“Ender’s Game” by my favourite author, Orson Scott Card, is coming to a theatre near you. As with most book-to-film adaptations, I am cautiously optimistic, hesitant, excited, and hoping for the best.
Today, the first look at Ender’s Game left my heart hammering in my ribcage.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.
I am ridiculously excited for this. They cast the battleschool children a little old, but that might be a necessity of having more capable actors to do justice to the complexities of the rolls.
And Ford as Graff… oh man oh man.
Can you feel my heart pounding?
Here’s hoping.
H.G. Bells 