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Category: Ender’s Game
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Orbit Books Releases UK ‘Ender’s Game’ Movie Tie-in Cover
Orbit Books, the UK publisher for Ender’s Game has released the brand new movie tie-in cover for the book. The new edition will go on sale October 3, 2013 and can be pre-ordered on Amazon. If you compare this book cover to the newly released international one-sheet, you can see there’s a slight change in the center. There are no formic ships on this poster, they’ve instead been replaced with human fighter planes.
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New Movie Tie-In Books: ‘Ender’s Game’ Cover and Box Set
Although there’s already a movie tie-in cover for Ender’s Game, TOR Books will be releasing the movie tie-in edition with an updated cover to be available October 1.
This new Ender’s Game movie tie-in edition features the final one sheet with the soldier facing forward.
In addition, Barnes & Noble has updated their movie tie-in box set items with a photo of the box! Looks pretty cool! This set includes Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon. This can be pre-ordered on Amazon as well.
But wait, there’s more! They also have a separate box set that includes Ender’s Game, Ender in Exile, and Speaker for the Dead. Pre-order from Amazon.
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VIDEO: Gavin Hood On Making Ender’s Game an Unusual YA Movie
Another wonderful interview with Ender’s Game director Gavin Hood! I have to say, the more of these I see, the more excited I get for this movie. Gavin talks to MoviesDotCom about making Ender’s Game a Young Adult movie (PG-13!) that doesn’t talk down to kids, how he tried to incorporate epic scifi elements as well as the intimate character story, why he cut Locke and Demosthenes, and his stance on possible sequels.
Source: MoviesDotComOfficial on Youtube
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Gavin Hood On the “Queer Irony” of Ender’s Game
In the ongoing debate about Orson Scott Card’s anti-gay stance and the Skip-Ender’s-Game boycott, Gavin Hood has weighed in again in an interview with The Advocate, one of America’s leading LGBT news magazines. The article focuses on the fact that Card’s views seem in many ways to be the polar opposite of what the book is about and stresses the parallels between Ender’s experience and the experience of young gay people everywhere of having to reconcile the way they are with the values and beliefs of their loved ones. Says Gavin Hood:The story of Ender is really a young person in search of his identity and in search of his own moral compass. And so for me, it is so ironic that the writer of the work that has helped so many [young] people, gay and straight, to find empowerment, to feel empowered, to find their own moral compass — it’s very sad that he, himself, is struggling with these issues. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that in struggling with these issues, he wrote a great book.
But while it may be ironic, Hood does not seem to be surprised by the discrepancy.
Frankly, that’s not unusual. Great art usually rises above the weaknesses and failings of its creators.
Repeating a sentiment that we have previously heard from producer Bob Orci, Hood goes on to voice his support for the current debate, saying that while he understands the boycotters’ stance, he would rather they watch the movie and use the difference between Card’s views and the messages of the book as a starting point to engage in a fruitful debate about LGBT issues.
[W]e would not be having this conversation if we hadn’t made Ender’s Game, and that’s the way you change societies, when you engage in meaningful conversation. So I’m thrilled we’re having this conversation […] And wouldn’t it be amazing if we could turn this thing into what the book is really about? […] As stressful as this is, it’s achieving, in a twisted way, exactly what we set out to do [namely tell a story about compassion and embracing difference – my note].
While quite a few reader comments on this article are unsurprisingly disparaging I am very pleased to see that a leading LGBT news outlet such as The Advocate is acknowledging the complexity of the issue and voicing a positive attitude towards the book and its positive message of tolerance and compassion.
Read the entire article HERE!
Source: The Advocate
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VIDEO: Harrison Ford Talks Working With Asa Butterfield
During Comic Con, Popsugar managed to catch Harrison Ford for a tiny one-question interview. Watch what he had to say about the young cast in general and Asa Butterfield in particular.
Source: Popsugar
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VIDEO: Hailee Steinfeld Talks About Bonding With Asa Butterfield
While at Comic Con, Popsugar caught up with Hailee Steinfeld to ask her a few quick questions about her work on Ender’s Game. She talks about what drew her to the project, bonding with Asa Butterfield, and working with “Mr. Ford.”
