ENDER’S GAME Movie Adds Viola Davis
One of my favorite actors has just joined the cast to a very high profile sci fi adaptation. Get ready Ender’s Game fans, to welcome Viola Davis to the family. She had many award nominations for her role opposite the first lady of drama, Meryl Streep, in the critically acclaimed picture, Doubt, but it wasn’t [...]
Ender’s Game Film Casts Stilson
Bullies and bullying is a hot button issue right now in the real world. Well, it was also important to the plot of the Orson Scott Card classic, Ender’s Game. That’s not unusual. What I adore about science fiction is how readily it relates to the important issues of real life, never mind the fantastic [...]
ENDER’S GAME Finds its War Hero?
Ender’s Game, the movie, is beginning to really take shape. We have heard a handful of casting rumors and it seems many deals are currently under negotiation. It was just last week we learned Hugo star Asa Butterfield was circling the starring role in this adaptation of the Orson Scott Card classic sci fi tale. [...]
ENDER’S GAME Finds Petra in Hailee Steinfeld?
Ender Wiggin’s closest ally might have some serious ‘true grit’ because Hailee Steinfeld is in negotiations to play the female lead in OddLot Entertainment’s Ender’s Game, based on Orson Scott Card’s award-winning novel.
ENDER’S GAME Grabs another HUGO – Asa Butterfield is Ender Wiggins
While he can currently be seen running through 1930’s Paris in Hugo, Asa Butterfield will soon be taking a trip to the future where he’ll be battling insect-like aliens as Ender Wiggins in the film adaptation of Ender’s Game.
Ender’s Game to Summit Entertainment, Whedon’s Cabin in the Woods Through Lionsgate
At long last, it looks like two films might finally be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Deadline brings word that the rights to Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel Ender’s Game have been acquired by Summit Entertainment, with Gavin Hood set to direct the movie adaptation. Warner Bros got the rights back [...]
Gavin Hood on Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game?
The LA Times reports that Orson Scott Card’s famed 1985 sci-fi classic Ender’s Game is now under the Hood–Gavin Hood, that is. The filmmaker who brought you Tsotsi and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (ugh to the latter), is ready to move forward as director, having just finished a rewrite of Card’s script. Whether that means he [...]
The Ghost Quartet edited by Marvin Kaye review
The Ghost Quartet is a compilation of four original stories by known authors all writing with ghosts in mind. These four stories are all vastly different and each enjoyable in their own way. Though not all will give you those frightful shivers on a dark night, they are all very well written and entertaining for the stories they are.
Continue reading the review after the jump..
Short Thoughts on Short Fiction Vol. 7: Federations Part 1
For the next few weeks I am going to cover the anthology Federations (Prime Books 2009), edited by John Joseph Adams, in the Short Thoughts on Short Fiction format. Read my thoughts on the first four stories after the break.
News – Ender in Exile Video
Tor passed along a video featuring Orson Scott Card talking Ender in Exile and Ender in general! Remember, BookSpot Central has a signed copy of Ender in Exile up for grabs as a contest! Enjoy! Read/Post Comments A publisher, publicist, author, or artist and have news or announcements you think should be noted at BookSpot [...]
Contest – Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card (signed!)
I get this feeling for a lot of readers – in some small way – their continued reading of Science Fiction stems from trying to find that book that impacted them when they picked up Ender’s Game. I’m looking forward to seeing if it will be pulled off by the man that brought us Ender’s [...]
News – Read Marvel’s Ender’s Game: Battle School #1 for Free!
We just got word from Tor that Marvel Comics is allowing readers in the month of November to read for free Ender’s Game: Battle School #1 . Here is the release: November 2008 – Marvel Comics gives Tor.com an exclusive look at the full Free Digital Comic: Ender’s Game: Battle School #1 for the month [...]
