2. Storyline
Now, the fundamental storyline is going to follow what happened in the book, with the primary goal being the salvation of Humanity, though I expect it to happen in a different manner. But so many side plots will fall by the wayside from the book, as always happens, whilst others simply wont be able to effectively communicated to the audience, and that will impact our understanding and attitude towards the characters. Card himself has described a long-standing belief that Enders Game is an unfilmable book, due to the fact that so much of the story works because we can be inside Enders head and understand him, something we wont be able to easily do on screen. Orson Scott Card previously said in 1998 he decided to not to involve the story of Enders siblings Peter and Valentine using the Internet to become involved in politics. Now, whilst that may have something to do with the fact that the perspective which we would view that storyline is very different now to how it was when Card wrote it in the mid-1980s, the fact is that Peter Wiggins entire life comes to be defined by what starts from that in Enders Game, and he rises to become a massive political power in the following books of both the Ender and Shadow sagas, having direct control over Enders, and subsequently Valentines, future. Why do I bring this up? Because of the inevitable sequels. If Enders Game grosses well at the box office, and theres no reason to think that it wont for the masses, then the other books like Speaker for the Dead will without doubt be adapted into follow up films, in the same way that Twilight did and The Hunger Games is setting about at the moment. And the simple fact is that the other books arent about war in space filled with action; theyre far more political, human stories, particularly for Ender and Bean. If Peter Wiggins future isnt kick-started in Enders Game, how can it be utilised for the sequels without butchering the story later on, leaving us with a mess.