How did Card agree to this?

Rating: 3/10 (19 January 2014)

I recently finished the audio book of Ender's Game and I thought it was really great. At the end of the book Card was talking about how they wanted to make a movie for a long time but the movie people kept changing Ender to a teenager (while in the book I think he is 6?) and trying to include a love story line, etc, making it a generic flick for the masses. He was talking about how he refused to agree to all these terms and how he was almost cheated into such an agreement with including contradictory clauses in the movie contract and so on. And now this? I don't get it. I'm pretty sure this is exactly the movie he didn't wanted Ender's Game to be.
I had to explain to my wife what's going on, because the movie is so condensed and compressed that unless you read the book you will not know what's going on. If you read the book the movie is a pain to watch because it just doesn't work. Again a typical case of "Hey, we don't really know what to do with the story so let's throw on a bunch of CGI stuff cause it looks good". The story seems to take about 2-3 months all in all when in the book the story spans a few years.
I wish AMC made a series out of it. Could have been so much better.