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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Tag: San Diego Comic Con
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VIDEO: Asa Butterfield Talks Training and Harrison Ford
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!
Source: Popsugar
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Bob Orci on Filming the Unfilmable Book
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
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Asa Butterfield On the Hardest Part of Shooting
During Comic Con, Zap2It caught up with Asa Butterfield for a quick interview about the filming of Ender’s Game. When asked about filming the dramatic climax of the movie, he had this to say:
Shooting that was probably the hardest part about filming, and it was near the end of filming. It was hard and reading the book gave me a lot of insight and ideas about how to play it.
Check out the rest HERE!
Source: Zap2It
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PHOTO: First Picture of Ender and Alai
I know the quality sucks a bit, and we’ll try to get a better quality one as soon as possible, but we didn’t want to keep this from you. This is the first time we’ve seen Ender and Alai together in character in the movie! The picture was taken quasi by accident by the folks of Collider, who actually just wanted a photograph of the Ender’s Game Experience classroom desks. Be that as it may, this is proof that Ender and Alai’s friendship is acknowledged in the movie!
Source: Collider
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Ender’s Game Cast Watch #6 – Comic-Con Edition
Last week was pretty much all about Comic Con, and apart from Moises Arias and Abigail Breslin (who was sick and had to cancel only a day before she was scheduled to be on the panel) pretty much every one of the young cast was there. You have probably already seen tons of stuff, but in case you still haven’t had enough, have some more!
To start off, Cameron Gaskins (Pol Slattery) posted an awesome group pic of the minor cast hanging out together after signing autographs for an hour on Saturday.
As I said, pretty much everyone was there.
After the signing, the cast member went around a bit at Comic Con, doing their own thing. Khylin Rhambo‘s thing, it seems, is taking pictures with random cosplayers. I see Batman-girl, Iron Man, and Spidey, and is that Assassin’s Creed? I’m not much of a gamer, so you have to tell me.
Aramis Knight, on the other hand, signed more autographs while he was at it. Someone you don’t see in the group pic, but who was there at the singning as well, is Jimmy Pinchak. He took the time to visit the Ender’s Game Experience, signing up under the name of Peter Wiggin. Looks like Peter made it into battle school after all.
The rest of the cast eventually went to the Experience as well. Aramis Knight met up with Asa Butterfield to reenact the launchie shuttle experience. I kind of doubt, though, that this is what it will look like in the movie.
Speaking of Asa Butterfield, he seems to have enjoyed Comic Con to the fullest. However, in this pic, taken on their first day, he and Hailee Steinfeld seem to still be confused about what’s what at SDCC.
I’m not sure whether this was taken before or after Asa and Hailee did the Ender’s Game Experience press preview, of which you’ve probably seen loads of images. Maybe you’ve even seen that awesome vid in which they walk through the sets, and in which Asa delivers his by now Tumblr-famous line “like a banana.” Wednesday night, he, Hailee and a few others attended a party organized by Summit. Here’s proof:
Yeah, selfies are never quite what you expect them to be. At least they had fun before they had to get back to Hall H-paneling, Interview-giving, photoshoot-posing and all those other tedious things that I’m sure are a big hassle.
After a few days of hard work, Asa got to spend his last day at Comic Con undercover, finally being allowed to release his inner nerd and hang out with the REALLY cool people.
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Harrison Ford On Comic Con, Graff, and Hollywood
In a recent interview with Moviefone (Asa and Hailee did one, too), Harrison Ford talks about Colonel Graff, how he compares to other character’s he’s played over the years, and the Hollywood studio system. The interview is pretty standard fare, but Harrison Ford is HILARIOUS!
My favorite part has to be this:
I wanted to switch gears a bit …
[Smiles] I thought you might.[Laughs] It’s not exactly what you expect — at least I am hoping it’s not. It may start out like that but …
[Laughs] It won’t end up like that!OK, but give me a chance!
