>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

>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.