10 thoughts on “Ender’s Game Weightless Effects”

  1. I don’t care who does them, I don’t care if they become the SyFy Channel monster of the week, produced in Bulgaria and starring a somewhat portly Bruce Campbell and his pal, CGI, but will someone look into making movies of any filmable Hugo and Nebula award winners? Please, for the love of all that’s holy, no more teen vampire skank flicks.

    1. any filmable Hugo and Nebula award winners?

      The word ‘filmable’ is redundant unless your creative class is incompetent.

      Oh, sorry. Yes, it sucks.

    2. There have been a few filmed Hugo and Nebula award winners, a quick scan of the award lists comes up with 14 (not being a huge film buff, I could easily have missed a couple) turned into movies or tv series.

      What struck me is that Philip K. Dick won only one Hugo (for The Man in the High Castle), but a huge number of his stories have been turned into movies. Two nominated non-winners have been adapted, A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka “Blade Runner”).

      Side note: Materials for an abandoned movie adaptation of Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light (Hugo novel 1968) was turned into Argo by the CIA for extracting some embassy personnel from Iran, an event turned into the Ben Afflec’s docudrama Argo

    5. Meh. Novels just aren’t easily adaptable to film lengths, unless the book in question is 90% description. “Graphic novels”, on the other hand, are almost custom-made for filming.

  2. The movie Apollo 13, which included the first-ever live action sequences using actual zero g, was beat out for the special effects Oscar by… CGI talking pigs in Babe.

    Communists.

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