Divide By Zero - a blog by Kamran Ayub

So today on the bus ride home I finished Wyrms by Orson Scott Card. It was recommended on TWiT, so I thought I’d give it a shot.

It was awesome. At the end of the audiobook, Card has a monologue… I can’t tell if it’s part of the actual print edition or not, because at one point he moves into colloquial conversational talk.

Anyway, I like the guy. He was talking about how he came up with the idea for the book and it was because of some sort of game a company was trying to create. Except he thought that they basically just stole everything from Tolkien, there was no originality. So he decided to make a sci-fi meets fantasy story without recycling ideas that Tolkien created. He thought that it was one of his best stories and I’d have to agree. Even though I really enjoyed Ender’s Game, Wyrms felt a lot more epic and reflective.

Orson goes on to say, nay, plea that someone go out there and make a movie. He believes that Wyrms would make a great movie unlike a series like Ender’s Game. He mentions that everyone talks about how Ender’s Game would make a good movie but he dismisses that idea. I agree with him. I think Wyrms would make an amazing movie if done right. It’s totally filmable. In fact, a comic has been released and he remarks that filmmakers could actually pay attention to it because it’s so much like a storyboard. I think I’m going to go find it and buy it, I want to visualize it so much.

If any filmmaker or filmmaker-to-be comes across this post, fame is staring you right in the face. Peter Jackson, I’m looking at you!