While I'm certainly extremely fond of Ender's Game, and think a movie adaptation of it could be a significant contribution to the filmography of the internet, I am somewhat concerned about the project in Gavin Hood's hands. Tsotsi and Wolverine make for a significantly mixed track record. I thought Wolverine was particularly egregious as a failure because the source material is so rich. The movie was overwrought, emotionally unsubtle. The romance in particular was exceptionally cloying. The minor characters introduced in it were throwaways, given no real spark or energy like they were in the X-Men trilogy, with the exceptions of Deadpool and Gambit, who were speedily and wastefully dispatched. And it was often quite an ugly picture.
Any of those missteps would doom Ender's Game. Almost the entire movie takes place in institutional space, but that doesn't mean it can look unspecific or boring. The light-tracking system, the scoreboard, and of course the Battle Room are critically important details. The Game has to feel astonishingly emotionally attuned. If the movie fails with any of the significant minor characters, and there are many, the plot may fall into a shambles. I wouldn't necessarily want to bet on whether Ender's Game or Wolverine are better-loved, but they're both projects that mean an enormous amount to lots of people. We live in an age when bad adaptations can be erased or supplanted, but given how difficult it's been to get an Ender's Game movie off the ground at all, I'd so prefer for the first time to be a charm.