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Posted by Tony S. (Member # 6147) on :

Since Ender's Game is based mostly on child actors, here are my thoughts for the movie.

ENDER: Thomas Sangster
1. Great actor from the movie "Love Actually".
http://www.risingstar.to/tsangster.html

PETRA: Keisha Castle-Hughes
1. Girl from the movie "Whale Rider".
Great actress and great skills but she is probably too big for the part.
http://www.keishacastlehughes.com/photo-gallery-whale-rider.asp

BEAN: Don't know his name.
1. This is a hard one. I chose the kid on this movie clip. I don't know his name and I don't know if he even speaks English but when I saw him I thought he would be perfect for Bean.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/valentin.html

Another idea for Bean is the little kid from the Tracy Morgan show. He cracks me up.

Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :

They're making a movie out of the book? Cashing in on Peter Jackson's success, no doubt.

Posted by Saruman (Member # 2275) on :

An Ender's Game movie? Is it coming out anytime soon?

Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :

You know who they should get? That kid from The Phantom Menace. Or maybe the one from The Sixth Sense!

Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :

I sure hope the writer does a good job on the screenplay.

Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :

http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/ender/endersgame_update.html

Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :

nice to see that Sarcasm is alive and well

[ROFL]

Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :

If every obscure passage that I love in that book isn't presented on screen in exactly the way that I imagine it, then OSC has sold out.

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

I'D BETTER USE ALL CAPS OR NO ONE WILL SEE MY THREAD!

Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :

honestly, folks, it's not funny anymore.

tony, i am totally with you on the casting of petra, keisha would have been great. but yes, she is far too grown up already as it is.

Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :

[ROFL]

I'm sorry, it may be wrong to laugh, but Slash totally made me snort.

[ROFL]

Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :

no, i thought slash's was funny, too.
it hasn't been done before. and before. and before.
unlike the rest of those jokes, which i really don't even think applied as well since i feel the original post was valid and didn't bring up the usual newbie-esque questions.

Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :

I thought that everybody handled this thread quite well. Exactly what I've come to expect from Hatrack.

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