History Trivia / EndersGame

** [[SatomiSato Petra Arkanian is]] [[Manga/{{KON}} Ritsu Tainaka]] and [[Anime/QueensBlade Laila]].

** [[KenjiNomura Sgt. Dap is]] [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Iron Tager]] and [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Yammy]].

** [[RyuzaburoOtomo Admiral Chamrajnagar is]] [[Manga/DragonBall Dabura]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE Lord Ezelcant]]

* PlayingWithCharacterType: Harrison Ford is known for playing heroic characters, among them [[Film/StarWars Han Solo]], a JerkWithAHeartOfGold that was likable. Ford's portrayal of Graff is just the opposite - a cold, calculating figure that isn't concerned for the safety of his cadets so much as he's concerned with exterminating an alien race.

* {{Defictionalization}}: The job description for a Speaker for the Dead is to do historical and narrative research into the dead person's life, and then get up at the funeral and tell the deceased's life story-as ''they'' would've told it. OSC reports that people have started to do this in RealLife, and that it is [[TearJerker just as powerful]] as you might imagine. He allegedly wants someone to speak at his funeral.

** The ''Shadow'' books were originally going to be written by different authors, each centering on a different member of Ender's friends.

* {{Defictionalization}}: The job description for a Speaker for the Dead is to do historical and narrative research into the dead person's life, and then get up at the funeral and tell the deceased's life story-as ''they'' would've told it. OSC reports that people have started to do this in RealLife, and that it is [[TearJerker just as powerful]] as you might imagine.
** Card allegedly wants someone to speak at his funeral.

* InspirationForTheWork: Orson Scott Card got the idea for ''Ender's Game'' as a kid, when he tried to theorize what the military of the future would use to train soldiers in space, thus imagining the Battle Room. That manifested into the original short story, but the full novel didn't emerge until he was trying to decide who would be the protagonist of ''Speaker for the Dead'', until his wife suggested it could be Ender.

* EnforcedMethodActing: The film was shot in sequence with Ford keeping his distance from Butterfield and the other kids at first so that their being in awe of The Harrison Ford would work for rather than against the story (as would their natural growth cycles).

** SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Is scheduled for a proper release by the end of 2013.

* DevelopmentHell: The film was mired there for decades. Unusually, Card was partially involved in keeping it there, as he didn't want the movie made until the script was solid, and unless they found a child actor who could do justice to the central role.

* DevelopmentHell: For decades.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Jake Lloyd]] as Ender and DakotaFanning as Petra. And yes, Card knew of how hated Lloyd was and felt a better script would have done him justice.

** Card suggested that the scenes for the POVSequel ''Ender's Shadow'' could be filmed at the same time as ''Ender's Game'', but there has been no mention of ''Shadow'' being developed.

** At one point during the film's production, effects studio DigitalDomain (''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''Film/RealSteel'') were co-producers.

* InspirationForTheWork: Orson Scott Card got the idea for ''Ender's Game'' as a kid, when he tried to theorize what the military of the future would use to train soldiers in space, thus imagining the Battle Room.

** At one point during the film's production, effects studio DigitalDomain (''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''RealSteel'') were co-producers.

** At one point during the film's production, effects studio DigitalDomain (''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''RealSteal'') were co-producers.

** At one point during the film's production, effects studio DigitalDomain (''Film/{{Transformers}}'', ''RealSteell'') were co-producers.

** In one draft, Colonel Graff and Mazer Rackham [[CompositeCharacter were the same character]].