<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container click-to-enlarge"><div class="image"><a title_source="Summit Entertainment" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5273bfcf6bb3f76223c39d55-960/enders-game-asa-butterfield-3.jpg"><span class="click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5273bfcf6bb3f76223c39d55-1200-600/enders-game-asa-butterfield-3.jpg?maxX=800" border="0" alt="enders game asa butterfield" width="800" /></a><p class="source">Summit Entertainment</p></div><p></p></div>"<keyword id="1392475" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Enders-Game">Ender's Game</keyword>" is out in theaters today.</p>
<p>It's taken a long 28 years for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312853238" target="_blank">Orson Scott Card's sci-fi flick</a> about children fighting an alien war to come to theaters.</p>
<p>Even tougher than getting "Ender's Game" on screen - <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/10/cardqa/" target="_blank">nearly six versions of the script have been written</a> - is getting a hold of Card for an interview.</p>
<p>So it was a big surprise to see he gave a lengthy interview to <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/10/cardqa/" target="_blank">Wired Magazine</a>.</p>
<p class="p1">In it he discusses everything from problems with filming battleroom sequences, the Challenger explosion, to being a Mormon, and working on a sequel.</p>
<p class="p1">Other than the sequel news, most interesting is Card has to say about the film adaptation of his classic 1985 young adult series - that it was never meant to be made into a movie.</p>
<p class="p1">An excerpt <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/10/cardqa/" target="_blank">from Wired</a>:</p>
<p class="no-margin" style="padding-left: 30px;">As it's written, <em>Ender's Game</em> is unadaptable. The book takes place entirely inside Ender's head. If you don't know what Ender is thinking, he's just an incredibly violent little kid and not terribly interesting. You have to find ways to externalize what he's thinking. But he can't be the kind of person who explains himself to other people. That would weaken him.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">With all my scripts, if you had read <em>Ender's Game</em> you would say, wow, he nailed it. But if you hadn't read the book, then you would have no idea what all the fuss was about.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">I finally wrote a script that worked for people who had never read the book, and it was a buddy-movie approach-bringing the character of Bean, Ender's friend and sidekick, to the front and making him a foil, somebody Ender can talk to as an equal. That was proof of concept.</p>
<p class="p1">For what it's worth, Card is completely right. It seems like an extremely tough book to adapt.</p>
<p class="p1">How are you supposed to showcase someone's thoughts on the big screen? The book doesn't only take place primarily in Ender's head, but from other character's perspectives as well.</p>
<p class="p1">The Lionsgate Summit film cost <a href="http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=endersgame.htm" target="_blank">$110 million to make</a> and is expected to make around $30 million opening weekend.</p>
<p class="p1">Watch a preview for "Ender's Game" below:</p>
<p class="p1">You need to make changes that make sense then while still staying true to the source material.</p>
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Orson Scott Card: ''Ender's Game' Is Unadaptable' As A Movie

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56f329e2dd0895bb138b485c-3535-2480/rtsbvks.jpg" alt="brussels military" data-mce-source="Vincent Kessler/Reuters" /><p class="source"><span>Vincent Kessler/Reuters</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>While the world mourns those who died in the March 2016 attacks in Brussels, police are hard at work piecing together the terrorists' plot.</p><p>One thing Brussels authorities seem to have figured out, however, is the type of explosives suicide bombers set off during the attacks.</p><p>Frederic Van Leeuw, Belgium's chief prosecutor in the case, told reporters on Wednesday that investigators found 33 pounds of homemade explosives at a house used by the two bombers who struck Brussels Airport, according to the <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/36a82771dc974fa58447bf795ccc1211/latest-german-security-chief-freer-information-exchange">Associated Press</a>. Those two explosions, combined with a third in Belgium's subway, injured at least 270 people and left 34 dead.</p><p>Police also found nails - presumably to serve as shrapnel - and other raw materials for making explosive vests at the residence, according to <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-brussels-attacks-20160323-story.html">The Chicago Tribune</a>.</p><p><strong>The key explosive ingredient discovered, said Van Leeuw, is a compound called triacetone triperoxide, or TATP -</strong> a crystalline powder that is a nightmare to terrorists as well as authorities.</p><h2>An unstable white powder</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table full"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5649f44ddd0895d4198b4583-1164-954/acetone-peroxide.jpg" alt="acetone peroxide triacetone triperoxide" data-mce-source="Public domain" data-link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acetone_peroxide.jpg" /><p class="source"><span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acetone_peroxide.jpg">Public domain</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>TATP is easy to make and hard to detect, but is also incredibly unstable. In fact, all it takes is a firm tap to explode TATP with a force that's about 80% as strong as TNT. (Which is why it has gained an infamous reputation as "the Mother of Satan" among terrorists who make it, <a href="http://thefutureofthings.com/3035-tatp-countering-the-mother-of-satan/">according to The Future of Things</a>.)