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  • Can Teenager Asa Butterfield Play a Young Ender?

    Can Teenager Asa Butterfield Play a Young Ender?

    It’s already been made clear by early casting calls for the film adaptation of Ender’s Game that Ender has been aged up from 5 to 10.

    Obviously, finding the right five year-old actor to portray the child genius Andrew could have kept the movie in limbo for yet another 20 years no matter how strong the script, so aging him up is an understandable change to a science fiction classic that has been a favorite of readers for decades.

    Asa ButterfieldStill, when it was announced that Asa Butterfield had been offered the key role, I have to admit I had reservations. Sure, he looked the part of an older Ender, but could he play the younger Ender as well?

    Pictured right, Butterfield looks like a teenager. It’s moderately difficult to see how this young man could pull off being so young. Past pivotal young male roles were cast pretty close to their character’s ages. Haley Joel Osment was 10 when he filmed The Sixth Sense and his character was 9 years old. Macaulay Culkin was 9 when he played 8 year-old Kevin McCallister. Butterfield looked very young in Hugo, but his character was twelve years old.

    Fourteen years old when he was cast and just recently turned fifteen this April, could Asa Butterfield be made to look like he is a young 10 year-old boy? Photos posted to Twitter today seem to support that the answer to that is a convincing yes.

    Asa Butterfield and Aramis Knight

    This photo was posted by Asa Butterfield (left) and Aramis Knight (Bean, right) today and Asa does look a lot younger with his military hairstyle, though it could be the angle and camera filter playing tricks on the eyes. It could just be the expression on his face.

    What do you think, folks? Does he look like he can pull off 10 years old? After seeing the photos posted today, my reservations have definitely begun to fade away.

    Hopefully we’ll get a real photo of Ender soon. Everyone cross your fingers for next week!

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  • ‘Ender’s Game’ Production Blog Posts Space Camp Photo

    ‘Ender’s Game’ Production Blog Posts Space Camp Photo

    Space Camp

    The production blog for Ender’s Game, which seems to be operating on a weekly Wednesday posting, put up a new photo of the cast in a simulator while attending Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama.

    “Houston, we have a problem.  We don’t know how to land the Shuttle.” Good thing it’s just a simulator safely on the ground at SPACE CAMP in Huntsville, Alabama.  Aramis, Moises, Asa & Suraj (pictured above from a monitor in the MISSION CONTROL ROOM ) and the rest of our cast agreed that to do Ender’s Game right, they had to train as though they were really headed into ZERO G.  And this wasn’t just an afternoon spent taking a vanity tour. From the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), which simulates extra-vehicular shuttle missions in Earth’s orbit, to the microgravity training chair that prepared astronauts for moonwalks during the Apollo program, the week at Space Camp was genuine prep for the feeling of reality that this movie deserves. And after all, the army that trains together stays together.

    From left to right seated in the photo: Aramis Knight (Bean), Moises Arias (Bonzo), Asa Butterfield (Ender), and Suraj Parthasurathy (Alai).

  • Happy Birthday Asa Butterfield!

    Happy Birthday Asa Butterfield!

    Asa Butterfield

    Happy Birthday to our Ender Wiggin, Asa Butterfield, who turned 15 today! We share a birthday, so happy birthday to us!

  • Battle School Scenes in Production

    Battle School Scenes in Production

    From the sound of tweets from the actors currently on set of Ender’s Game, production is likely working on Battle School scenes.

    Star Asa Butterfield tweeted that he was on his second day on set with his toon leaders Bean (Aramis Knight), Petra (Hailee Steinfeld), Fly Molo (Brandon Soo Hoo), and Alai (Suraj Parthasurathy) along with his friend Dink (Khylin Rhambo) and stern commander Bonzo Madrid (Moises Arias).

    What do you think they’re working on? Battle Room? Mess hall? Can you picture them all watching him play Giant’s Drink?

    So far there’s been no further updates to the production blog that launched a week ago on Tumblr.

  • ‘Hugo’ Starring Asa Butterfield and Ben Kingsley Out on DVD

    ‘Hugo’ Starring Asa Butterfield and Ben Kingsley Out on DVD

    Five time Academy Award winning film Hugo, starring Ender’s Game stars Asa Butterfield (Ender) and Ben Kingsley (Mazer Rackham) is out today on Blu-ray and DVD.

    If you haven’t had a chance to see Asa in anything yet, this would be a great movie to do it with since it’s his most recent work before Ender’s Game and is so highly acclaimed. The film also stars Chloe Moretz, Jude Law, and Sacha Baron Cohen.

    Hugo is also available on Amazon Instant Video for $3.99 or at your local Redbox kiosk.

    About Hugo:

    Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

  • Asa Butterfield Talks ‘Ender’s Game’ with BBC America

    Asa Butterfield Talks ‘Ender’s Game’ with BBC America

    In this quick chat with Ender’s Game star Asa Butterfield, BBC America asked him to explain a bit about the movie’s premise and about working again with Sir Ben Kingsley, who will play war hero and mentor Mazer Rackham. “The script has been amazingly adapted to the book.” says Butterfield. “It’ll be amazing.”

    When asked how he’s able to maintain a normal life while being a child actor, Butterfield said, “It’s difficult because I am doing something barely no one else my age does, but I do try to keep my acting life and my normal life separate, so whenever I’m at school I just do whatever a normal 14 year-old kid does, I play computer games, hang out with mates, read.”

    Butterfield says he’d love to work with Tim Burton on a future project.

    Ender’s Game begins filming in New Orleans next month. Production is currently casting extras for the Battle School.

    Source: BBC America via Ender’s Ansible

  • Asa Butterfield at the Critic’s Choice Awards

    Asa Butterfield at the Critic’s Choice Awards

    Asa Critic's ChoiceAsa Butterfield, the 14 year-old who will be playing Ender Wiggin in the production for Ender’s Games set to start next month in New Orleans, attended the Critic’s Choice Movie Awards sporting hair newly dyed black.

    Preparation for his role, perhaps?

    Although the color of Ender’s hair is never specifically mentioned in the books, Butterfield normally walks around with a set of brown locks, so the change so soon before filming begins could be an indication that they’re going to have their film version of Ender with black hair.

    Hair color aside, who knew a boy could look so thin in a suit?

    Source: Glamour UK

  • Asa Butterfield Confirms Casting for ‘Ender’s Game’ Movie

    Asa Butterfield Confirms Casting for ‘Ender’s Game’ Movie

    Just over a week ago, it was reported that Asa Butterfield, the young star of Martin Scorscese’s Hugo had been offered the part of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin for the film adaptation of Ender’s Game.

    Today, Butterfield confirmed that he has accepted the role via Twitter.

    Asa ButterfieldThe film, which is set to begin filming early next year, will be released in March 2013. Fans of the novel have been waiting decades for this film to be made and this casting is definitely a sure sign of it finally happening.