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- From: dagolden@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Alexandre Golden)
- Subject: Re: Ender: The Movie
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.025020.16026@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <1992Dec14.160009.8188@ugle.unit.no> <1992Dec14.181253.5742@pixel.kodak.com> <hoahosth.64.724432565@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:50:20 GMT
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- In article <hoahosth.64.724432565@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au> hoahosth@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au (ANDREA HOSTH) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec14.181253.5742@pixel.kodak.com> john@liebnitz.ssd.kodak.com (John Hall) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec14.160009.8188@ugle.unit.no> leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif
- >Magnar Kj|nn|y) writes:>>...
- >>>Oh, gods. Is it going to happen? A movie version of _Ender's Game_?
- >>>will. Please, please, please. If a miracle *does* happen, this could
- >>>get really good. ...
- >>It'll take a miracle.
- >>Remember _Nightfall_. Remember _Enemy Mine_. Remember _Dune_.
- >>Don't get your hopes up.
- >
- >Well, since "Ender's Game" is one of my all-time favourites of sf, I really
- >want to see what a movie would be like. But the point is taken. I really
- >wanted to see "Highlander II" as well. (I still can't get over that - the
- >way they completely ignored large proportions of the first movie's plot).
- >Anyway (stepping off soapbox), what I want to know is whether they will get
- >away with portraying Ender properly - ie. as around 8-12 years old (and if
- >they get McCauley Culkin to play him I'm going to kill myself).
-
- He's fairly high in the age range, but I propose the "John Connor" from
- T2. (Eddie Furlong or some such). Given the character he played in T2,
- people would be much more able to accept him as a killer rather than your
- average "cute" child actor.
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- David A. Golden '95 (dagolden@phoenix.princeton.edu)
- Princeton University
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