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‘Ender’s Game’ Set Photos; Young Mazer Wraps

Keen observers on Twitter may have noticed a few new photos from the set of Ender’s Game, which is nearing completion in New Orleans, Louisiana. Actor Kyle Clements (@kyle_clements) tweeted that he wrapped his Ender’s Game scenes yesterday. He plays the young version of Mazer Rackham, who is played by Sir Ben Kingsley.

This is a photo of producer Bob Orci (left) talking to executive producer David Coatsworth (right) tweeted by @ManSafGo. You can see in the background that the entire area is painted green for filming!

The last of these photos shows above-mentioned David Coatsworth having lunch with his phone.

June 1, 2012
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.

Still, 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.

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!

View more photos below:

April 21, 2012
‘Ender’s Game’ Production Blog Posts Space Camp Photo

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).

April 4, 2012
Meet Aramis Knight AKA Bean

While Ender’s Game features a wide cast of known child actors including Asa Butterfield (Ender), Abigail Breslin (Valentine), and Hailee Steinfeld (Petra), one of the most important of those characters is Bean, who will be played by 12 year-old Aramis Knight.

Knight first began acting when he was six years old, when he had a small part in the pilot episode of ABC’s alien drama series Invasion in 2005. Since then, he’s done a lot of acting in television, appearing in shows such as NCIS, Ghost Whisperer, Dexter, and even an episode of LOST as Sam, Sayid’s nephew. (video below)

Interestingly enough, Knight has already worked with mega star Harrison Ford, who is set to play Colonel Graff, the leader of the Battle School, in the movie Crossing Over.

With such a lengthy resume behind him, he seems to be big enough to fill the shoes of little genius Bean. He’s described as being 4’10”, which doesn’t really lend much to the fact that he’s supposed to be extremely small (thus the name “Bean”), but a lot could be done to make him look smaller on screen. Does he look like the Bean you’ve imagined?

View his demo reel on IMDB or watch this video of him in LOST, season 6:

January 3, 2012
Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin Officially Join Cast of ‘Ender’s Game’

A slew of actors were reported to be officially joining the cast of Ender’s Game today, with Harrison Ford being cast as Colonel Hyram Graff and Abigail Breslin as Ender’s sister Valentine Wiggin.

Other casting announcements:

Aramis Knight has been cast as Bean, Ender’s smallest and most brilliant recruit in Dragon Army.

Moises Arias has been cast as Bonzo Madrid, the leader of Salamander and Ender’s first commander.

Jimmy “Jax” Pinchak has been cast as Peter Wiggin, Ender’s sociopath older brother.

Conor Carroll has been cast as Bernard, the first enemy that Ender makes on the shuttle launch to Battle School.

Khylin Rhambo has been cast as Dink Meeker, Ender’s friend and ally in the Battle School.

Suraj Parthasarathy has been cast as Alai, one of Ender’s toon leaders in Dragon Army.

Source: Variety

December 21, 2011