Just FYI: I just saw that the teen book Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is being made into a movie to be released October 2008.
I very much enjoyed our quite spiritied discussions of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card....it also brought up more questions than answers for me.
One thing mentioned in both A and B lunch periods was the rumor that Michael Jackson owned the movie rights to the novel. I checked on that and I believe that information is going to fall under the realm of "urban legend". The info I could find shows that Fresco Pictures has been working with Card on the screenplay...I couldn't find any potential release dates, or even an indication if the project is moving forward, etc. If you find more info...please post under the comments.
Also, I incorrectly stated that the book Ender's Game was written in 1977. I have since discovered, thanks to our sci-fi guru here at MPL, Kevin Maring, that part of the book was published as a short story in 1977, but that the novel wasn't published until 1986 (when it won the Hugo and Nebula Awards.)
A contested plot point in our discussion seemed to be whether or not (or precisely when) the Buggers connected (via their unique mental form of communication) with Ender and the exact origin/role of the video game he played (the one with the giant) and the subsequent replica land. I don't think this point was resolved...and wondered, after people had a chance to look back over the book, or think about it more...what do you think?
One thing most of us seemed to agree on was our dislike of the newer cover art (in relationship to the tone/intended audience for the book.)
A movie has been made out of Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi. These graphic novels memoirs tell the story through the eyes of the author, who was a young Iranian girl growing up during the Islamic Revolution. Read a review of the movie.
