Topic: Ender's Game movie

Apparently, Orson Scott Card's brilliant science fiction novel Ender's Game is being made into a movie (what is this, like the fifteenth attempt?). Anyway, I've been thinking about how they would make it. Live action would be hard, they'd have to find the right SIX-YEAR-OLD actor just for the main character in the beginning. So we might as well rule that out. CG would probably raise problems, no doubt everyone's gonna be taking a holiday in Uncanny Valley. Stop-motion, sadly, wouldn't work right, it's just not fit for that genre. It would be nice if the studio could make it fit, though, Laika, for instance, would do a great job of it. Now the last option is 2D animation, preferably traditional. That would be awesome, and easier to fit in the cough Ender vs. Bonzo scene, because careful notice of each frame is absoloutely necessary for traditional animation. And traditional animation would really make all the battle sequences epic. I'm crossing my fingers.

Well they could do it Tron style with the six year old ender Cg like Clu. And when Ender gets older it would be live action.

oh please, young actors are a dime a dozen. they could do live-action no problem :3

I can think of a lot of good TV shows and movies with a good child actor, but nothing off the top of my head with a large cast predominantly of child actors that was good. I don't watch TV or movies much though.

I dunno, I just think it's easier to please the fans detail-wise if they animated it.
Of course, they would still have furious fans screaming about how Graff's nose was drawn wrong or something. Or about how it's becoming "a little kid movie" because it's animated.

Yeah.

I loved the book, but it seems like it'd be harder than hell to make a film out of it. If done right, it could be brilliant, but I'm prepared to be disappointed if this actually amounts to something. If anything, I agree, animation would work wonderfully. I just don't know if it could be rendered in a very believable way in live-action. Remember "The Last Airbender"? shudders

Nah, no way it could be that bad. I shouldn't even compare the two.

Oh yeah, that twas great... My friend rented it for a party, and by the time it was over I was almost crying from the joy of it being done.

Now that would be the bee's knees! Tron Legacy was beautiful digital eye candy.