Orson Scott Card won’t see profits from the Ender’s Game movie
http://thedissolve.com/news/806-orson-scott-card-wont-see-profits-from-the-enders-/More than 11,000 people have signed a petition pledging to skip the new film adaptation of Ender’s Game because of the history of homophobic statements from the novel’s author, Orson Scott Card. Supporting the movie, they argue, is a tacit endorsement of his views, and puts money into the pocket of a vocal opponent of gay rights. In the months leading up to the film’s release, members of the Ender’s Game creative team have done their best to distance themselves from Card and his attitudes. Last June, director Gavin Hood stated in an interview that he loves the book and disagrees with its author. “Frequently artists create something that is better and more insightful than their own particular point of view on some issue,” Hood said. “We have a great piece of art and we have the artist behind the art saying things that seem to be extremely bigoted. But they’re not the book. The book is the book and Orson’s views are his views.”
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“Multiple sources from both inside and outside the companies that produced the Ender’s Game film–distributor Summit Entertainment, visual effects company Digital Domain and book-rights holder OddLot Entertainment–tell TheWrap that Card’s fee has already been paid through a decade-old deal that includes no backend.”
Essentially, Card was paid for the rights to his book and that’s it. Of course, Card still earns money from sales of his original novel, and with all the attention focused on the Ender’s Game movie, there’s renewed attention on Card’s book. TheWrap suggests if you want to boycott something, you refuse to buy a copy of the book instead.
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so that's the definitive word, boycotting the movie is hurting the actors and creative talent therein.. not Orson Scott Card
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was Oscar-worthy.
So, there you go. 
He's available for press, the studio doesn't seem to dislike the publicity.
I suppose he's not going to sell any of these movie-tie in reissues of Ender's Game either. 
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/enders-game-card-orson-scott/1115568233?ean=9780765338143
I hate to spoil it for you, but I don't want any DU'er to die earlier than necessary. It's one of the most horrifically unhealthy things you can eat. Sadly, you can say that about many of my favorites.
If anyone is getting any back end it's Ford and Kingsley and they don't need the money. So the only people getting "hurt" are the producers and the studio, and maybe if the film tanks they'll think twice before giving Card any more money.
Card is not just your run of the mill homophobe. The man believes that being gay should be ILLEGAL. HE also believes that anyone who disagrees with his is MENTALLY ILL...
So if you would like to go see this assholes book as a movie just remember he thinks you are mentally ill.
Here:
2008: In 2008, Card published his most controversial anti-gay screed yet, in the Mormon Times, where he argued that gay marriage “marks the end of democracy in America,” that homosexuality was a “tragic genetic mixup,” and that allowing courts to redefine marriage was a slippery slope towards total homosexual political rule and the classifying of anyone who disagreed as “mentally ill:”
A term that has mental-health implications (homophobe) is now routinely applied to anyone who deviates from the politically correct line. How long before opposing gay marriage, or refusing to recognize it, gets you officially classified as “mentally ill”
Remember how rapidly gay marriage has become a requirement. When gay rights were being enforced by the courts back in the ’70s and ’80s, we were repeatedly told by all the proponents of gay rights that they would never attempt to legalize gay marriage.
It took about 15 minutes for that promise to be broken. …
If a court declared that from now on, “blind” and “sighted” would be synonyms, would that mean that it would be safe for blind people to drive cars?
No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships thesame as the coupling between a man and a woman.
This is a permanent fact of nature.
Card went on to advocate for, literally, a straight people’s insurrection against a pro-gay government:
[W]hen government is the enemy of marriage, then the people who are actually creating successful marriages have no choice but to change governments, by whatever means is made possible or necessary… Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down….
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/07/sci_fi_icon_orson_scott_card_hates_fan_fiction_the_homosexual_agenda_partner/
Hey Fishwax this wasn't directed at you I meant to reply to the OP.. Sorry! 
