First of all, the production committee responsible for adapting the book clearly did everything on a tight budget and a tight schedule. I bet a ridiculous percentage of their money went to paying for the corpse of Harrison Ford to show up in that film and add approximately nothing to it.
They also clearly didn't care about the military/tactical/political stuff that gets told brilliantly in the book and creates a huge part of the identity of making Ender's Game into being what it is, rather than being solely about the flashy CGI space battles that the movie focused on. The movie just felt like a lazy half-baked cash grab to follow in the wake of all the young adult novel movie adaptations that were cash cows at the time, like those stupid vampire books or that Jennifer Lawrence series.
Point is, while a mini-series format could benefit Ender's Game by giving it more screen time to stretch its legs out and allow more of the story to make it into the script, anyone who adapts this movie has to include more than the Hollywood sci-fi explosions.
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Reply to I feel like Ender's Game (2013) would have made for a MUCH better TV show/miniseries than it would have for the film adaptation that we got. by Jamey4
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Now that's out of the way, discussion:
First of all, the production committee responsible for adapting the book clearly did everything on a tight budget and a tight schedule. I bet a ridiculous percentage of their money went to paying for the corpse of Harrison Ford to show up in that film and add approximately nothing to it.
They also clearly didn't care about the military/tactical/political stuff that gets told brilliantly in the book and creates a huge part of the identity of making Ender's Game into being what it is, rather than being solely about the flashy CGI space battles that the movie focused on. The movie just felt like a lazy half-baked cash grab to follow in the wake of all the young adult novel movie adaptations that were cash cows at the time, like those stupid vampire books or that Jennifer Lawrence series.
Point is, while a mini-series format could benefit Ender's Game by giving it more screen time to stretch its legs out and allow more of the story to make it into the script, anyone who adapts this movie has to include more than the Hollywood sci-fi explosions.