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  • VIDEO: Gavin Hood on Why ‘Ender’s Game’ Could Be Made

    VIDEO: Gavin Hood on Why ‘Ender’s Game’ Could Be Made

    Gavin Hood spoke to HeyUGuys UK on what drew him to the project of Ender’s Game.

    I am not per say, a sci fi fan, for me, I love the fact that this is a story that’s set in the future which allows us to explore ideas that the story deals with in a way that would be perhaps too uncomfortable to deal with if we explored them in the modern context. So for me it doesn’t really matter if a story is set in the future or set in ancient Greece or set on one continent or another. What matters is that the environment is a helpful, visual way of telling what is essentially a timeless universal story about characters interacting with each other. Human beings have evolved their technology, but emotionally, we haven’t evolved that much.

    Source: HeyUGuysUK

  • VIDEO: Watch an Extended Version of ‘Ender’s Army’

    VIDEO: Watch an Extended Version of ‘Ender’s Army’

    At the Odean in London tonight, the cast and crew of Ender’s Game presented some footage from Ender’s Game, including this extended version of Ender’s Army. In the new footage, Graff tells Ender Dragon Army will consist of misfits like him.

    Source: @AP2HYC

  • Countdown to NovEnder Day 7: Ender’s Game Movie Tie-in Edition

    Countdown to NovEnder Day 7: Ender’s Game Movie Tie-in Edition

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    It’s now 25 days to Ender’s Game and our friends across the pond had an exciting night at the Ender’s Game Q&A in London! Watch for a write-up from EnderWiggin.net staffer Joni soon.

    In the meantime, it’s Day 7 of our Countdown to NovEnder and today we’re giving away a copy of the Ender’s Game movie tie-in edition thanks to Tor/Macmillan. This giveaway is open to the US and Canada.

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    How to Enter

    Each day, check the Rafflecopter widget for the various ways you can enter and make sure you are eligible. After you complete each task, you must log in your entry in the widget or it will not count. We’ve put in a wide variety of methods for you to enter and for some you can enter once every day of the giveaway.

    You MUST leave an email address that you check frequently so that you can claim your prize within 72 hours. Please DO NOT comment with your email address in your comment.

    For today’s giveaway, simply comment and tell us whether you plan to re-read the book before the movie or if you’re going in as-is. Or, if you haven’t read the book yet, do you plan to read it before seeing it on the big screen?

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  • Download ‘Ender’s Game’ Pumpkin Stencils for Halloween

    Download ‘Ender’s Game’ Pumpkin Stencils for Halloween

    Anyone who knows me knows that I get a little crazy around Halloween, especially when it comes to pumpkins. Years ago I saw what you can do and began breaking my back creating elaborate pumpkins for my myself and my family.

    Eventually I started realizing that carving a ridiculously hard design on a real pumpkin is devastatingly hard work and depressing since pumpkins in Hawaii rot in about a day or two. Eventually I started doing foam pumpkins for the special designs, but I do still carve real pumpkins for the kids.

    This Halloween, I’ve made some Ender’s Game pumpkin stencils for you guys to download and try out. Later this week I will be releasing the full details for the October 31st Countdown to NovEnder contest, which will of course be my favorite type of contest all year: an Ender’s Game Pumpkin Carving Contest!

    Here’s a sample of what they look like!

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    [Download EnderWiggin.net’s Ender’s Game Halloween Pumpkin Stencils here]

    If you make one before I announce the full rules, make sure to take photos and proof photos (so I know you made it yourself).

  • Listen to Sappho Rise from ‘Battle School Needs You’

    Listen to Sappho Rise from ‘Battle School Needs You’

    Listen to the full track Sappho Rise by David Joseph Wesley in the video below. The music was used in the International Fleet propaganda video ‘Battle School Needs You’ (also below).

    Thanks to Fernanda for the find! David Joseph Wesley has done trailer music for several films including Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon and has also done quite a bit of work in the music department for American Idol.

  • VIDEO: Ender’s Game Cast and Crew in Madrid

    VIDEO: Ender’s Game Cast and Crew in Madrid

    Several members of the Ender’s Game cast along with director Gavin Hood and producer Bob Orci were in Madrid on October 4th to promote El Juego de Ender. Watch video below from the photocall:

    Here is another of better quality:

    Thanks for Fernanda for the finds!

