{"id":34402,"date":"2008-04-23T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2013-03-16T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T16:54:41","slug":"wolfgang-petersen-quits-playing-enders-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2008\/04\/wolfgang-petersen-quits-playing-enders-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Petersen Quits Playing &#8220;Ender&#8217;s Game&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s Overstreet Quiz Question:<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Overstreet has nieces and nephews named after which of the following fantasy-novel characters?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ender of Orson Scott Card\u2019s <em>Ender\u2019s Game<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Daeneris of George R. R. Martin\u2019s <em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Phinehas of J.K. Rowling\u2019s <em>Harry Potter<\/em> stories<\/li>\n<li>Atreides \u2013 the family name of the messianic Paul in Frank Herbert\u2019s <em>Dune<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Auralia of Jeffrey\u2019s own novel <em>Auralia\u2019s Colors<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make your guess!<\/p>\n<p>And, while this should not influence your answer, <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/381714\/wolfgang-peterson-off-enders-game\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">note io9\u2019s report<\/a> that Wolfgang Petersen is no longer working on an adaptation of <em>Ender\u2019s Game<\/em>. Hmmm\u2026 if I recall correctly, Ron Howard, M. Night Shyamalan, and Wolfgang Petersen have all, at one time or another, been connected to this project.<\/p>\n<p>Who would you choose as the ideal director for <em>Ender\u2019s Game<\/em>?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s Overstreet Quiz Question: Jeffrey Overstreet has nieces and nephews named after which of the following fantasy-novel characters? Ender of Orson Scott Card\u2019s Ender\u2019s Game Daeneris of George R. R. Martin\u2019s A Song of Ice and Fire Phinehas of J.K. 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