Ender's Shadow is a parallel novel to Game, but it's about Bean.  The Shadow sequence follows the ones that stayed on Earth.

I like the Shadow sequence more than the Speaker of the Dead sequence, but Enders Game is my favorite of the books.

 

The trailer looks really good, I'll be interested to see how much of Val and Peters story they cut out, or rather if they leave any of it in.

Depending on if they want to make the next books in the series, they may dial back on the Valentine / Peter years and focus on the Battle School and The Bugger War. Valentine's role could be largely absorbed by Petra in that case since Valentine is more prominent in the later books. 

IIRC my favorite character was actually Ender's brother but it's been a long time and I only read each book once.

Maybe after I'm done reading the Thrawn trilogy I'll switch back over to the Ender series again.

I REALLY hope they portray the loneliness of Ender, and the raw "evil-ness" (I'm not sure what else to call it) of his brother peter, and the different emotions they feel for each-other, the hate/love relationship they have, and i hope as said before they don't "disney-fie" the movie, and before i watch it, i'll come here...if theres bad reviews on here, i'm not watching it. haha

I am worried if they can keep the ending a secret. If i am looking at the trailer, than i fear they dont.

I'm more worried that they seem to be developing a romance between Ender and Petra, but the casting looks good

I've been looking forward to this movie for twelve years now but after watching the trailer I'm not really feeling it.

I don't feel like the trailer really indicates whether the movie will be good or not. The cast looks good at least... But I don't think the movie is going to do well in the box office. 

I probably won't see it.  The Trailer spoiled the ending... the middle... the whole movie.

I think they're assuming that you've read the book.

 

I really hope that scene from the end is from one of the ... earlier games ... and not the final one. It's totally the wrong emotion for Ender if it is. Oh well, I'll still see it. I've been waiting 20 years.

 

Second trailer...

Why do they have to spoil movies so much.

 

 

 

This is no game 

 

 

Why do they have to spoil movies so much.

 

 

 

This is no game 

 

 

 Because Audience's don't like to be surprised. (This is where you insert angry yelling obscenities at the stupidity of people)

Look at Oblivion. It had potential. But they spoiled everything in the trailer. They were trying to make the

 

'aliens invaders are actually humans'

 

Bit, a main shocking plot line, that took them 45-60 minutes to reveal! But. the trailer? The trailer spoiled it in 5 seconds!

To be fair, its only that big of a spoiler if you already know the context, which means you have read the book or already have been spoiled.

I agree with Knivy, if you've never read the story, the trailer doesn't spoil anything. If you read the books, then you know everything that happens anyways and can recognize the supposed "spoilers".

in this particular case, I agree to an extent - the 'final' battle is only a spoiler if you've read the books to understand the difference between them.  But that 'It's not a game' does seem different.  Not the worst spoiled film, I think either Gatsby of Fast and Furious 6 get that award :)

So... I just realized this was released on Nov 1.  Has anybody watched it?

Yea. Its prettygood.

Gah! I know they have to change stuff due to time and other constraints and can agree with some of them, but GAHHH I can't stand the rest!

Ill have to watch this soon...

So I finally watched it..  I don't know what I expected..  I thought the acting was only okay..  One thing that really put me off was the lack of any real signifier of how much time was passing.  The whole military part seems to fit into maybe two weeks, with maybe 5 of those at battle school.  The only thing i found was the few frames where they showed dragon at the top of the standings.

 

I dont know, I didnt love it, but it stayed pretty close to the general idea of the book.

It was honestly better than I was expecting. Thought the kid playing Ender was pretty good, but older than I was expecting.

 

So I finally watched it..  I don't know what I expected..  I thought the acting was only okay..  One thing that really put me off was the lack of any real signifier of how much time was passing.  The whole military part seems to fit into maybe two weeks, with maybe 5 of those at battle school.  The only thing i found was the few frames where they showed dragon at the top of the standings.

 

I dont know, I didnt love it, but it stayed pretty close to the general idea of the book.

Near the beginning there was a screen with a 'days to fleet arrival' that seemed to be in months, so the school time, burn out time, etc was drastically shortened.

What is ender's game about?

The movie or the book?