Re: Ender's Game Movie Trailer *forthcoming*

[nikkib89]

I loved the twist at :52

[zzzbrianxxx]

Not really how I pictured it - but to each his own. Interesting take

[theaussiekid566]

thats really awesome, i need to read the books again

i loved the whole series, i hope they make a movie! this has got me excited!

[Boothby171]

Thank you, theaussiekid!

Don't forget to buy and enjoy "The Authorized Ender Companion" (by Jake Black). I have an entire chapter (as well as additional drawings and renderings) on the Technology of Ender's Game.

You'll find my drawing on the back cover, as well.

(PS--the beautiful line-art drawing of the armored Battle School is not by me--it's by D. Robbins. I had informed the publisher, but this attribution was, unfortunately, omitted)

[ThomasCBrannan]

you do not own a copyright to this

[Boothby171]

to which? The image, or the music?

[writemabel]

I think ThomasCBrannan was referring to the end where it says "Copyright (c) 2006 by Stephen Sywak"

[Boothby171]

So how do I not have the copyright to the video, then?

You don't think that my REAL name is Boothby171, do you???

[writemabel]

No i get that that's your name. And I don't really care if you have copyright to it or not. I was merely being stupid and sticking my nose where it doesn't belong. Es tut mir leid.

[lostsnconfusion]

wow thats it..horrible

[forallya]

omg!! Perfect! never seen anything so close to enders game ever! good job!!!:P

[Boothby171]

Thanks!

[lonestar541]

hmm this really sucked lol

[orginunknown]

that was the biggest fucking waste of time. you owe me 1:31 of my life back.

[justapersonn5]

finally someone who made it look like how i pictured it! thats how i pictured battle school or at least really close

[Boothby171]

Thanks! I appreciate that!

Marvel Comics is also using my design as the basis for their own rendition of the Battle School in their Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow comics series.

If you go to their website, and look for "Battle School #2 Preview", you can see their version.

And it's OK that it should look like mine...we worked that out.

[justapersonn5]

wow theyr using your design? thats pretty cool. i love the book i really hope the movie will be good... has it already been made cuz everywere i look are fanmade trailers, not real ones....do you know anytrhing about a movie?

[Boothby171]

I've been a fan of the books ever since I read EG roughly 15 years ago! I don't have any "inside track" on the EG movie, except that I have read that OSC is working on a screenplay again.

But I like to say that Marvel is well known for taking their comic book properties and making some excellent films out of them!

[Boothby171]

I just hope they talk to me about the Battle School first...as much as I love "what they've done with it" in the comic, I'm still not entirely sure that they can actually fit any of the battle rooms into it (I *can*).

[EliteUnion]

I could create a better animation with 3ds Max

[Boothby171]

Then please do so; I would love to see it.

The program I used was not ideally suited to do high-end animations, but I did not have a legal copy of 3DS at the time. One uses what tools one has.

[EnderDio]

key word "legal"

[christiannehrt]

good display, but what about ender in battle?

[TacoBoi17]

sort of look slike the base..

[Boothby171]

Which base? Or would that be "What Base"?

The base, perhaps, YOUR base, all of which are belong to us?

You are on the way to destruction.

[RunescapeJcpenny]

.... WTF! this is sooooooooooooo gaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy....... put on a real trailer man, or don't put any!

[Boothby171]

Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. I mean, Jack Skellington tells me he understands YOU, and really likes YOUR Ender's Game trailer and all, but...

[torpubgal]

I like this, though I wish there was more of it (I know it already took a lot of time). Check out the Ender in Exile video somewhere on here (new Ender book); it uses images from the Marvel comic, and I'm starting to think an animated Ender's Game movie wouldn't be bad (although I'd prefer live action).

[xixlovexrazorsx]

I'm Currently Working on a Screenplay of Enders game/ Shadow, Because as both books are based roughly around the same time (Bean and Ender Work together ) You could go back and forth between both Of the Amazing Hero's in one Movie, which is my plan, and Title it under 'Ender's Game' Its brilliant if i do say so my self.

[imak3ueat]

yes the movie may turn out bad cuz book was short but i want people to know if the movie was bad try the book i bet you'll love it

[KipSP]

perfect in every way but i almost picture battle school as more of a halo with a large orb connected to it in the middle.

and whats the song?

