Ender's Ansible

No Major Plot Changes Kurtzman Says

MTV caught up with Ender’s Game producer, Alex Kurtzman for the the trailer debut of the film “People Like Us” and asked him for a little Ender’s Game movie update. Here’s what he had to say:

“I’m really proud of the work everybody’s done on ‘Ender’s.’ Particularly because it’s a very complicated sprawling book that a lot of people have tried for a very long time to figure out how to make.” Kurtzman continued, “[Director] Gavin Hood, the minute that we read his script we realized that in a miraculous way he’d managed to distill down the essence of the book and the big moves to a very understandable clear format,”

Kurtzman also touched on plot changes which fans have been eager to hear about, “He had made changes that were I think totally protective of the novel, he hasn’t changed any of the plot, it’s just about not being able to put all of it in one movie. He really distills it down to its essence in a beautiful way and that was an amazing thing to see. It’s an amazing thing to see the movie come to life because it’s such a special and different movie.”

To read more of what Kurtzman had to say on MTV here. What changes do you imagine they’re making from the book to the movie?

Thanks elfprince13 for the tip!

New Volume of Ender Essays Announced

Aaron Johnston, collaborator on the Formic Wars comics and co-author of the forthcoming novel  Earth Unaware: The First Formic War just tweeted that he “Just turned in [his] essay for” Ender’s World: Fresh Perspectives on The SF Classic Ender’s Game, edited by Orson Scott Card.

From the title’s website:

Ender’s World conscripts almost two dozen writers of science fiction, fantasy, and young adult books to offer new perspectives on the 1985 novel, along with insights gleaned from other Ender stories that fit within the Ender’s Game chronology, including Ender in Exile and Ender’s Shadow. In addition, military strategists Colonel Tom Ruby and Captain John Schmitt offer insight into the human-Formic war. Contributions from Aaron Johnson, the coauthor of the Formic Wars prequel novels, and Jake Black, the coauthor of The Authorized Ender Companion, are also included.

The collection’s insightful analyses and moving personal essays are rounded out with short pieces answering more technically oriented questions about the Ender universe, including: Why is the Battle Room a cube? and Why did the military recruit their soldiers as children?

Edited by Orson Scott Card himself, who also provides an introduction to the anthology as well as to the individual essays, Ender’s World is aimed both at readers who have kept up with the many books that came after and at those who have not, but who loved and want to re-visit the original novel.

No publication date or information appears to be currently listed, but an option is presented for receiving email updates.

What do you think? Are you interested in this title which appears, in many ways, to be a companion of sorts to the Authorized Ender Companion? Is that an artist’s rendering of the Battle School on the cover?