Ender's Game the movie... YES!

You have no idea about the level of my excitement!  Ender's Game the Movie!!!

The writers behind Star Trek and first two Transformers movies, screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, have unveiled their involvement in a highly anticipated Sci-Fi alternate reality project: It is an adaptation of a novel by Orson Scott Card called Ender’s Game.  These guys aren't going to be satisfied until they get involved with almost every (semi-)cult TV show or film franchise out there.  Ender's Game is still one of my favorite stories.  Oh man... imagine the sequel, Ender's Shadow.  WOW! For the record, Ender's Shadow is actually the 5th book in the series.  It occurs simultaneously with Ender's Game.

K/O (as they refer to themselves), Kurtzman and Orci, have helped develop a script based off Card’s controversial 1985 work and are shopping it around to studios.  With help from some director named Gavin Hood. He directed X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The word on the street is Hood edited the Ender’s Game screenplay and he saw it as a potential directing project last September.  This is the first talks of K/O getting brought up in the conversation.
Orci tweeted the news last night and confirmed it to Screen Rant. Regardless of what people think about K/O's cinematic and television output quality, it is hard not to praise their work ethic. K/O co-created Fringe with J.J. Abrams; penned Jon Favreau’s comic book genre mashup, Cowboys & Aliens; produce and write for the Hawaii Five-0 series; and are currently working on the first draft of the Star Trek 2 screenplay.

Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender's Game, is about a young kid named Andrew “Ender” Wiggins.  Ender is a pre-teen with a brilliant, yet violent temperament.  Ender's brilliance attracts the attention of the International Fleet (a.k.a. IF) – a planetary organization formed by humans after two deadly attacks by an insectoid alien race known as the Formics (a.k.a. “Buggers”)... think Starship Troopers.  Ender is selected to train at the Battle School after excelling as a new recruit.  The Battle School is an outer space military school used to prepare Earth’s most brilliant children to defend against the next Bugger invasion. Make sense?  Seriously, I think Starship Troopers was inspired by Ender's Game.

"Ender’s Game follows its dangerous protagonist through his experiences at the Battle School, where he excels at training exercises and proves himself to be a ruthless tactical genius. But the mysterious and unseen leaders of the school remain ever watchful of Mr. Wiggins progress – and have much bigger plans for the boy than even he could imagine.

The original book is a multiple-award winner with a devoted following, but has also attracted its share of detractors who criticize how Card justifies young Ender’s brutally destructive but seemingly effective methods and behavior. It’s difficult to not be concerned about how Hood will handle a less than clean-cut character like that – seeing as that the last time he helmed a movie whose protagonist was a loner prone to violent outbursts, the results were… well, the less than well-received Wolverine prequel."

Be sure to get your copy of Ender's Game before it gets popular and overpriced! Ender's Shadow is highly recommended to.