</p><p>The infamous "shoe bomber" used TATP in 2001, as did terrorists in London in 2005 and 2006. The chemical was also in bombs detonated at the University of Oklahoma in 2005 and Texas City in 2006, <a href="http://www.northeastern.edu/alert/assets/F1_p5_Oxley_Smith_3.pdf">according to explosives researchers at Northeastern University</a>.</p><p>And, most recently, it was used in the November 2015 terrorist <a href="http://www.techinsider.io/paris-attack-tatp-chemical-bombs-2015-11">attacks on Paris</a>.</p><p>"TATP and other explosives of the peroxide family are used extensively by terrorist organizations around the world because they are easy to prepare and very difficult to detect," Ehud Keinan, a chemist at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, said in a <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/terrorists-beware-device-identifies-previously-undetectable-explosives-54005862.html">2005 press release</a> about his research of the chemical.</p><p>You might recognize two chemicals in TATP's full name - tri<strong>acetone </strong>tri<strong>peroxide</strong> - because they're ingredients you can find in your local pharmacy's cosmetics and first aid aisles.</p><p>"TATP can be easily prepared in a basement lab using commercially available starting materials," <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/tatp.htm">according to GlobalSecurity.org</a>, which also notes "it's easy to blow yourself up when you make it."</p><p>Jimmie Oxley, an explosives researcher at the University of Rhode Island, told Tech Insider by email last year that making TATP is as easy as "baking a cake."</p><p>"We have done a lot of work trying to prevent its synthesis," wrote Oxley, who has experimented with adding trace chemicals to hydrogen peroxide in hopes of foiling TATP's homemade production. "It isn't easy to do and the ingredients are very common."</p><h2>Chemistry of a nightmare</h2><p>One reason TATP is difficult to detect is because it does not contain nitrogen, a key component of homemade "fertilizer" bombs that security scanners are now very good at finding.</p><p>Each molecule contains only hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon <span>-</span> some of the most common elements on Earth - shaped in a ring.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5649f44ddd0895d4198b4584-1013-1100/acetone-peroxide-trimer-3d-balls.png" alt="Acetone peroxide triacetone triperoxide TATP" data-mce-source="Public domain" data-link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acetone-peroxide-trimer-3D-balls.png" /><p class="source"><span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acetone-peroxide-trimer-3D-balls.png">Public domain</a></span></p><p class="caption">A chemical model of triacetone triperoxide (TATP). It's made of oxygen (red), carbon (black), and hydrogen (white).</p></div><p></p></div></div>The explosive power of TATP has puzzled scientists since its discovery in 1895. Unlike nitrogen-based bomb materials, which store up energy as they're cooked into explosive form, TATP can be made at room temperature - no flames required.</p><p>So where does it get its explosive energy, if not by heating?</p><p>It wasn't until 2005 that Keinan figured out detonating TATP is more like a massive air blast than a fire bomb. When a crystal of the explosive is rattled hard enough, each solid molecule instantly breaks into four gas molecules.</p><p>"Although the gas is at room temperature, it has the same density as the solid, and four times as many molecules, so it has 200 times the pressure of the surrounding air," according to the release about <a href="http://tx.technion.ac.il/~keinanj/pub/122.pdf">Keinan and his colleagues' 2005 study of TATP</a>.</p><p>"This enormous pressure - one-[and-a-half] tons per square inch - then pushes outward, creating an explosive force" that's on par with TNT, states the release.</p><p>"<strong>In a TATP explosion, the gas molecules give up their energy of motion to the surroundings, in the process creating the shock wave that does the damage</strong>."</p><h2>Can we detect it?</h2><p>Scientists are now working feverishly to create practical ways to find TATP before it can be used to kill innocent people.</p><p>ACRO Security Technologies, a company founded by Keinan, has created a disposable marker-size "peroxide explosives tester," or ACRO-P.E.T.</p><p>"The ACRO-P.E.T. provides an immediate answer to whether a suspicious material that has been discovered somewhere ... contains even minute quantities of a peroxide-based explosive," Keinan told <a href="http://thefutureofthings.com/3035-tatp-countering-the-mother-of-satan/">The Future of Things</a>.</p><p>Other researchers are working on ways to find TATP when it's being transported, and without the need for a direct chemical test like Keinan's device.</p><p>In 2011, for example, scientists at Hitachi in Japan created a machine that sucks in air from around a passenger and - in two seconds - <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rcm.5147/full">can sniff out minute traces of TATP</a>.</p><p>A German research group also <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/prep.201500011/full ">announced in 2015</a> that large amounts of TATP can be detected in transit. 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