| That would be great; I've already waited 30-40 years for certain comics (X-Men, Hulk, Flash) to come to the movies or TV. The good news is that we have better special effects now, and the characters' abilities can be portrayed as in the comics; the downside is that the majority of stories often don't do the characters justice (refer Heinlein's Starship Troopers). To see Ender the Xenocide brought to the screen might give a few people thoughts about our problems with terrorism and foreign policy: who knows, someone might stop and think about things.
However, I don't know how much would be lost in translation, which does worry me. . .I worry about what might get changed or cut out. the interactions between Ender, Valentine & Peter, and their genius-level mentalities, COULD NOT be exorcised from any conceivable script; otherwise it'd seem to me to be an SF "Home Alone". And the child playing Ender would have to evoke a great sense of empathy.
I apologize, though. . .I ramble. I don't have a computer of my own, so I use the one at work (now), or public access at the city or university libraries. Family worries have kept me from keeping up with science fiction in the past decade or so, as well. However, I still derive a very great enjoyment from what's left of my SF library, and I find that older stories--including those of previous generations--still affect me deeply. |