Since we are posting new stills today, check out this picture of Ender and Graff showing them shortly before Ender enters the battle room.
This image appeared in the special Comic Con edition being handed out in the San Diego Gaslamp Quarter during Comic Con.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
In a recent interview with Moviefone (Asa and Hailee did one, too), Harrison Ford talks about Colonel Graff, how he compares to other character’s he’s played over the years, and the Hollywood studio system. The interview is pretty standard fare, but Harrison Ford is HILARIOUS!
My favorite part has to be this:
I wanted to switch gears a bit …
[Smiles] I thought you might.[Laughs] It’s not exactly what you expect — at least I am hoping it’s not. It may start out like that but …
[Laughs] It won’t end up like that!OK, but give me a chance!
Take your best shot.Your earlier movies still make news today — “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones,” etc. My question to you is…
[Harrison begins drumming on the coffee table in front of him][Laughs]… is there one movie of yours that you wish got more attention than those movies?
That I wish got more attention? No. Well, there were movies that I think were good movies that did not receive as much attention at the time. I don’t think I remember any… oh, the one that comes to mind is “Mosquito Coast,” which I think was a really good movie and perhaps didn’t receive as much attention as it might have.
Read the rest of the interview HERE!
Source: Moviefone
In this clip from San Diego Comic Con, exclusively revealed by Yahoo Movies, Graff greets new students to battle school, introducing more of the before seen footage of the First/Second Invasion. Looks like they will indeed make the name and story of Mazer Rackham as important and ever present in the minds of the kids as it is in the books!
Read Yahoo’s accompanying article here: Harrison Ford Delivers Ender’s Game Gravitas in a Comic-Con Exclusive!
Source: Yahoo Movies
Moviefone and Fandango have exclusively revealed three new Ender’s Game character posters each. They look awesome! Click for higher resolution! (Especially the Fandango ones, i.e. Anderson, Mazer and Ender, are super hi-res.)
Which one is your favorite? Any you don’t like? Do you miss anyone? Tell us in the comments or sound off in our Forums!
The IF wants to recruit YOU! Watch the recruitment video, presented by Colonel Graff, and including all new movie scenes!
Watch the HD version HERE.
Check out this awesome cover of Entertainment Weekly featuring none other than Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield in Ender’s Game!
We get a great look at Ender in his Dragon Army flash suit, carrying in his arm his Dragon Army helmet. It’s a “bonus” cover, so you may have to check around to find this one for yourself!
Source: Entertainment Weekly
Early this morning, five new characters for Ender’s Game hit the web, showing major characters Ender Wiggin, Hyrum Graff, Mazer Rackham, Gwen Anderson, and Petra Arkanian. Click the images for larger versions.
UPDATE: These may not be official posters. Will update when I know more.
UPDATE 2: These posters have been confirmed as drafts and were unintentionally leaked. To which all I can say is, yay, more posters coming later? 🙂
UPDATE 3: The posters have been removed at the request of Summit.
In this week’s EnderCast, Kelly and Crystal talk to Air Force colonel Tom Ruby, who contributed the essay “Ender on Leadership” to Smart Pop Books’ anthology Ender’s World. Among other things, they discuss
Listen to the episode here.
Also, check out Tom’s essay on the Smart Pop Books website and visit his site at www.bgcts.com.
Last week we got a great new image of Ender Wiggin in the Battle Room, presumably it’s his first time in the Battle Room because he’s wearing a yellow helmet, which we’ve all guessed is the official Launchie uniform color.
Now thanks to a hi-res version of the image, we get a better view of the look on Graff’s face as he watches Ender hang on to the handholds outside the gate. He’s clearly smiling, or at least looking at him with admiration.
I didn’t comment much on this last week, but looking at this closer up, I do love the statement this image makes about the “technology” of Ender’s Game because Ender floats just a few feet away from Graff, who is clearly standing in a hallway with gravity.
Whether or not this is possible at all, I’ll leave up to the people who know science. I still think it lends some cool factor to the world they live in.
It’s also easier to see the flash suit (click for larger size):
View the full image below or in the gallery.
Let this be a lesson to me that the next time I hit the snooze button on my phone alarm, I should check email first. Haha!
