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At the end of the audiobook, Card talks at length about the difficulties getting an Ender's Game movie made.

One problem was that the studios always wanted to make Ender an older teenager and to give him a love interest.

Another was that the screenplay was always challenging because most of the book takes place inside Ender's head. Once he figured out that he could tell Ender's thought processes through Bean, it finally opened up the screenplay.



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