If you're unfamiliar with Ender's Game, be sure to go to your local bookstore and pick up a copy of it today. It's a phenomenal Sci-Fi book, penned by Orson Scott Card. It's a book I couldn't put down, and blew through it within a day. The story really lends itself to the big screen and it's something that fans have been wanting for quite some time.
While the studios have had an Ender's Game movie in the works for the past 4 years, it hasn't really gone anywhere. They've changed directors, swapped dates, and as we reported not too long ago, Gavin Hood is now attempting to bring this project back to life. Apparently the wait has taken too long for one fan, so he decided to created his own movie trailer to show us all what a film adaptation of this classic story could look like.
YouTuber stevendavishoops613 has taken video and audio from a few different sources: Star Trek, Star Wars episodes I and II, Starship Troopers, Serenity, Soldier, Tron: Legacy, Trailers for Halo: Reach, Trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Live Free or Die Hard, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. It's a pretty impressive feat, but what makes this more amazing...it was all done on iMovie. Yeah, a free editing program.
It just goes to show that creativity and effort can have a stronger effect on your projects than the best software. If you're still confused as to the story I'll give you the synopsis from the back of the book...then you too can join the ranks of fans eagerly awaiting this movie:
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn’t make the cut-young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender’s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender’s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.
-Jordan
