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  • PHOTO: Ender and Petra at the Gate

    PHOTO: Ender and Petra at the Gate

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    Thanks to a slideshow put up by Entertainment Weekly for their Comic Con 2013 preview, we’ve got a new look at Ender (Asa Butterfield, right) and Petra (Hailee Steinfeld, left) holding hands as they’re about to jump into the Battle Room.

    The photo gives us a better look at the flash guns, as can be seen on Petra’s hip, but it also brings up an inevitable question: are Petra and Ender a “thing” in the movie?

    In the book, Petra acts more like a tough older sister to Ender when he first joins Salamander Army under Bonzo. But Ender was around 7 or 8 at that point while in the book he’ll be around 10 or 11. When we first saw Petra in the trailer, she was giving a sly smile to Ender.

    Now in this photo we see them holding hands as they get ready to go into the Battle Room, something that Ender has presumably already done himself because we’ve seen him in the Battle Room wearing launchy colors. So what do you guys think? Do Petra and Ender have a different type of connection in the film? And if they did, how do you feel about it?

    Source: EW.com

     

  • Entertainment Weekly Reveals New Ender’s Game Cover

    Entertainment Weekly Reveals New Ender’s Game Cover

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    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

  • Visit the Official German Ender’s Game Movie Site

    Visit the Official German Ender’s Game Movie Site

    German movie distributor Constantin has launched its official Ender’s Game site. Apart from the trailer, the release date (October 24! YAY!), and a few interactive graphic elements, there isn’t much there yet, but we’re sure that more content will be added soon.  In any case, it looks pretty spiffy.  Check it out at www.enders-game-film.de/.

     

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  • Five ‘Ender’s Game’ Character Posters Revealed

    Five ‘Ender’s Game’ Character Posters Revealed

    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.

  • EnderCast Episode 18: Graff

    EnderCast Episode 18: Graff

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    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

    • how Tom met and became friends with Orscon Scott Card
    • bad movies, and how they can damage the reputation of a book
    • if battle school is a real possibility, and what Tom would do if he was in Graff’s shoes
    • how they might establish Ender’s exceptional leadership abilities in the movie

    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.

  • Fan-Made Friday: Ender’s Game Book Cover by Koala-Tee

    Fan-Made Friday: Ender’s Game Book Cover by Koala-Tee

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    Happy Friday, Launchies! Here’s an alternative book cover designed by Koala-Tee on Deviantart, done as an art project in school.

     

  • Hi-Res Version of Ender in the Battle Room

    Hi-Res Version of Ender in the Battle Room

    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.

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    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):

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    View the full image below or in the gallery.

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  • New ‘Ender’s Game’ Still with Graff and Ender in the Battle Room

    New ‘Ender’s Game’ Still with Graff and Ender in the Battle Room

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    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

  • PHOTO: Ender Wiggin in Dragon Army Flash Suit

    PHOTO: Ender Wiggin in Dragon Army Flash Suit

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    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.

  • Fan-Made Friday: The Giant’s Drink by megakx

    Fan-Made Friday: The Giant’s Drink by megakx

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    Here’s a cool piece of fan art by megakx on Deviantart of The Giant’s Drink.

  • Fan Made Friday: Oil Painting of Ender Wiggin

    Fan Made Friday: Oil Painting of Ender Wiggin

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    Check out this amazing oil painting of Ender done by SidharthChaturvedi on DeviantArt for a show at the Modern Eden gallery in San Francisco, CA.

  • About That Trailer Ending…

    About That Trailer Ending…

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    Boy, what a day. My head hurts, I still feel like I have earbuds jammed into my ears, and my back is killing me, but what a fantastic day it was anyway!

    So now that we’ve all seen it and people are reacting, one of the most common complaints I’ve seen online is that Summit did that dastardly thing us moviegoers hate so much: they ruined the ending of the movie.

    Match to the planet. Boom boom!
    Match to the planet. Boom boom!

    I’ll be honest, this was my initial kneejerk reaction too. Why did they reveal that? Why blow up the climax right now? And then I came to my senses.

    The only reason anyone thinks this is a spoiler is because you’ve read the book. When you think about it, there’s really nothing in that scene to indicate that Ender knows exactly what he’s doing.

    In the book, Ender is using what he is told is a very sophisticated simulator. He revels in its controls and excels in commanding his soldiers to do what he feels must be done to beat his enemy. And as we all know, to Ender, his enemies in these “simulations” aren’t the buggers on the screen. It’s Mazer. It’s Graff. It’s the teachers.

    In the very first interview we got with Gavin Hood way back in December when the first still came out, he was asked about the ending by Grady Smith of Entertainment Weekly:

    To that end, the director promises that the book’s dark ending (which I won’t spoil here) has remained fully in tact. “That ending — and the complex moral questions that it raises — is one of the reasons why I love the book, ” says Hood. “I promise you that it is very much there.”

    Ender-NowI remain confident that the trailer is in fact spoiler free. The only reason it appears to be a spoiler is because we know what it really means.

    That doesn’t mean that after that explosion, Ender doesn’t then turn to see a crowd of cheering military brass and then learns that his worst nightmares have come to pass.

    As much as I love the character of Ender, I think we’ll still have to see see the pain he suffers as a result of that intense last command.

    Anyone going around ranting to people about how the ending spoils the movie is… actually spoiling the movie. So stop it already!

  • Extended ‘Ender’s Game’ Teaser Airs on Entertainment Tonight

    Extended ‘Ender’s Game’ Teaser Airs on Entertainment Tonight

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    If you don’t already watch Entertainment Tonight, make sure you tune in to tonight’s show as they’ll be showing an extended teaser of the Ender’s Game trailer that will debut worldwide tomorrow at 1 PM PT.

    People on the East Coast have already reported seeing it and it sounds like it is just under one minute and includes the end of the trailer when Ender yells, “NOW!”.

    This extended teaser will be exclusive to their television broadcast.