Jimmy Kimmel live has released video of Harrison Ford’s recent guest appearance on the show. Ford is doing the rounds for his new movie ’42’, but things went awry when an unexpected audience member began confronting Ford in a language only he seemed to understand.
Watch the video below for the hilarity that ensued! You don’t want to miss it!
David Trumbore of Collider had a phone interview with Asa Butterfield today and they talked at length about how it was working with director Gavin Hood and what it was like acting with such a large cast of kids.
Gavin is an amazing director. I haven’t worked with a director like him. Whereas other directors are quite passive with how they let their actors work, Gavin – especially because he wrote the screenplay – he already knew exactly how he wanted the characters to be. Of course he let us bring our own ideas to it. He was always very enthusiastic, he was always encouraging us, he was always there on the stage. If we needed motivation he was there shouting at us … not angry, just to get the right emotion. Because there were a lot of child actors on the set, the enthusiasm that he brought really got us into that sort of mindset, so it was really helpful.
Asa also comments about what it was like working with Harrison Ford and Sir Ben Kingsley.
I had far more scenes with Harrison than I did with Sir Ben. Sir Ben’s character’s only in it in the last third of the film, but they’re both amazing.
Of particular interest is his mention of the scene where Ender disobeys orders and we get to hear a bit of detail on how that scene has been adapted for the film.
One scene that I really remember is a scene with me and Hailee (Steinfeld). We’re in the Battle Room. She’s hit her head on one of the floating objects. I’ve jumped out … I’ve disobeyed my orders and jumped out to catch her. When I hit her, we start spinning. Of course, in zero gravity, there’s nothing to slow you down.
Overall it’s a fantastic interview, so be sure to check out the entire thing over at Collider. Hopefully we’ll see more interviews with the cast start to come out after the awards ceremony tonight.
Springtime is apparently the season for Ender’s Game cast birthday celebrations as Moises Arias (Bonzo Madrid) is celebrating his 19th birthday today.
Happy birthday Moises from EnderWiggin.net! Hope the day is amazing and the year to come even better!
CinemaCon is in full swing in Las Vegas and Variety spoke to the various actors receiving special recognition at the convention going on this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. Among those they interviewed are three Ender’s Game cast members.
Harrison Ford, who is receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award, was quick to point out that Ender’s Game is different from Blade Runner.
“It’s just a whole different canvas — no replicants — and character and world view.”
Asa Butterfield, who will be given the Rising Star Award, gave high praise to the script, which he read while studying hard in school.
“It was the best script I’d read, and I thought how much fun it would be to be in zero gravity with laser guns.”
And last but not least, Hailee Steinfeld, who will be recognized as the Female Star of Tomorrow, talked about the fun of hanging with a cast of mostly boys her age.
“At that point I’d wanted to work with kids my age, and was looking forward to it,” she recalls. “The catch is that they were all boys, so it was 3½ months with a bunch of guys, which is not a bad thing.”
Lionsgate’s product presentation is on Thursday, but still no word on whether anything new from Ender’s Game will be released.
Source: Variety via Ender’s Ansible
Today is April 14, which means Abigail Breslin, our dear Valentine Wiggin, turned 17 today.
Happy Birthday, Abigail! Hope you have a wonderful fun-filled day.
Valentine baked him his cake on his sixth birthday. It fell and it was terrible. Nobody knew how to cook anymore, it was the kind of crazy thing Valentine would do.
Fortunately for you, people still know how to bake, unlike the times that Ender and Valentine were living in, so here’s hoping you have a delicious cake today!
The 9th episode of EnderCast is now available on EnderCast.com!
This week we welcomed our very first author guests, interviewing David Lubar and Alison Myers, authors of Parallax Regained in the newly released Ender’s World. Topics we discussed with them included:
Ender’s Game Google Alerts are usually pretty boring. Book reviews and book reviews and more book reviews. Occasionally something really cool comes up, like an Ender’s Game themed baby shower!
Here are some Ender cupcakes, which are really cool!
There were a ton of desserts, all with cute little Ender’s Game themed named like Dink Meekerons (macarons) and PeterButter and Jelly Stars.
You can check out all the photos on Twinkiechan.com.
So I guess my question is, if this is the couple’s first baby, is it being named Peter or Ender? 😉
Orbit Books in the UK has acquired the prequels for Ender’s Game and revealed the UK covers today.
Earth Unaware:
And here is the cover for Earth Afire:
Both books will be released in the UK on June 4, 2013.
Thanks to a tip from co-author Aaron Johnston for this!
Source: Orbit Books
So back when I was 17 years old, which I’m sad to say was a whopping 17 years ago, I created my very first fansite on Geocities, which kind of what you could call the 1990s version of GoDaddy, and it was all about the 1996 Romeo + Juliet.
It’s weird then, that Hailee Steinfeld (Petra), who I got to meet in New Orleans last May, is Juliet in a 2013 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. I’m a total sucker for the story, even almost two decades later since it remains my favorite Shakespeare play, so I was pretty excited to see the first trailer, even if it’s in poor quality. This is actually the first footage of Hailee since her amazing debut in True Grit, which is kind of hard to believe. Hailee looks amazing as Juliet!
It’s actually kind of funny that Claire Danes was Juliet in 1996 and now Lord Capulet is being played by Damian Lewis. (You’ll only get that if you watch Homeland)
Okay, so I lied a little and this isn’t a huge big POSTERPALOOZA like I said in the headline, but I just wanted to use that made up word cause it sounds so hysterical. Posterpalooza.
Posterpalooza.
Hahaha! Anyway… as I mentioned before I have 9 total posters to give away. I gave away three of them with my Easter Egg Battles and now it’s time to give away three more.
This one is pretty simple. With CinemaCon coming up next week, tell me what you’re hoping will happen at the con. We know that Hailee Steinfeld, Asa Butterfield, and Harrison Ford are all receiving awards so they’ll be there for sure. But press will most certainly get to interview them and then there’s the Lionsgate presentation on the 18th that hopefully features at least one of the cast members.
So comment here and tell me what you hope to see/hear next week and then log your entry into the Rafflecopter widget below. After you do that, you can do the extra entries.
Good luck!
Actor Asa Butterfield, who plays Ender Wiggin in the movie, released an iPad game called Racing Blind this past weekend that he designed with his brother Morgan and father Sam. (view the demo above) The game is for all ages as Asa has been tweeting about how his little sister Loxie has beaten his older brother at the game on more than one occasion.
The game costs 99 cents and is available in the iTunes App Store.
For social media, you can follow @RacingBlind and find them on Facebook.
If you don’t already own the Kindle or Nook version of Ender’s Game, the ebook is on sale now for $3.49.
Although I own a hardcover and a paperback of Ender’s Game, having the ebook version is very handy because it allows you to search the book easily (how else do you think I was able to count all the instances of the word “love” for Valentine’s Day?) and you can access it on your phone as well with the Kindle app.
Buy the ebook on Amazon or at Barnes & Noble.
Those of you that commented and guessed the results of the Egg Army fights can now view the results here. Winners are announced under the video!
Sadly, I suspect my kids’ Egg Launchie status skewed the results a bit, so everyone who commented got at least one entry.
Random winners drawn from all entries:
Since there’s no contact info for Rick and Hannah, you guys will have to email me at valentine @ enderwiggin.net with your address information to claim your prize! Congratulations!