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I think adapting the original Ender's Game novella rather than the novel would have made a lot of sense and would have made for a much tighter movie. I think t
by curtis 10y ago
I think adapting the original Ender's Game novella rather than the novel would have made a lot of sense and would have made for a much tighter movie. I think there's just too much stuff in the full novel and trying to cram it all into the film made it impossible to pace things well.
I've long been of the opinion that novella-length stories are the best match for movie length (2-ish hours) adaptations and that novels usually just have too much stuff for a faithful adaptation. The Ender's Game movie just happens to be a really good recent example.
- ghaff 10y agoI confess to having forgotten it became a novel after it was a novella :-) (I did read the sequels--with declining interest as I went along.)
- dTal 10y ago>I think adapting the original Ender's Game novella rather than the novel would have made a lot of sense and would have made for a much tighter movie. Was that not what they did? Having read the novella but not the novel, I don't particularly remember any scenes I didn't recognise... As to shorter stories being easier to adapt than longer ones, I have often thought the same - though I would strengthen that to "short stories" rather than "novellas", especially when it comes to sci-fi.