Ender S Game Movie Sequel

However between the lukewarm critical response our own kofi outlaw s review wryly notes that the adaptation defies expectations good and bad by falling squarely in the middle of the pool and a respectable box office.

Ender s game movie sequel. Despite the interest shown by hoop in making the sequel it seems like the original s weak box office performance has almost eliminated the possibility. An ender s game sequel or spin off hangs in the balance as lionsgate tracks the film s moderate box office earnings in the coming weeks. In november 2013 cast member aramis knight who played bean said a script for ender s shadow existed which hood wanted to film concurrently with ender s game but there was not enough money. One cast member claimed the script for ender s shadow exists concurrent with the events of ender s game the film plans changed as the child actors became older.

Considering all the information available an ender game sequel seems like a distant dream at the moment. Ender in exile which is both sequel of ender s game and a prequel to speaker for the dead was released in november 2008. Based on the orson scott card novel of the same name ender s game was envisioned as the first in a series of new sci fi films after all there s a ton of written material to draw from but the. It involves ender s journey to the first human colony on a former formic world.

Directed by gavin hood. It may ve taken 28 years but the ender s game movie adaptation finally opened in u s. Originally there was discussion of a franchise and the director s plan was to film a sequel movie at the same time as ender s game based on the sequel book speaker for the dead. Theaters this past weekend.

Hood discussed a potential sequel as well noting the children of the fleet novel may be more desirable as a follow up than the next novel in the series speaker for the dead. So if the studio really wanted to adapt the second novel in the series it would. Harrison ford and director gavin hood discuss their adaptation of orson scott card s sci fi novel a relatively weak 28m box office opening in the us this weekend means controversial. From a box office perspective prospects for a sequel to ender s game gavin hood s big screen adaptation of orson scott card s classic science fiction novel look somewhat bleak.

Young ender wiggin is recruited by the international military to lead the fight against the formics an insectoid alien race who had previously tried to invade earth and had inflicted heavy losses on humankind. With harrison ford asa butterfield hailee steinfeld abigail breslin.