Yes, I will be seeing Ender’s Game this weekend. Yes I realize Orson Scott Card is a homophobic bag of dicks.

He’s not getting a dime from the movie box office.

Of course he’ll make money as book sales are going up. But, it’s one of my probably two favorite books of all time (The Other being Canticle for Leibowitz). It’s a book I reread maybe once a decade and that I give some credit for helping me survive being a teen. It’s a book I unreservedly recommend to anyone.

You can be an asshole and still write great books.

I’ve been looking forward to this movie for years. I didn’t think it would ever be made, honestly.

And if this movie tanks, Orson Scott Card will still be in more or less the same position as he was at the start. Others might not be, though. Asa Butterfield is still up and coming as far as Hollywood is concerned. If the movie does poorly that might stall his career. And there are a helluva lot more people involved with this movie.

Card had no creative control. So that means Gavin Hood (who directed and wrote the screenplay) put up Ender’s Game the way he saw it.

Frankly I was shocked when I found out how much of a raging homophobe Card is; most of his books don’t show that. I think as he’s gotten older he’s gotten more rigid and curmudgeonly.

You can send me hate if you want, call me wrong. You’re entitled to your opinion as well as anyone else. Still seeing the movie this weekend.