{"id":163409,"date":"2023-06-24T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T10:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/it-had-a-luxury-cast-an-extraordinary-story-and-a-script-ready-for-a-second-film-that-was-never-made\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T10:13:45","slug":"it-had-a-luxury-cast-an-extraordinary-story-and-a-script-ready-for-a-second-film-that-was-never-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/it-had-a-luxury-cast-an-extraordinary-story-and-a-script-ready-for-a-second-film-that-was-never-made\/","title":{"rendered":"It had a luxury cast, an extraordinary story and a script ready for a second film that was never made."},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are countless times when Hollywood launches a movie with the clear intention of being the start of a long franchise to then crash at the box office<\/strong> and that this attempt at a saga never goes beyond the first film. Today we are going to talk about one of them, taking advantage of the fact that this afternoon it is broadcast on Cuatro starting at 5:50 p.m.<\/p>\n

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The movie I’m talking about is ‘Ender’s Game’, an adaptation of the successful science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card<\/strong> published for the first time in 1985. At first there was interest in taking it to the big screen, but the project did not really get off the ground until the signing of Gavin Hood<\/strong> in 2010 to write and direct the film. A surprising choice, since he had just signed the horrible ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’.<\/p>\n

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In this way, the six different versions of the script that Card himself had written over the years were put aside to bet on a more ambitious version in which Hood wanted to shoot ‘Ender’s Game’ at the same time as the adaptation. of ‘Ender’s Shadow’<\/strong>a novel by Card himself published 14 years later and which takes place in parallel to ‘Ender’s Game’.<\/p>\n

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However, there was no money necessary for it, but Hood did have time to prepare the script for ‘Ender’s Shadow’ with the hope of being able to shoot it when ‘Ender’s Game’ swept the box office. To achieve this, it had a generous budget of 110 million dollars, a luxurious cast (a ESA Mariposa<\/strong> straight out of ‘The Invention of Hugo’, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Hailee Steinfeld, and Abigail Breslin<\/strong>) and the fact of telling an extraordinary story that had already triumphed in the form of a novel. It seemed like a sure hit but ended up being a huge flop.<\/p>\n

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Shortly before the premiere came the first big problem for ‘Ender’s Game’, as there was a call to boycott the film due to statements that Card had made against gay marriage<\/strong> years before. The writer did not apologize but he did release a statement stating that his opinions did not matter taking into account the position that the Supreme Court had adopted at that time.<\/p>\n

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