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  • Harrison Ford on Why Ender’s Game is Still Relevant Today

    Harrison Ford on Why Ender’s Game is Still Relevant Today

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    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

  • Bob Orci on Filming the Unfilmable Book

    Bob Orci on Filming the Unfilmable Book

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    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

  • Hailee Steinfeld On Building a Backstory for Petra

    Hailee Steinfeld On Building a Backstory for Petra

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    Zap2It managed to get a short interview with Hailee Steinfeld during Comic Con. In addition to chatting about training for the battle room scenes, Hailee talked about building a backstory for Petra. This is what she had to say:

    It was really fun building a backstory for her …. We had so much freedom and so much time to do that with Gavin. He was so great in sort of helping us. He had so much to sort of bring to the project from his own personal experiences. So much about him had so much to do with my character and sort of exploring her and getting to know her

    Read the rest of the interview write-up HERE!

    Source: Zap2It

  • Asa Butterfield On the Hardest Part of Shooting

    Asa Butterfield On the Hardest Part of Shooting

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    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