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New ‘Ender’s Game’ Photos from ComingSoon.it

Italian movie site ComingSoon.it has posted a photo gallery from Ender’s Game, including a slew of new photos including behind the scenes images and that one photo of Valentine I remembered from the set visit! Above, Ender enters Battle School as a Launchie.

We saw this photo on the wall at the Ender’s Game Experience. Graff comes to the Wiggin home to recruit Ender.

This image was also at the Ender’s Game Experience in the form of a gigantic wall mural.

Mazer and Ender look at the simulator while Petra awaits orders.

Valentine looks up at a mobile of Formic ships in Ender’s bedroom.

Behind the scenes: Asa Butterfield stands at the gate with director Gavin Hood.

Gavin Hood stands with a camera on the set of Ender’s Game.

October 9, 2013
MTV Exclusively Reveals 5 New ‘Ender’s Game’ Stills

MTV has just released 5 new Ender’s Game stills including Ender in his final battle (with Alai, Petra, and Bean!) and the teachers behind him. See all five images below!

They’ve also included bits and pieces of storyline for us to obsess over.

In his new post with the Salamander Army, Ender meets Petra (Hailee Steinfeld), one of the only girl enlistees. The two begin training together, with Petra serving as a sort of mentor to young Ender. Later, when Ender is given his own command over Dragon Army (which it appears we see here), Petra is among his troops, and he relies heavily on her expertise in the computer-simulated exercises meant to replicate war against the Buggers.

Thanks to Ender News for the tip!

October 2, 2013
Hi-Res Version of Ender, Graff, and Mazer

Thanks to La Stratégie Ender on Facebook, we now have a high-res version of the still from Entertainment Weekly’s Fall preview of Ender’s Game, which shows a rather rigid looking Mazer Rackham watching Ender get reprimanded by Colonel Graff.

October 1, 2013
PHOTO: Ender and Bean as Launchies in the Battle Room

The LA Times has published a set visit report and an interview with director Gavin Hood and gives us a bit more insight on how he came up with the Battle Room’s design. In addition to that, we have a photo of Ender and Bean in the Battle Room!

As written in the novel, the Battle Room feels like a big, dark room, and the “Ender’s Game” combat situations unfold on something akin to personal computers.

“You had to feel it was the real thing — not a video game on a screen,” Orci said. “Visually, it had to be visceral, a you-are-there experience.”

Hood says two chance visits to Los Angeles landmarks — Griffith Observatory for a planetarium show and Disney Hall for a symphony concert — helped him solve two of his most pressing visual obstacles.

During the planetarium show, Hood realized that the battling spaceships could fly around Ender and his subcommanders like so many spinning galaxies inside the domed Griffith theater, immersing the cast (and the audience) in the clashes. And in watching Gustavo Dudamel lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the filmmaker figured out that Ender could conduct his team of pilots as if he were guiding them through a prestissimo symphony — front and center, orchestrating everyone’s movements in harmony.

Hood’s production designers also enveloped the Battle Room with panoramic windows, so that the cadets were both figuratively and literally floating amid the stars. “What is the point of going into space and being stuck in a black box?” Hood said.

You can read the entire piece at LA Time’s Hero Complex.

August 30, 2013
PHOTO: Graff Greets Battle School Students

Check out this hi-res image of Harrison Ford addressing Battle School students. Since they’re dressed in yellow, these are likely Launchies. As for the video they’re watching, it’s likely Mazer Rackham’s Run:

Thanks to Summit for the image! This image first appeared in the print edition of Empire magazine.

July 26, 2013
PHOTO: Petra and Ender in Training

It’s a little weird that I was just writing another article speculating about Ender and Petra and then this pops up as well. What do you think is going on in this photo? Is this perhaps when Petra warns Ender that he’s in danger?

Since we’ve seen in the trailer that the kids train in these outfits, it’s safe to say that’s what they’re dressed in here. And hey look, Adidas survived the Formic Invasion!

Source: Collider

July 12, 2013
PHOTO: Ender and Petra at the Gate

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

July 12, 2013
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.

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.

June 4, 2013
PHOTO: Mazer Rackham with Digital Battle Screen

With the trailer just five days away, the digital marketing for Ender’s Game is certainly heating up, with a Google+ Hangout planned with director Gavin Hood, producer Bob Orci, and star Asa Butterfield to attend. I’m happy to announce that I will also be part of the hangout along with a few of my fellow fansite admins to do a Q&A with the “fleet”.

Yesterday, EW.com gave us the first look at Mazer Rackham and today Summit has just published a different version of what appears to be the same image with one vital difference.

There’s a digital battle screen behind him! You can see on the bottom right a Win/Loss score (with no losses!) and targets for various star systems on the screen. Perhaps this is a glimpse of Ender’s Eros simulator?

Post your thoughts in the comments!

May 2, 2013