Not knowing anything about the franchise, the trailer has me interested. I like alien invasion/'today we celebrate our independence day type' movies so I'll probably see this. If only to see jets flying around in the sky and spaceships doing their thing. The only dodgy thing about this is kids.

I couldn't care less about who wrote the books this is based on, or about their personal politics. Most people we meet in life are going to say or think things that we disagree with, and rummage around enough in any closet and I'm sure we'll find something dumbass, racist, sexist or selfish things either said or done. You can't really be absolutionists about these things, and so you end up being selective with your outrage, or worst, obliviously prejudiced.

It's very depressing that everyone has to inject politics into one of the most fascinating books of my childhood.

FWIW, Speaker was better.

I'm currently reading the book and really bloody enjoying it.

Yea I don't like OSC but I enjoyed the book a lot so I'll probably end up watching the film.

Some things to note are that they completely scrapped out the whole Valentine and Peter part of the book. Which sucks because it was one of my favourite parts, but I guess they would have some trouble keeping it all in and having it make sense. Also the star (Asa Butterfield) did an AMA on reddit a few days ago. He said that they keep in the children death parts, but the movie is rated PG-13 so that kind of speaks for itself.

What's going to be missing is the age jump. In the trailer, we see a teen Ender. Ender at 6, at 10, undergoing all this is where the movie will probably deviate the most. Seeing a 6 year old kill a classmate, kicking him over and over when he's down...

As for Val, I suspect we'll see her part and Petra's be rather large, to make up for the all male cast.