Reading suggestions.

[saggs]

Really?  It's about time.  Always wondered why nobody had made that movie/movie series yet.

Because Card kept the movie rights to himself, and wrote his own screenplays, and has been very protective of it.  Basically he wants it done his way or not at all.  There have been several deals in works throughout the years, one with Warner Bros that Card killed because they refused to do it his way.  Because it is a story about super-genius kids, it is obviously difficult to cast, so in previous movie deals, production companies wanted to use animation or teenagers in the main roles, which Card flat refused.  I think this was smart on his part, it's such an iconic novel it would be a shame for someone to make a crappy movie of it, just look what happened with Clive Cussler and Sahara.

Looks like this time it is actually happening though, being is one of my all-time favorite novels, I sure hope it's a decent movie.  Probably a single though, the rest of the Ender series would be to slow for movies.  The entire Shadow series however would make fantastic movies.

[PFactorDave]

Because Card kept the movie rights to himself, and wrote his own screenplays, and has been very protective of it.  Basically he wants it done his way or not at all.  There have been several deals in works throughout the years, one with Warner Bros that Card killed because they refused to do it his way.  Because it is a story about super-genius kids, it is obviously difficult to cast, so in previous movie deals, production companies wanted to use animation or teenagers in the main roles, which Card flat refused.  I think this was smart on his part, it's such an iconic novel it would be a shame for someone to make a crappy movie of it, just look what happened with Clive Cussler and Sahara.

Looks like this time it is actually happening though, being is one of my all-time favorite novels, I sure hope it's a decent movie.  Probably a single though, the rest of the Ender series would be to slow for movies.  The entire Shadow series however would make fantastic movies.

Interesting!  I lokk forward to it even more knowing the author has a hand in the project.

[VonMessa]

I would suggest Steven Brust. Start with "Jhereg" . Also highly recommend The "Black Company" series by Cook .

 

[texasmom]

Because Card kept the movie rights to himself, and wrote his own screenplays, and has been very protective of it.  Basically he wants it done his way or not at all.  There have been several deals in works throughout the years, one with Warner Bros that Card killed because they refused to do it his way.  Because it is a story about super-genius kids, it is obviously difficult to cast, so in previous movie deals, production companies wanted to use animation or teenagers in the main roles, which Card flat refused.  I think this was smart on his part...

that was refreshing to hear.  I bet it will be well worth the wait!

[Melvin]

I'm sure I'll be fine.

I didn't mean to suggest otherwise, just felt obligated to throw that out there for all parties.

[texasmom]

 

[Babalonian]

Because Card kept the movie rights to himself, and wrote his own screenplays, and has been very protective of it.  Basically he wants it done his way or not at all.  There have been several deals in works throughout the years, one with Warner Bros that Card killed because they refused to do it his way.  Because it is a story about super-genius kids, it is obviously difficult to cast, so in previous movie deals, production companies wanted to use animation or teenagers in the main roles, which Card flat refused.  I think this was smart on his part, it's such an iconic novel it would be a shame for someone to make a crappy movie of it, just look what happened with Clive Cussler and Sahara.

Looks like this time it is actually happening though, being is one of my all-time favorite novels, I sure hope it's a decent movie.  Probably a single though, the rest of the Ender series would be to slow for movies.  The entire Shadow series however would make fantastic movies.

This.  It is one of Hollywood's inside jokes right now - who/what/where/when will it ever finally get made.

Here we go, again.

[wil3ur]

Recently read:

Game of Thrones (great books... almost like Dune in Fantasy, mostly a political intruigue story)
King Killer Chronicals Books 1 and 2 (Also great books, Fantasy which isn't my normal genre, kind of goes along with Skyrim and Dragon speech, but different.)
Right now I'm finishing up the Dreaming Void series of books by Peter F Hamilton, it's the 2nd series in this universe, lots of sex and violence and way too many characters to keep track of, but good stuff.
The Diamond Age (Interesting book on Nanotech and Hippies)

I've read quite a few other sci-fi novels which is what I mostly read, but nothing really has stood out besides the Peter F Hamilton books.

For non-fiction I've recently finished

The Ottoman Centuries -- Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire by Lord Kinross, a very good read and great primer for looking at the mess of the middle east and the balkans we have today.
Collapse -- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, this was garbage, don't read it.  The guy is exactly the type of person we hate in MT, and his whole book tries to tie everything back to MT.  Very Lame.

[wil3ur]

^^^ This.  Battlefield Earth is a great book.  The movie has very little in common with the book, just like the movie Starship Troopers has almost nothing in common with the book, except the name.

Really?  Nothing L. Ron wrote is great...  It's not Science Fiction, it's Scientologist Fiction.  

Witness the amazing transformational powers of the Church of Psychotonomy!

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81081063/

[saggs]

On the Ender's Game movie topic.

Orson Scott Card talking about the movie.  Over a year old (script is done, and roles are cast now) but still relevant.  He's very open about the large chunk of the story they have had to cut out.  Basically they will show Ender leaving for battle school, and the next scene will be him in Bonzo's Army, without a lot of battle room scenes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik-3WWanvs&feature=related


P.S.  I'm reading Edgar Rice Burroughs'  Princess of Mars right now. Not a real deep story, just a masculine adventure story that doesn't take itself -or science- to seriously.  Really it's a break from the deep thinking philosophical stuff I usually read.  Plus it's kind of fun to see how science fiction writers (even if they weren't called that beck then) envisioned Mars in 1910.