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.
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There are still Comic Con videos trickling in. This one was posted recently by Entertainment Weekly. Watch Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld talk about Petra being the only girl, Graff being the “overbearing tyrant” of Battle School and their favorite thing to shoot. Also, Asa Butterfield speculates on when the Ender’s Game movie is actually set.
I’m not sure I believe the 50 year time frame. Maybe he means that that is when the first invasion occurs?
Thanks to asafarrbutterfield and ellassecretworld for posting this on Tumblr.
Source: EW’s Youtube Channel
I know they’ve been long in coming, but here are the final photos from the “Ender’s Game” press conference held on 18 July 2013 at San Diego Comic-Con!
I had the amazing opportunity to sit second row, a mere ten feet from a fabulous ensemble: Writer/Director Gavin Hood, Producer Roberto Orci, Asa Butterfield (Ender Wiggin), Hailee Steinfeld (Petra Arkanian), and of course, Mr. Harrison Ford (Colonel Graff). I’m not really sure what they talked about, since I spent most of my time trying to snap photos and take video simultaneously. Though I’m pretty sure one of those surlier photos of Harrison came shortly after some silly reporter said the words “Han Solo”…
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More interviews from Comic Con, peeps! During the convention, Clevver TV caught up with Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld as well as producer Bob Orci and director Gavin Hood, but while they released their interview with Hailee and Asa weeks ago, they only made the ones with Bob and Gavin available on Youtube a couple of days ago.
In this one, Gavin Hood talks about space camp, training for Zero G and the challenges of bringing the imaginative environments of the book as well as Ender’s (mostly internal) struggle to the screen. If this pans out the way Hood planned it, it’s gonna be awesome.
Watch ClevverTV’s interview with Asa and Hailee HERE!
Watch ClevverTV’s interview with Bob Orci HERE!
Source: Clevver TV on Youtube
The Comic Con rush isn’t over, guys. During the convention, Clevver TV caught up with Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld as well as producer Bob Orci and director Gavin Hood, but while they released their interview with Hailee and Asa weeks ago, they only made the ones with Bob and Gavin available on Youtube a couple of days ago.
In this one, Bob Orci talks trying to get the Ender’s Game movie done in a way that would keep the integrity and storyline of the book. Spiderman and Star Trek fans can look forward to brief mentions as well. Watch it below!
Watch ClevverTV’s interview with Asa and Hailee HERE!
Watch ClevverTV’s interview with Gavin Hood HERE!
Source: Clevver Movies on Youtube
We keep hearing talk about how hot the flash suits were and recently talked to costume designer Christine Bieselin-Clark about how they had to wear another layer under the suits too! In this interview with USA Today, Asa and Hailee go into further detail on what it was like to work in the wire harness and the flash suits.
The filmmakers used rigs to hoist the actors and make them feel as if they were in space. “If you’re scared of heights, you just had to get over it,” Butterfield says. “There’s nothing you can do about it. We all had a great time up there.”
Steinfeld recalls about three months spent on wires “floating around, flipping around, being thrown into pads.”
“And shooting people,” Butterfield says.
“The list goes on,” says Steinfeld, who plays Petra Arkanian, Ender’s friend at Battle School. “I don’t really think we had time to worry about it.”
“I guess we don’t really know any different,” Steinfeld says. “It is very uncomfortable and hard at first, to say the least.”
[…] “It was like a sauna,” Butterfield says.
Because of the sound, filmmakers couldn’t run air conditioning to keep them cool, says Steinfeld, though Butterfield notes that they did have fans in their 8-pound helmets, “which kept it from fogging up.”
[…]
“I doubt they were comfortable 50 years in the future,” Butterfield figures.
“Yeah, I don’t know how we managed,” Steinfeld adds before giving him a high-five. “Maybe we’ll see. We’ll go to space in 50 years and see if the spacesuits are comfortable.”
Read the whole interview at USA Today.
Definitely sounds like they had a tough time doing the Battle Room scenes, but from what we’ve seen in the trailers so far, it looks pretty fantastic. And to think I thought my flight suit costume was too hot!
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.
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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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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!
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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
Our third and final San Diego Comic Con podcast is up and ready for you to listen to! For this episode, we had an epic cast of guests including:
Things we talked about included:
Listen to the episode HERE.
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
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