Awkward. Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment have taken the young adult sci-fi film “Ender’s Game” to Comic-Con to market it to the masses. And the first question to come out of the mouths of audiences? Asking how involved “Ender’s Game” author Orson Scott Card is in the making of the movie. Card has stirred major unwanted controversy around the movie with his bigoted anti-gay comments, something that Lionsgate is doing their best to distance themselves from, and they were probably hoping no on would ask at the gigantic, supposed-to-be-light trade show.
“I would hate to see the efforts of all the people who made this movie thwarted for the less than 1% of the people behind the movie,” producer Robert Orci said the issue, “particularly because the message of the book and the movie is tolerance, compassion and empathy.” Oh, the irony (footage from the panel below via Film Drunk).