  • SPOTTED: Ender’s Game Cups at AMC Theatres

    SPOTTED: Ender’s Game Cups at AMC Theatres

    The marketing push is finally on! Photos of Ender’s Game AMC cups have been showing up on Twitter. With cast touring Europe and doing a Q&A tomorrow in London, plus TV spots being shown on various network channels, it’s starting to look like we’ll soon be seeing Ender’s Game everywhere!

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    Photo by @blakelouup.

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    Photo by @carriebthh87.

  • Countdown to NovEnder Day 6: Ender’s Game Mini Poster

    Countdown to NovEnder Day 6: Ender’s Game Mini Poster

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    We’re 26 days away from the release of Ender’s Game and the Countdown to NovEnder continues with a giveaway for an Ender’s Game mini poster. This giveaway is open to the US only.

    Later this week we’ll be launching the big contest for the October 31 prize pack which includes a ton of amazing stuff you won’t want to miss, so keep an eye out!

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    How to Enter

    Each day, check the Rafflecopter widget for the various ways you can enter and make sure you are eligible. After you complete each task, you must log in your entry in the widget or it will not count. We’ve put in a wide variety of methods for you to enter and for some you can enter once every day of the giveaway.

    You MUST leave an email address that you check frequently so that you can claim your prize within 72 hours. Please DO NOT comment with your email address in your comment.

    For today’s comment, simply tell me who your favorite character besides Ender is!

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  • VIDEO: Harrison Ford Talks Ender’s Game on Wetten Dass …?

    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

  • VIDEO: New Ender’s Game clip from Wetten Dass …?

    VIDEO: New Ender’s Game clip from Wetten Dass …?

    As we reported earlier today, Harrison Ford was a guest on German TV show Wetten Dass …? (“Bet you that …”) Host Marcus Lanz interviewed him on Ender’s Game, and they showed some awesome, beautiful, mind-boggling new footage! Check out the clip below!

    Translation:

    Graff: The first alien attack found us unprepared. Millions of innocents lost their lives. That can never be allowed to happen again. We fought the enemy with everything we had and in the middle of the final battle a legendary hero emerged. The courage of Mazer Rackham should be an inspiration to all of you. We need minds like yours, Ender. Young people process complex data much easier than adults.
    Ender: So I’m not the first?
    Mazer: No, but you will be the last.
    Petra or Ender: In 3 – 2 – 1.
    Graff: And you will be the best commander we ever trained.

    And we finally get to see the images that go with some of the score we posted about a couple of days ago. This explains why the “Battle Room” track is so light-hearted. Look how happy Ender is!

    Hope you enjoy! We’ll post a vid of the interview that goes with this clip tomorrow! — Dee

     
    Source: ZDFneo

  • Countdown to NovEnder Day 5: Ender’s Game Static Clings

    Countdown to NovEnder Day 5: Ender’s Game Static Clings

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    We’re 27 days from release and it’s time for Day 5 of EnderWiggin.net’s Countdown to NovEnder. Today we’re giving away FIVE sets of four Ender’s Game static clings (it will be a random mix) from Comic Con 2013. This giveaway is open worldwide.

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    How to Enter

    Each day, check the Rafflecopter widget for the various ways you can enter and make sure you are eligible. After you complete each task, you must log in your entry in the widget or it will not count. We’ve put in a wide variety of methods for you to enter and for some you can enter once every day of the giveaway.

    You MUST leave an email address that you check frequently so that you can claim your prize within 72 hours. Please DO NOT comment with your email address in your comment.

    For today’s comment, simply tell me which clings you hope will be in your set of four if you win!

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  • Harrison Ford to Appear on Wetten Dass …?

    Harrison Ford to Appear on Wetten Dass …?

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    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.

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    Source: ZDF Mediathek, Morgenpost

  • GALLERY: 37 Screencaps from ‘Ender’s Army’

    GALLERY: 37 Screencaps from ‘Ender’s Army’

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    We hope you’ve enjoyed our exclusive debut of the first clip from Ender’s Game titled ‘Ender’s Army’. Here are 37 hi-res screencaps of the clip!