As just about everybody knows, this fall will bring a big-budget Ender's Game film adaptation. As many people know, Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card is a hateful homophobe. According to the Huffington Post, protests against the movie are already brewing.

Launched by Geeks OUT, "Skip Ender's Game" asks LGBT rights supports to "keep your money out of Orson Scott Card’s pockets" by opting out of seeing "Ender's Game" in theaters when the film is released in cinemas on Nov. 1. The group is organizing a series of "Skip Ender's Game" events in New York, Orlando, Seattle and other major U.S. cities to coincide with the movie's debut.

Protests against movies do not have a great track record. The protest against The Last Temptation of Christ actually brought that film a lot of business. A proposed boycott of The Avengers over Jack Kirby's treatment by Marvel Comics obviously failed miserably. I think this protest has a chance to gain more traction than some of those examples, but the possibility of a backlash is quite high. And it's obviously not listed on the Skip Ender's Game site, but I would like to preemptively urge protesters to not disrupt screenings of the film, Code Pink-style. That kind of negative attention is something that NOM could use to win sympathy from uninformed people.