[Boothby171]

Thanks!

The song is Enya's "Far and Away."

I tried a halo (not "Halo") approach, but packing 9 battle rooms in a ring makes it HUGE. Plus spheres suck for packing interior space (IMHO).

[xixlovexrazorsx]

It's not perfect only two Circles, used in this, when I remember there being more than four but only five Accessible to students, Either way lol

[Boothby171]

Actually, a bunch of the launchies thought there might have been a third habitation ring, but were never really sure...

[xixlovexrazorsx]

Why would there Be a Third? Your TALKING big Habitation Rings, Thought there was Four not three (Confirmed in a later novel I think.)

[Boothby171]

I seem to recall the possibility odf a third ring weas mentioned by Bean in "Ender's Shadow," after he had done some research on-board. Not critical to the story line OR the school design; the thought was raised just to highlight how the kids could not trust the administrative staff for good info.

Never read about FOUR rings, though. By the time the later novels came out, Card and I had already discussed THIS design...

[Boothby171]

Thanks.

With my limited time and skills, there was no way I was going to be able to put together a story-based trailer!

One day, I'll put together the precursor to this scene--the launch of the shuttle from below the belly of the earth.

[benquid]

Too much build up for not enough pay off.

It would be of been more rewarding if the gate opened up and there was a blast of light; then have "Ender's Game: The Movie... coming soon" or something like that.

[bigbergie]

alright, what is the name of that song? i am looking for what movies it was in and who or what it was by...i gave up

[Boothby171]

It's "Far and Away," by Enya. It was used on the Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman film called..."Far and Away."

[RyuksApple]

meh

[youngkpb7]

Check out my enders game trailer in my channel

its really good!!

[EnjoiBrooksy]

Yeah in Enders Shadow it says that there are9 different rings on the battle school

[Boothby171]

Nine battle rooms, actually.

And there is a legitimate concern over two vs. three "rings." But (IIRC) Bean acknowledges that the charts he saw might have been old and obsolete. But, most of all, two rings work! The nine battle rooms divide naturally into 3 groups of 3, and then the two rings separate them out. Plus, the additional room provided by a third ring appears to be unecessary (there's plenty of usable real-estate without it). So...it all adds up to two rings.

[WeeBear]

The visuals and the general outline of the battle school is good (shouldn't there be more rings like he said in Ender's Shadow when Bean discovers an emergency escape floor plan? not that it really matters...). I have to agree with maggosh about the music though. It doesn't seem to fit with the story. This music would possibly work with certain parts of the movie, but not showing battle school like a wonderful place. I think the music should be more stern and serious, not necessarily rock tho ;)

[strongsocks]

did you read enders shadow

[Boothby171]

Yes, I did. ES was incorporated into the design of the Battle School as best as it could be (you may note the three ring/two ring controversy, below).

Card also incorporated some early dimensions to the Battle Rooms from earlier on-line discussions on Frescopictures; the Battle Rooms in ES are statred to be 100m on a side (I've since convinced myself that 75m/side works a little better).

[maggosh]

Nice, nice, but I would've chosen different music.

[Boothby171]

Eh...to each his (or her) own.

I love the music...but my kids hate it!

[PizzaBoy37]

wtf is this? I really hope the movie is better than this...

[Boothby171]

I do, too. Duh!

[willowtreephoto]

loop it for 2 hours and you gots a hit

[xoCutieGirlox]

Omg I luv this series!!!~

[chubswilband66]

ok,

i just red the book and it was cool but this trailer dident really mke sense to me. I thought this trailer was lame, but i bet the movies gonna be good :P

[Boothby171]

It's really more of a study, or a pre-viz, of the Battle School, rather than a trailer. i really didn't put it together to have much of an emotional impact, other than "that's way the hell cool!"

[Luv2ReadProductions]

Neat design. What's your opinion (as an engineer) of the concept used for the cover to "A War of Gifts"?

[Boothby171]

The station is just another standard, non-descript, non-specific "Space Station-sized" thing. It's obvious that it doesn't rotate, since it has asymmetric antennae coming off the upper right side, and interconnecting vertical tubes between all the short, cylindrical "decks".

Not much of any other possibly meaningful components hanging off of it, such as docking ports, weapons, etc.

