Since I’m home sick with a sore throat and a really manly sounding croaky voice, there’s no Weekly Ender this week. Here’s a few new Battle School Facebook images for your Monday, though! If you want to read the first ones, go to Part 1.
Poor Mazer gets no respect…
Dap fails at recruiting a new teacher.
Ender really getting under Mazer’s skin.
And finally, bored with Fairyland and all those creepy wolf children, Ender moves on to something else.
Following up on our last post about the Spanish language Ender’s Game Poster, I went and found some more different language versions. Check out the German, French, and Russian posters below! (Click for larger images.)
Thanks to @franiahs for showing me a photo of the Mexico version of the Ender’s Game poster titled El Juego de Ender, which led me to look for the poster online. Has anyone else seen a different version in a different country? I tried looking for La Stratégie Ender and Das große Spiel, but unfortunately didn’t find one for either.
Seems like I’m doing a whole lot of welcoming these last 24 hours! I’m now happy to announce that EnderWiggin.net now has yet another staffer, Joni from the UK! Joni will be posting news under the name Novinha, which happens to be her favorite character from Speaker for the Dead! Please join me in giving yet another warm welcome to her!
The site staff is growing, but I’m still looking for someone in the New York area! If interested, email me at valentine at enderwiggin.net!
I’m very happy to announce that EnderWiggin.net finally has a second staff member! Diana, who is from Germany and will be posting under the name Anderson, will be helping out as a Junior Reporter here on the site. Please join me in giving her a warm welcome!
If you are interested in working on EnderWiggin.net, I am looking for staff members in the UK and on the East Coast, particularly New York. Interested applicants can email me at valentine @ enderwiggin.net.
In this week’s EnderCast episode, Kelly and Crystal talk to Wool author Hugh Howey. Hugh is a longtime Ender’s Game fan and came on to chat about the long wait for the movie and his hopes for his own book to film adaptation for Wool. He speaks about:
He also willingly participates in Pop Quiz, Fart Eater. Listen to the episode here.
Happy Friday, Launchies! Here’s an alternative book cover designed by Koala-Tee on Deviantart, done as an art project in school.
Aaron Johnston, co-author for the First Formic War books wrote a piece about the children who inspired Battle School on publisher Tor’s blog.
In Earth Unaware, we met seventeen-year-old Victor Delgado, an ingenious mechanic who risks his life to warn Earth. We also met his cousin, fourteen-year-old Edimar, who discovered the Formics’ approach.
In Earth Afire, we meet Bingwen, the most Enderlike child yet — a dirt-poor, eight-year-old farm boy from a tiny rice village in southeast China. Through his association with Bingwen, Mazer Rackham comes to realize what children truly have to offer. And the rest, as we say, is history. Or in our case, the future.
If you read my review for Earth Unaware, you’ll see that I thought Bingwen was one of the best parts of Earth Afire, though I did find him to be closer to Bean than Ender as Aaron mentions.
He also talks about how they had to keep in mind what would cause the world to willingly give up their children to a military program like they do in the Enderverse. It’s something I’d always wondered about myself and it’ll definitely be interesting to hear in the subsequent books just how the IF convinces the world that the ultimate sacrifice is necessary for humanity’s survival.
Read the full editorial at Tor’s blog.
Moises Arias talked with The Hollywood Reporter about The Kings of Summer and Ender’s Game, which is out on a wider release today and briefly talked about how to portray a character from a book. “You read the book, you read the script, they’re two different art forms.”
He also had great things to say about his time on set. “That was probably one of the most memorable experiences for me. I do believe that I’m going to be very different from what people were predicting, but I think it’s going to be a different flavor to what Bonzo is. I’m just happy that I got the opportunity.”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Check out the trailer for Paranoia, a new movie starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Liam Hemsworth.
Synopsis:
The high stakes thriller Paranoia takes us deep behind the scenes of global success to a deadly world of greed and deception. The two most powerful tech billionaires in the world (Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman) are bitter rivals with a complicated past who will stop at nothing to destroy each other. A young superstar (Liam Hemsworth), seduced by unlimited wealth and power falls between them, and becomes trapped in the middle of the twists and turns of their life-and-death game of corporate espionage. By the time he realizes his life is in danger, he is in far too deep and knows far too much for them to let him walk away.
Paranoia hits theaters August 16, 2013.
AOL has posted a 30 minute interview with Moises Arias in which he talks briefly about Ender’s Game and Bonzo.
Right before this film, I was doing Ender’s Game and they shaved my head on the last day of shooting, which led to that weird haircut in the film [Kings of Summer] and previously the director was like, “Don’t cut it before you come to set.” and I showed up with that in between stage of it actually growing out and it just being buzz cut and it ended up working. I look very sexy.
So while it’s a small little tidbit, it is interesting that they’d shave his head on the last day of filming. It would mean that he’s got a full head of hair (which we’ve seen in set pictures) for basically the whole movie and then for whatever reason, they suddenly wanted him to have a buzz cut.
What do you guys think this could mean? Does Bonzo shave his head because Ender drives him over the edge? Does he do it just before his fight with Ender? Or does the Battle School do it after the fight as a result of the fight?
Moises also talks about his career and about how grateful he is to his parents and family for the support they’ve always given him in pursuing his dreams. He then talks to two fans about the evolution of his career.
Source: AOL
After my failed attempt at getting you guys some free bumper stickers yesterday, I decided to just start up a full blown CafePress store for the site. You can now visit http://www.cafepress.com/endernet and browse various items featuring the EnderWiggin.net logo. (don’t worry, it’s just the logo, not the site name)
If you’ve got a dad who is 1) a big Ender’s Game fan and 2) the resident griller, then I’ve got a particular item that might be of interest to you for Father’s Day, coming up in just 10 days!
Yes, that’s an apron with a silly take on the famous Ender’s Game tagline, “The enemy’s GRILL is down”, and a flaming EnderWiggin.net logo. You can buy one from CafePress for just $22.99 plus shipping.
If you’d like a closer look at the design, here it is below:
I realize it doesn’t actually make sense, but hopefully it brings a smile to your face anyway. 😀
While the Ender’s Game trailer may have gotten all us fans riled up, it’s also gotten people interested in the book again. The book, which was just re-released with a movie tie-in cover, is #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list under Paperback Mass-Market Fiction!
It’s really amazing to see the book topping the list after all these years! More Ender fans, yes!!
Source: @SummitEnt