Category: young adult novel

Ender’s Game Trailer, Will it Be a Hit

70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion (http://www.imdb.com).

I’m wondering if this film is riding on the coat tales of “After Earth” with Will and Jaden Smith.  I think yes.  It is too coincidental that they have young male leads in outer space but will it do as well in the theaters?  It is going against the new addition to the “Hunger Games” series “Catching Fire”.  It is out several weeks before the other and has a similar yet completely different story line.  Though the adolescent characters are equally placed in life threatening situations “Ender’s Game is way more sci-fi in the sense that it is set in outer space in Star Trek like proportions.  What are your thoughts?  Does it have what it takes to rock your world?