And no room for Battle Rooms!

[Boothby171]

I think OSC once said, of the earlier covers from EG and such that there's a couple of sci-fi cover artists that just draw semi-random sci-fi looking objects that rarely, if ever, have even the slightest thing to do with the story.

It's one of those. At least it looks like it might be a space station.

[Luv2ReadProductions]

Funny. Now that you say those things, they all seem obvious. It still has a coolness factor that appeals to me though.

But if a movie is ever made, I'd prefer plausability over coolness. Thanks for posting this vid by the way.

[Boothby171]

What?  More cool than MINE!?

[Luv2ReadProductions]

Let me rephrase that. Plausability has an inherrent coolness that trumps stylistic artistry. :)

...so you win.

[Boothby171]

Phew! That was close!

The question is...will Hollywood value plausability-related coolness  over general "Coolness"?

(Big fan of plausibility-based coolness, myself, obviously!)

[nobodycares345]

hey i cant wait to read the sequal speaker for the dead and enders shadow

[MingLaba]

Where can I download it?I'm so big fan of that movie.

[andrewthedrummerboy]

hey, I've met OSC! he came to my home town and gave a great speech. so do you personally know him?

[Boothby171]

ATDB,

Card and I aren't "friends" if that's what you mean. We're...acquaintances, at best. I've met him about 3 or 4 times, sent/received a dozen or so e-mails, plus I talked with him at some book signings, and (I must say) at lunch during EnderCon.

But it's pretty much always been about the books; it's not like he's saying (or I'm saying), "So, how's the wife and kids...?"

We're certainly friendly, but we haven't ever just sat down, played cards (no pun) and talked about nothing.

[andrewthedrummerboy]

well, that's cool though! I'd like to know him at leaste that well. :P

[Boothby171]

He's an excellent speaker, BTW. Really knows how to tell a good story...(who'd a thought!?!)

[noelceb]

Is he really making a movie out of EG and ES?

[destry42]

nice simulation but the battleschool has 9 wheeles (as explaned in Enders Shadow) and your missing the shuttle dock

[Boothby171]

No, the Battle School has nine Battle Rooms. The simulation shows nine Battle Rooms. You are entering the shuttle dock at the end of the sequence. there is a similar dock on the far side. The one possible criticism you might have raised is that the simulation only has 2 habitation rings ("wheels"), and Bean believes that there may be three, but that only 2 are known and accessible to the students. Bean is wrong. I worked it out with OSC.

[jon92eric]

sorry but that barley has to do with enders game,

its just the battle school floating in space,

it doesnt even mention ender

[joshbassham]

cool idea for a teaser

[saltednutss]

rofl, this is the funniest thing ever, i love this book

[Boothby171]

I havent read Speaker for a number of years, now (I finally found my copy, so I'll be reading it again after HP7, Empire, and another read of EG). It's a totally different Ender, so you know. Older, but still haunted. It's got a great bunch of characters in it, totally different from EG. I still like EG and ES more, but many fans like Speaker as much as EG! Definitely go for it!

[SupperMario1223]

is speaker for the dead any good

[Boothby171]

Um, Idiots--I've discussed the design with OSC, and he's perfectly fine on the two decks. We really didn't discuss the color.

Feanor, if I didn't have all this pesky WORK to do...I would!

--Steve

[FeanorAncalime]

Its intro was really awesome, really cool music to fit. Man, you should make a trailer for the entire series.

[youidiots12337]

What's so great about that? Since when does battle school only have two revolving decks and is teal?

Nice graphics but says absolutely nothing about the book. And to be blunt, it's boring.

[Boothby171]

It's Enya's "Far and Away" I believe it's from the Tom Cruise/Nicole Kidman film of the same name.

And thanks!

[jedipwnces]

it is... it's a great movie, too. :)

[Kamiron151]

The BEST Ender's game vid yet! Whats the song called?

[Boothby171]

Yes, GMM, it is...

[Greasemonkeymusician]

is that supposed to be the Battle school?

[Boothby171]

January's only a few weeks away! Can't wait to see some more "real" Ender's Game stuff!

[belldanime]

What do you mean "Real" Ender's Game?!

Just kidding. =)

I've put mine on hiatus because of time restrictions with school. I'll work on it again come January.