An Ender's Game Sequel Anyone?

Director Gavin Hood's epic film adaptation of author Orson Scott Card's book Ender's Game may have won the weekend box office crown...but the $110 million budgeted film garnered mediocre reviews, and a respectable $28 million US opening. That's not enough to guarantee a sequel, especially since early international openings indicate the global market isn't likely to pick up any domestic slack.

The other issue is that Card's sequel novel, "Speaker for the Dead," is a whole different story that is set 3,000 years after the events of 'Ender'. A solution for that particular problem is in the works though as Card is said to be currently writing a novel that will serve as a more traditional sequel.

Hood tells Hero Complex that a sequel, if it were to get a green lit it would more than likely focus its action elsewhere:

"[Would I make a sequel is] a great question, but I think it’s such a difficult one to answer, because the sequel ‘Speaker for the Dead’ takes place 3,000 years after, so we’re in an interesting place. I think we have to hope that audiences respond to the film… And Orson is apparently writing something that’s more of a direct follow called "Fleet School". Obviously, from the studio’s point of view, they’d almost certainly want to move the characters from this film into the next journey. So it may be that ‘Speaker for the Dead’ is not the sequel now."

Card says that "Fleet School" deals directly with the fallout at the end of "Ender's Game":

"[The new book is] for a YA audience, but it’s about what happens to Battle School after the International Fleet loses its purpose of war. It becomes what is called Fleet School and it prepares kids to be commanders [and] explorers in the colonies that are forming.[We] get to see as the school administrators repurpose the school. The Battle Room is still there, but it’s a whole different kind of education.

Analysts say the chances of a sequel are slim to none