Watch the video below to see Hailee Steinfeld talking about life in Battle School and what it was like working with Asa Butterfield, Gavin Hood, and stunt coordinator Garrett Warren. She talks about walking into “Flash Suit City” for the first time, someplace I’m sure we all wish we could go!
Category: Interviews
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VIDEO: Producer Ed Ulbrich Talks Ender’s Game
Listen to Ender’s Game producer Ed Ulbrich talk about conceiving of and building the “Enderverse”, the visuals and the moral messages of the movie!
Ed Ulbrich has been involved in such visually stunning movies as We Own the Night (2007) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). After stepping down as CEO of Digital Domain in July, Ed Ulbrich remained a producer on Ender’s Game. According to our own Crystal, the backdrop and the traffic sounds in the background suggest that this may have been recorded during San Diego Comic Con earlier this year.
Source: TrailerAddict
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VIDEO: Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley Talk ‘Ender’s Game’ Plus More Behind the Scenes
In this video released by the Associated Press, star Harrison Ford discusses his role and why he was attracted to Ender’s Game. Ford is asked the question of whether he gave advice to his young co-stars and responds that he doesn’t think it’s appropriate because they were all very evolved as actors. The video also features some cool behind-the-scenes footage!
Sir Ben talks about the effect of his facial tattoos while we’re treated to a look at Ender and Mazer sitting at a table and then Gavin Hood as he directs Kingsley in a scene.
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VIDEOS: Ender’s Game Cast and Crew at MCM London Comic Con
Before their presentation of Ender’s Game at the Odeon Leicester Square during MCM London Comic Con, Hailee Steinfeld, Sir Ben Kingsley, Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, and Gavin Hood talked to Entertainmentwise about Ender’s Game.
Not much new here, but I get some perverse enjoyment out of the reactions of Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield and, yes, Harrison Ford to being asked whether or not they would like to star/are starring in the next Star Wars movie. The Ben Kingsley one is cut off a bit in the beginning. If you’re interested in the whole Star Wars conversation, check it out HERE! Would someone please phone someone to get Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield into that movie. Look how excited they are at the prospect!
The fabulous five also talked to a couple of other news outlets prior to their London presentation. We already posted HeyUGuysUK’s interviews with Gavin Hood and Sir Ben Kingsley earlier this week. Their interviews with Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and Harrison Ford don’t reveal anything new, but we didn’t want to keep them from you either way, so here they are:
Finally, The MCM Buzz interviewed the cast and crew on the Comic Con red carpet. Here is a video that collects some tidbits of what Gavin Hood and the four cast members had to say:
You can check out the full interviews with Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Gavin Hood on the TheMCMBuzz Youtube channel. I love the Hailee Steinfeld and Ben Kingsley ones especially.
They even posted a somewhat rarer interview with Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orci. Check it out below.
Sources: Entertainmentwise, HeyUGuysUK, TheMCMBuzz -
VIDEO: Sir Ben Kingsley on Acting with Tā Moko
Sir Ben Kingsley spoke with HeyUGuysUK in London tonight about what it was like for him to act with Maori tā moko on his face.
I didn’t feel any conscious difference on my face and it’s not a tattoo on my arm that I can look at on my arm and sort of enjoy or have a rapport with but […] it changed the way the other actors looked at me and that was really interesting, how they were trying to decipher my face and wonder what it meant and how dangerous and threatening it was. It affected them more than it affected me. It’s good, it was great.
Source: HeyUGuysUK
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VIDEO: Harrison Ford Talks Ender’s Game on Wetten Dass …?
As promised, here is Harrison Ford talking about Ender’s Game on Wetten Dass …? last night in Bremen. He is pretty hard to understand due to the tranlsator’s voice being much louder than his own, so there’s a transcript below the vid. Enjoy!
Translation/Transcript:
Host: A young boy is asked to save the world. What is the general idea behind this?
Ford: He does save the world. This takes place in the future. Obviously it’s a kind of science fiction, but I think unlike the kind of science fiction you see, you’ve seen before, it has real heart and emotion. It’s, I think, a very powerful story about a young man who learns leadership, the challenges of leadership. I play the man who’s responsible for training him. It proposes that in the future, there is a world government and we have a combined military force, the International Fleet. And we have been invaded once before by an alien life form that you got a brief glimpse of there [in the CLIP they aired before] and suffered real damage from this alien life form, and we know they are coming again. And the proposition is that young people really integrate complex data more quickly than adults. So the soldiers, or warriors, of this period are fighting with drone warfare. The book, which is 28 years old, and this is a bestseller, predicted the internet, predicted touch screen technology, predicted drone warfare. And all of that has come true, and its a … the story is very compelling.
