21, 2004: Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty (X-Men 2) will adapt the Orson Scott Card books Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow for Wolfgang Petersen to direct.
The Hugo Award-winning young adult fantasy series begins on Earth after an alien attack. Gifted children are recruited for war, with a prodigy leading the assault against aliens.
