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Movie Update - March 14, 2005
Benioff and Weiss to Write Ender's Game Script
David Benioff, the writer of the screenplay for Wolfgang Petersen's
2004 epic Troy, has been signed by Warner Bros. to pen the script for
the movie Ender's Game.
Benioff will work with his writing partner, DB Weiss, in close
cooperation with Petersen, who is developing Ender's Game with the
intent of directing it himself.
The screenplay will be based on Orson Scott Card's novels Ender's Game
and Ender's Shadow.
Says Card, "Mr. Benioff proved with Troy that he could adapt a long
work to fit the brevity of film, while preserving what is most
powerful and effective in the original."
Any film of Ender's Game will be heavily dependent on special effects,
says Card, "but it's the characters that the audience must care about
for the film to succeed."
"I have every expectation that he and Mr. Weiss will be able to create
a screenplay that will distill the strong characters and moral
dilemmas of the novel into an exciting film that will justify the huge
expense involved in filming it," said Card.
Benioff also adapted his own novel, 25th Hour, into a screenplay for
the Spike Lee-directed 2002 film that starred Edward Norton.
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