Take your best shot.Your earlier movies still make news today — “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones,” etc. My question to you is…
[Harrison begins drumming on the coffee table in front of him][Laughs]… is there one movie of yours that you wish got more attention than those movies?
That I wish got more attention? No. Well, there were movies that I think were good movies that did not receive as much attention at the time. I don’t think I remember any… oh, the one that comes to mind is “Mosquito Coast,” which I think was a really good movie and perhaps didn’t receive as much attention as it might have.Read the rest of the interview HERE!
Source: Moviefone
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VIDEO: Asa and Hailee On Training, Costumes, and Aging the Characters Up
In this brief interview with Clevver TV, Hailee is talking about the training the young actors did prior to filming as well as the costumes and sets of Ender’s Game, while Asa comments on Ender being aged up and the scene he is most excited about fans seeing.
Also, check out Clevver TV’s Comic Con red carpet gallery featuring stars from Ender’s Game (and Divergent) HERE!
Source: Clevver TV
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VIDEO: Hailee and Asa On Geeking Out On Set
More videos from Comic-Con are being uploaded every day on youtube and various entertainment sites. Among them are a bunch of flash interviews with Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld, which apparently were all held in the same room in the same time slot. Watch interviews by Hitflix and MoviesDotComOfficial HERE and HERE!
Personaly, I love this one with CraveOnline because it asks some nerdy questions about the coolest sets and moments during the filming of Ender’s Game and how hard it was not to geek out around SciFi movie icon Harrison Ford. Watch Asa and Hailee having loads of fun answering those questions below.
Source: Youtube
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VIDEO: Graff Welcomes Launchies to Battle School
In this clip from San Diego Comic Con, exclusively revealed by Yahoo Movies, Graff greets new students to battle school, introducing more of the before seen footage of the First/Second Invasion. Looks like they will indeed make the name and story of Mazer Rackham as important and ever present in the minds of the kids as it is in the books!
Read Yahoo’s accompanying article here: Harrison Ford Delivers Ender’s Game Gravitas in a Comic-Con Exclusive!
Source: Yahoo Movies
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First Look at the Battle Room Stars
Blogger Mike Pierce (from iwatchmike.com), a.k.a. mikethemovieguy on Twitter, has made it his job to hang around the Summit booth and the Ender’s Game Interactive Experience to provide us all with footage on how everything is coming together.
Watch Mike’s socialcam video below for your very first look at the battle room stars! Look how huge they are!
Mike also talks about some interesting rumors concerning “some interactive people there who are playing the characters.” We have wondered why some of the cast members were rumored to be going to Comic Con, but weren’t listed in the official autograph signing line-ups. Could this be where they’ll be hanging out?
Follow Mike on Twitter (@mikethemovieguy)!
Source: Mike’s Twitter
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Summit Teams Up with HGTV for Ender’s Game Home Makeover
As we’ve discovered earlier today (see photo above), Summit has teamed up with Home and Garden TV for its Ender’s Game Experience. According to several news outlets, Summit and HGTV have issued a press release concerning HGTV’s involvement in the Experience as well as the home makeover visitors can hope to win.
Inside the “Ender’s Game” activation, located outside the Hilton Gaslamp district, HGTV showcases its “Journey Begins at Home” space—an interpretation of the Wiggins home living room—among eight elaborate, specially constructed, unique rooms that represent the most iconic environments of Ender’s world, complete with original film props and set pieces used in the movie.
Visitors will be able to “enter the sweepstakes for the chance to win $10,000 courtesy of HGTV for their own “out of this world” home makeover.”
Sources: CNBC, The Slanted
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VIDEO: Building the Ender’s Game Experience
San Diego, California News Station – KFMB Channel 8 – cbs8.com
Watch the Ender’s Game Experience come together in San Diego, just in time for Comic Con. They are building the entrance to the battle room! Thanks to CBS8 for the story and to Darian (@Darian_Robbins) and Fernanda (@franiahs) for the tweets!