Empire Online has just released a new still from Ender’s Game showing Ender in the Battle Room with Graff watching nearby. We get a really amazing look at the gate from the inside along with a better idea at just how massive the Battle Room is.
Empire spoke with Asa about the Battle Room scenes. Some of it we’ve heard before, some of it we haven’t, including the Battle Room scene he’s most proud of.
During their training, Ender and his unit take on a lot of other teams in the Battle Room. Any stunts you’re particularly proud of pulling off?
There’s a really cool sequence where I’m sort of spinning over backwards and I let go of my guns. They’re floating by my side just going along. As I push myself through these two stars, I spin back over and grab the guns, then shoot the people around me. I loved doing that.
He also mentions that they spent a month and a half filming scenes in the harness, which should be comforting for fans that were concerned by something author Orson Scott Card said last year at a book signing that one scene in the Battle Room is too many.
Source: Empire
Today the official Ender’s Game Twitter and Facebook released a new promotional image from the Ender’s Game movie. This one features an image of Colonel Graff that we’ve seen on previous promo images, but also features a new shot of Ender Wiggin.
So far, the only imagery we’ve seen of Ender in his Dragon Army flash suit is from the official poster, but that is a view from the back. This image features a very cool front look at Ender wearing his Dragon Army flash suit.
The tagline posted with it was “Prepare for battle.”
Follow the official Ender’s Game Twitter @EndersGameMovie.
Thanks to Summit, we now have the unwatermarked version of the first official still. The image has been uploaded to the EnderWiggin.net Gallery.
With a hi-res still, we can do a better analysis of the details of the image including something Kelly and I talked about on the premiere episode of EnderCast: Graff’s shoulder pin.
As you can clearly see, his pin does indeed have the IF Phi on it. As mentioned on the EnderWiggin.net Facebook, it’s possible we’ll be sitting in line for midnight premieres of Ender’s Game on Halloween 2013! Any cosplayers out there ready to start making their IF costume for SDCC? I know if I knew how I would be!
Another thing to note about the still is that you can now clearly see that there are six people standing on the same side as Ender, which makes it safe to assume that there are only 12 launchies to a barracks, since the soldiers are standing on numbers starting from 01 with the girl in yellow on the left and then going to 02 under Ender’s feet. There also appears to be an additional girl on Ender’s side of the barracks.
Pick up any other details? Comment and let me know what you find!
This morning brings to us the first official still from next year’s film adaptation Ender’s Game, brought to us exclusively by Entertainment Weekly.
The still, which shows child military genius Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) with Colonel Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford), is from the barracks at Battle School in space, where Ender is in training with the International Fleet among the world’s brightest young soldiers.
In the background, you can see the insignia for the International Fleet as well as their beds, no doubt a cold contrast to what they’ve just left at home. Alai (Suraj Partha) stands next to Ender. Behind Graff there’s a female cadet and several unidentified cast members (most likely background).
In the photo above, we get a first glimpse of Hugo’s Asa Butterfield (right) as Ender, standing in line with other new recruits (a.k.a. “Launchies”) early on at his time in the Battle School. He’s facing off with the imposing Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford, center) over whether his emails to home are being blocked. It’s telling that the two characters are clashing over communication, since they’ve got major communication issues with each other. In the novel, Ender could never be sure whether Graff was manipulating him, or whether he simply saw great potential in him and wanted to foster it.
The actors tried to mirror their characters’ emotions. “The relationship between [Harrison] and Asa was very close,” explains Hood, “but he didn’t overly befriend him off the set. He helped Asa by allowing that slight sense of intimidation to be there.” Getting intimidated by Indiana Jones himself? Sounds like a cinch! What was harder for the cast of children was filming the movie while going to school. “The kids have to attend school for at least three hours of class every day, plus do homework, so you can only shoot with someone like Asa for five hours of your day,” says Hood. “There was no time for fooling about or not knowing your lines or being unprepared.” To everyone’s delight, Butterfield (along with every child actor) proved himself a true professional. “Asa being prepared meant that we could focus on the scenes, and these are complicated scenes for a young actor,” says Hood.
Source: Full article at EW.com