Source: Popsugar
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VIDEO: Asa Butterfield Talks Training and Harrison Ford
More Comic Con videos! Watch Asa talk to Popsugar about the “coolest stuff to film,” training for the battle room, the characters’ ages, and being intimidated by Harrison Ford!
Source: Popsugar
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Roberto Orci and Gavin Hood on Adapting Ender’s Game
While at Comic Con, producer Bob Orci and writer/director Gavin Hood sat down for yet another Ender’s Game interview, this time with FirstShowing.net’s Alex Billington. This interview focuses almost exclusively on the challenge of adapting Orson Scott Card’s complex book for the silver screen. Here are some of my favorite parts.
Bob Orci on why the time is right for an Ender’s Game movie:
[Audiences ha]ve seen everything. They are tired of the usual fare. This is a book that has a unique structure and has complicated themes. But it’s also a grand space adventure.
Gavin Hood on the different media:
The tricky thing in the adaptation of this is how do you make these characters and what’s going on in their heads real on screen when you can’t use what the author can use, which is lots of description of what he’s thinking. … [H]ow do I use different tools, the tools of cinema — lensing, long lenses. When do I go tight? When do I go wide? What kind of structure do I put into the scene? How do I put these characters against each other? To generate the same feeling in the audience that those descriptive passages generate in the book.
Check out the rest of the interview HERE.
Source: FirstShowing.net
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Harrison Ford on Why Ender’s Game is Still Relevant Today
During Comic Con, Harrison Ford found the time to talk briefly to Zap2It about why the book and consequently the movie was (still) relevant today. Ford commented on general social as well as political issues in the book that speak to a contemporary audience. Here is what he said:
[Y]oung people are very curious about the future and their place in the world and how they’re going to fit in and their utility to their culture, and they’re very suspicious of the older generations and the uses to which they’re going to be put, and curious about their future and anxious about their future. This movie deals with all of those issues and more.
I think [the book] was prescient in recognizing [drone warfare] as a potential issue in the future because of what was written 25 years or so ago. I don’t think it’s a metaphor.
Ford goes on to talk about special effects and some of his iconic roles. Read the rest HERE!
Source: Zap2It
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Bob Orci on Filming the Unfilmable Book
During the obligatory Comic Con press line, Ender’s Game producer Roberto Orci talked to Zap2It about spoilers in the trailer, sequels, and the Orson Scott Card controversy. Asked about why this new script was the right one to finally make an Ender’s Game movie when the book had always been called unfilmable, he answered this:
I heard various pitches of the movie over the years that totally changed the ending and made it like ‘Star Wars’ in a sense, like totally like ‘and then they go and they blow up the Death Star,’ essentially. Completely changed what the intent of the book was. … We just thought audiences have seen everything nowadays. They’ve seen all the big spectacle, now they can handle this movie, and it’s still spectacle but it’s still a young protagonist in an adult situation dealing with war and peace and tolerance and all kinds of other things.
Check out the rest of the interview HERE!
Source: Zap2It
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Hailee Steinfeld On Building a Backstory for Petra
Zap2It managed to get a short interview with Hailee Steinfeld during Comic Con. In addition to chatting about training for the battle room scenes, Hailee talked about building a backstory for Petra. This is what she had to say:
It was really fun building a backstory for her …. We had so much freedom and so much time to do that with Gavin. He was so great in sort of helping us. He had so much to sort of bring to the project from his own personal experiences. So much about him had so much to do with my character and sort of exploring her and getting to know her
Read the rest of the interview write-up HERE!
Source: Zap2It
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Asa Butterfield On the Hardest Part of Shooting
During Comic Con, Zap2It caught up with Asa Butterfield for a quick interview about the filming of Ender’s Game. When asked about filming the dramatic climax of the movie, he had this to say:
Shooting that was probably the hardest part about filming, and it was near the end of filming. It was hard and reading the book gave me a lot of insight and ideas about how to play it.
Check out the rest HERE!
Source: Zap2It