In an interview with Reuters, Harrison Ford talked a bit about what attracted him to Ender’s Game.
Q: In November, you star in “Ender’s Game.” Your character mentors a child who is training to be a military specialist and fight future alien invasions. Were you familiar with the book?
A: I was unaware of the book until the script came along and I was asked to be involved. The book was written 28 years ago and is remarkably pressing in terms of the things that are part of modern warfare. Also the questions of moral responsibility for military leadership, the questions involving young people in warfare, manipulating children possibly for the good of mankind – that’s pretty heady stuff.
Q: Do you have any thoughts about those things as they relate to today’s world news?
A: I’m real interested in what’s going on in the world. I have personal feelings and opinions, but it’s not the opinions that drive my participation. I participate in things because I have an emotional recognition in the scenes that I’m reading about that’s beyond subject and is about human behavior.
Ford can be seen in a new movie out this week called Paranoia also starring Gary Oldman and Liam Hemsworth.
Source: Chicago Tribune
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