1. New Fans
Yes I know this one will make me sound bitter and twisted, wanting to say I liked that before it was cool, with a derisive tip of my head, but theres more to it than that. New fans coming to a franchise can only help our cause, and I would love it if more people picked up Enders Game and its sequels, or any books by the underrated Orson Scott Card actually, as it can only help to have more people enjoying and wanting science fiction books for those of us that love it. However, if these fans all come along and start making a lot of noise about what generally turns out to be a poor quality spectacle, with mediocre acting or gaping plot holes, then it will become known as another over-hyped, under-whelming new film, which really wont help our cause at all. Worse still, it will make all us existing, genuine Enders Game fans look like a bunch of morons as we get lumped into the new, post-film group with the rest of them. If this film delivers what I expect it to in terms of atmosphere, feel and style, then well likely end up with a bunch of new fans that have never read the book, but say they love it and know everything about it. Theyll probably be of the teenage group due to a seat-filling low age rating at the cinema, which is fine except theyre fickle and lack any credibility thanks to fans of other recent over-hyped, poor quality film sagas. And for us old, original fans of a great sci-fi series, when we say we like Enders Game, it will no longer be one of the only books to ever win both the Hugo and Nebula awards for Science Fiction in the same year (Okay, fine, maybe not everyone knew that) and a defining book of its genre. It will always then be known as that rubbish movie which was hyped up, and will likely be met with a sneer, leaving us having to explain we dont mean that crap, but the original, brilliant books. I know this all makes me sound very negative and dismissive of a film yet to be released, I realise that. And Ill still go and see this movie, at the very least just to see if I was right (and because I have an Unlimited card, so it wont cost me anything either). Ill try and go in with an open mind, and I really do hope they do a good job with this film; I want to like it and see a book I adore brought to life, and I can live with it not being quite how I pictured it in my head. But with everything I know about it, I doubt very much Ill walk out of the cinema in six months time feeling anything but disappointment and resent at an opportunity missed. And with that, I think Ill go and read the books again