Ender’s Game, w/ Alexander McCoy (2013)
A high-budget sci-fi meditation on strategy, morality, peace, and war.
“When I understand my enemy well enough to defeat him, then in that moment, I also love him.” So begins the 2013 film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s classic sci-fi novel Ender’s Game.
This movie had a large budget ($110 million) and a stacked cast, including Harrison Ford, Viola Davis, and Hailee Steinfeld. Yet, it was a flop at the box office and got…