Someone’s Trying to Make an Ender’s Game Movie Again (Bleh)

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That’s it. That’s the news. Let me tell you two reasons why I don’t give a shit.

1) The someone is Gavin Hood, director of the atrocious X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie. While by all accounts Wolverine was not just his fault, and Hood won an Oscar for his previous film Tsotsi, Hood is on my shit list (shit directors list, that is) until he proves he wasn’t a one-hit wonder. Because Wolverine was just that bad.

2) Orson Scott Card is an enormous asshole who, as I never get tired of reminding people, advocated overthrowing the U.S. government lest someone legalize gay marriage (the definitive treatise on the subject is here). Now, if you feel gay marriage is wrong and shouldn’t be legal, that’s one thing. But telling people to overthrow the government? That is fucked up. And by the way, he advocated this back in 2008, when Bush was still president, so it wasn’t a Democrat/Republican thing.

Basically, Card is a lunatic and an asshole. As much as I loved Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, I gave away all my Card books because that’s how much he sucks — his personal life is so awful I can no longer enjoy his works. Same with the movie; I sincerely hope it doesn’t get made. Also, I’d like again ask people to send me the most depraved Ender’s Game erotic fan fiction you can find, so I can post it. Thanks to E.J. for the tip. (Via LA Times)