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.”
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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
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VIDEO: Gavin Hood on How He Relates to Ender’s Game
Hi folks,
looks like we are going to keep finding these little gems from Comic Con for a while. Here is an awesome interview Screen Rant did with Gavin Hood. He speaks about how he personally relates to the story of Ender, what Space Camp did for the kids and the filming process, how they deal with Ender realizing that “the enemy’s gate is down,” and Hood’s opinion on Orson Scott Card and his views on gay marriage.
Source: Screen Rant
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Movie Tie-In Cover for the ‘Ender’s Game’ Graphic Novel
Earlier this year we posted about an upcoming movie tie-in graphic novel for Ender’s Game. The cover has now been updated on Amazon to show the “Next Generation” poster which features Aramis Knight? Brandon Soo Hoo? Will we ever know?
The graphic novel will be released on September 17 and can be pre-ordered for $18.99 on Amazon.
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PHOTO: First Picture of Ender and Alai
I know the quality sucks a bit, and we’ll try to get a better quality one as soon as possible, but we didn’t want to keep this from you. This is the first time we’ve seen Ender and Alai together in character in the movie! The picture was taken quasi by accident by the folks of Collider, who actually just wanted a photograph of the Ender’s Game Experience classroom desks. Be that as it may, this is proof that Ender and Alai’s friendship is acknowledged in the movie!
Source: Collider
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EnderCast Episode 23 – Ender’s Bullies
Hey Launchies, Crystal from Enderwiggin.net and Kelly from EnderNews.com were on a roll during Comic Con. After Episode 22 was posted only days ago, we now get Episode 23 – Ender’s Bullies. Listen to our hosts talk to Caleb Thaggard, who plays Ender’s primary school bully Stilson, and Conor Carroll, who plays Bernard, Ender’s launch group nemesis. You won’t believe how absolutely nice these two baddies are!
Bernard and Stilson chat about
- the Ender’s Game Experience at Comic Con
- how they were cast and how they felt about it
- how they got into reading the book
- Harrison Ford, chickens and other generally silly stuff.
Check out the entire episode HERE!
Image Source: EnderNews
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EnderCast Episode 22 – Launchies in Line
Greetings Enderites!If you, like me, had to miss out on Comic Con, here comes the podcast that will make you regret it not quite so much: Episode 22 – Launchies in Line. In the first part of the podcast, Crystal from EnderWiggin.net and Kelly from Ender News are waiting in line in front of Hall H to experience the Ender’s Game panel on Thursday, July 18, where they are joined by EnderNews staffer Aidan and long term devoted fan Hannah! In the second part of the podcast, Crystal and Kelly recap the Thursday panel, among other things.
Topics include:
- loads of talk about camping, waiting, and the Hall H line
- expectations of the Ender’s Game panel
- the Ender’s Game Exclusive Fan Experience
- the Hall H panel and the new trailer
- the Comic Con experience in general
Listen to the episode HERE!
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PHOTO: New(ish) Behind-the-Scenes Picture
Empire Magazine has released a new behind-the-scenes still from the filming of Ender’s Game. They already put it out in print in their August 2013 issue a couple of weeks ago, but this is the first time they officially used it online. In it, we see director Gavin Hood talk to Asa Butterfield and Suraj Partha about a scene that apparently happens in the battle school corridor and in which they are wearing pyjamas. Can anyone guess which scene this is? And what are those rainbow-colored rings?
Read Empire’s accompanying article about the Ender’s Game Comic Con panel HERE!
Source: Empire
