If you're interested in trying to find the novelization, try your local library's Interlibrary Loan service. I requested it through mine and a contributing library sent my library their copy.
The novel does, indeed, go into some detail explaining where the hyper intelligent ants came from. The ending is still rather cryptic, though.
"The novel does, indeed, go into some detail explaining where the hyper intelligent ants came from. The ending is still rather cryptic, though."
Can you please explain? :)
The origin of the ants, and I'm only going on memory here, is that there was kind of war in space. That some form of light energy from this conflagration escaped and made its way to Earth. That then accelerated the evolution of the ants.
As for the ending, the only part I remember that was radically different is I believe it has something about a radio voice saying clear all channels and that Phase V had started.
I haven't read this novel, but I know the original short story "The Empire of the Ants" by H.G. Wells, which was the inspiration for this movie. - You can find it also online:
http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/2881/
With each day the amount of people on my Ignore list is growing.
There was a movie based on the same short story with the same title. It, too, has little to do with Wells's original. Actually, for a film inspired it, it's not that bad. Like Phase IV, it's a good "based on the story by" attempt.
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