Ok, no surprise here! X-Men Origins: Wolverine helmer, Gavin Hood, will be in charge for the upcoming live-action adaptation of Orson Scott Card‘s 1985 novel titled Ender's Game.
By the way, Hood is in charge for the script as well and today we finally learned that he will direct this project for Summit Entertainment. Mystery solved!
So now when we know most of the details, let's continue with our little chat about this one. First of all, Summit Entertainment studio has acquired U.S. rights to the film which is expected to go into production by early next year. Then, ‘Star Trek' superproducers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are producing together with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough of OddLot Entertainment.
So, as you see, it will be a quite big team on board for this live-action adaptation of the story that follows:
“…a brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut – young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity.
Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Is Ender the general Earth needs?
But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.”
We'll have to wait and see Hood's “big twist” at the end of the story, so make sure you stay tuned for more updates!
