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Oct. 8th, 2013 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coyotegothI've been seeing a lot of people lately saying that there's no harm in seeing Ender's Game- that, as Card has already been paid for the screen rights, they won't be putting further money in his pocket. Aside from the fact that I'm not at all certain that that's true- he's a credited producer on the movie- there's the question of rights of further novels being purchased to consider. When Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was adapted to the screen in 1982, it's safe to say that no one in Hollywood had heard of Philip K. Dick (who died before Blade Runner was released). However, while Blade Runner wasn't a box office smash, it got an enormous amount of critical attention, not to mention huge home video/DVD/BluRay sales. Result: over a dozen Dick stories and novels have been optioned since then, and made into movies by people such as Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Even if, say, the Alvin Maker series hasn't been optioned yet- enough ticket/DVD/BluRay sales, and it will be.
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