Posted on 11/01/2013 10:03:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Orson Scott Card, the outspokenly homophobic author of the book Ender's Game, won't get any of the box office money from the movie that opens tomorrow. So is there still cause for boycott?
Though there has been a call to boycott the film over Card's support of anti-gay causes, Josh Dickey of The Wrap reported yesterday evening that Card will not benefit—at least not directly—from the film's success. Sources "both inside and outside the companies that produced the" movie confirmed to Dickey that Card gets no back-end on the movie, and has already been paid the money he will get from the adaptation through a "decade-old deal." Card's deal for the movie, which lingered in development for many years, was done long ago, and Dickey explained that, by the time the iteration of the project that finally made it to the screen got underway, "Card’s involvement, both creative and financial, had dissolved to virtually nil."
Card has a producing credit, but he wasn't involved in the film creatively, Dickey reports. That goes in contrast to authors like J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins, who made deals that gave them a say in the filmmakers' decisions and kept the money flowing. (For what it's worth, director Gavin Hood told us in an interview earlier this month that he did have to meet with Card, "because he had approval rights on the director and they were hiring me as a writer director.") Of course, the success of a film will likely drive book sales, with some of those going to Card.
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I hope everyone skips the movie and buys the books.
Hey if queers want to boycott the movie that’s their right and I support it, after all there are movies starring certain outspoken liberal, anti American nut jobs whose careers I will never pay to support. I believe we all have the individual right to chose not to support a group or person.
I’m waiting for this cold so I can see it starry-eyed in IMAX.
I meant to say waiting for this cold to leave me.
I doubt if he’s “homophobic”. He’s Mormon and no doubt has values and standards but I can’t picture him having a phobia about homos.
It was going to be a failcot anyway, like the Chic-fil-a boycott that backfired.
They say that like it's a bad thing.
May be the first movie I actually pay to see in decades.
In the meantime, while you’re getting over your cold, buck up!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ToNJHgp-w
The Chic-Fil-A buycott was amazing to see.
Silly liberal......DISGUST is not a phobia
Anybody brave enough for the bumper sticker?
Or, if you want to be starry eyed while listening to something Iron Maidenish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz9VyggeSbA
I have had the books for decades. I still want to see the film.
You got a problem with that?
I won't speculate why you are presumptuous and feel entitled to provide stupid unsolicited advice. But I have a good idea.
If I’m afraid of heights or spiders, I run away from them when I see them. Somehow I doubt the people who are always called “homophobic” see a homosexual and run away. It’s a nonsense word that doesn’t apply. If people object morally to homosexuality, it’s no different from someone telling people they shouldn’t smoke. Are they tobaccophobics?
People are so gullible. Chik Fil-A stopped being against gay marriage in 2010 and even gay activists now admit it’s A-Ok with them.
forget it by the comic book version.
I just finished the first one. After reading it I am not sure I want to see the movie anymore. I don't think they can do it justice.
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