Host: A very interesting story, of which we shouldn’t give away too much, and a very visionary book this film is based on. The movie will have its great opening in Germany on October 24th.I had hoped for a bit more information concerning the production of the movie, his co-stars etc., but I guess between having him talk about Indiana Jones and his planes and having him bet on whether a guy could throw five eggs over a beer tent and catch them on the other side with a frying pan, there just wasn’t enough time to talk about this movie some more. Meh. Still, it’s something, and we got an awesome clip with that.
Source: ZDFneo
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Harrison Ford to Appear on Wetten Dass …?
Listen up, everyone! Harrison Ford is going to be on German TV in about 20 minutes, and he is most likely going to promote Ender’s Game! Harrison is to be a guest at Wetten Dass …? (“Bet you that …”), the biggest German show in existence (or at least it used to be). Other guests include Silvester Stallone and Cher. The show airs live, and you may even be able to stream it here: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek#/hauptnavigation/startseite (the show will be available there for a number of days afterwards)
A fair warning, though: the show has a high potential to be embarrassing. Tom Hanks and Halle Berry were apparently quite “perturbed” last year. Also, it runs for 2 and a half hours, although Harrison may not be there for all of it.
Source: ZDF Mediathek, Morgenpost
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VIDEO: FilmClub Talks to Asa Butterfield
British educational charity FilmClub recently had young reporter Matt talk with Asa Butterfield about Ender’s Game. Watch the video below.
One of the things that we really wanted to do is keep the core themes and ideas from the original novel into the screenplay and it was a bit of a challenge and it was a lot of weight on my shoulders playing this character, but I think we did it justice.
Having a novel as an actor is so helpful in having small ideas, things that you can draw upon when creating a character. I’ve done a few films where they’ve been adapted from novels and it’s always really helpful.
Asa also mentions that he hasn’t seen the film yet, though it’s unclear when this interview was actually conducted.
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VIDEO: Abigail Breslin Talks Valentine Wiggin
Online fashion magazine ContentMode recently published a photo series they did with Abigail Breslin for their current issue. In addition to a number of awesome pictures they also posted a video of Abigail talking about her fashion philosophy, filming August: Osage County with Meryl Streep, and Valentine’s relationship with Ender in Ender’s Game! Watch it below. The Ender’s Game part starts around the 2:55 minute mark.
Source: ContentMode
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Gavin Hood on the Grey Areas of ‘Ender’s Game’
Gavin Hood appeared as a guest at Fan Expo Canada this past weekend and spoke to press about the upcoming Ender’s Game adaptation. In an interview with Metro News, he talks about the difficulties of adapting the book and his interest in the grey areas of the novel.
“Some films masquerade as dealing with moral complexity, but in fact, for me, cop out a little by never putting the protagonist in a truly morally complex situation,” Hood said in a recent interview at the pop culture fest known as Fan Expo Canada. “There are films we can think of where, yes, the protagonist kills people, but actually all the people they kill are bad or awful in some way, (without) that moment of really having to face up to the grey zone, that place where you ask, ‘Am I capable of doing something morally repugnant because I believe it’s for a greater good?’
He also talks a bit about how he sees reactions to his decision to cut Locke and Demosthenes and his wife’s advice on the matter!
“My wife actually says to me, ‘Gavin, you have to stop going on the Internet. It makes you crazy.’ There’s so much chatter,” says Hood. “I found it hard to cut. But it really means you need to make a 15-part miniseries, and I was given the opportunity to make a two-hour film, so my focus was, ‘What can I do in a film that the novel might not be able to do as well?’”
You can read the entire interview at Metro News.
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Moises Arias On Being a Child Actor and Favorite Roles
A couple of days ago, Moises Arias (Bonzo) tweeted this little interview he did in The Standard Lifestyle‘s Artist Issue. Click through for a bigger/readable version of the scan!
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VIDEO: Gavin Hood On Making Ender’s Game an Unusual YA Movie
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.
Source: MoviesDotComOfficial on Youtube
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VIDEO: Asa and Hailee on Petra, Graff, and the Movie’s Time Frame
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
