Well, screen play and director are in and casting so far

Harrison Ford: they want him for unknown role, I'd guess Mazer
Asa Butterfield (kid from Hugo): Ender
Hailee Steinfield (girl from True Grit): Petra

Gavin Hood: Writing/directing..directed Wolverine

Produced by the guys who did Star Trek.

So far A+ casting choices for the children.

12/1/2011 7:38:58 PM

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"Asa Butterfield (kid from Hugo): Ender"

Doesnt matter to me what the kid looks like. Just as long as they can act!

12/1/2011 9:42:02 PM

Without big budget special effects, I can see this sucking.

12/1/2011 9:47:46 PM

I think this has been in development for the better part of the decade in various incarnations...I'm a bit skeptical it ever makes it into production.

12/1/2011 9:49:10 PM

This is a terrible idea and I hope this movie never happens because it has absolutely no chance of doing the book justice.

12/1/2011 10:24:31 PM

I doubt it'd be Mazer. He's supposed to be aboriginal, right?

I'd think Harrison Ford for Graff.

Also, I think the largest issue for the special effects is going to be the null-G. I can't think of a movie yet where it looked believable, and it's plot significant at several points in the story.

All that aside: DO WANT.

Also, subsequent release of Ender's Shadow film.

[Edited on December 1, 2011 at 10:37 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on December 1, 2011 at 10:40 PM. Reason : .]

12/1/2011 10:36:00 PM

I think it's going to be incredibly difficult to get that many children together who are capable of pulling this kind of acting off. If they can do it correctly, I'd love to see it.

12/1/2011 10:36:54 PM

Isn't card really protective of this project? Skeptical but yea, DO WANT

12/1/2011 10:55:37 PM

Orson Scott Card is a huge fucking tool and I'd love to see him get a bomb movie, but if they can muster up semi-competency for this I will see it. Big budget would be needed for the appropriate effects. Considering how many times people have tried or wanted to do this and been shut down, I'm skeptical if this will get made.

[Edited on December 1, 2011 at 11:39 PM. Reason : f]

12/1/2011 11:39:14 PM

^^^^ Yeah, Mazer was Maori, but it's not like Hollywood gives a shit about that sort of thing.

^^^ Not having enough good child actors who are young enough was one of the main reasons OSC has cited about not letting the project go forward in the past, so yeah, I'm still skeptical about whether this eventually gets made or not. But if it does, I'll go into the theater with cautious optimism.

12/2/2011 12:43:19 AM

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"This is a terrible idea and I hope this movie never happens because it has absolutely no chance of doing the book justice. "

wah wah wah don't fucking see it.

12/2/2011 12:49:22 AM

Mazer was Maori in the book = hollywood casts Daniel Craig to play the part

12/2/2011 7:55:04 AM

I feel kind of bad defending changes that Hollywood makes to book adaptations, but does whether or not some dude is Maori really matter to telling the story? Why should they care? Those sorts of minor details really only bother the die-hards and let's face it. That group will find something to be upset about.

We've all seen this thread before. I lump this movie into the same category as the One Star Wars Tree Hill teen soap/drama that's always out there on the horizon. I've got a friend that gets really excited about that project whenever there's an announcement but I never share the enthusiasm because: one, it's officially hit boy who cried wolf status because every time it is announced it's "for real this time" or "already written/filmed/cast/etc" and two, you know it's going to suck anyway.

Then again I thought that about the Hobbit. THEY'RE DOING THE HOBBIT. Yeah, yeah, whatever.

12/2/2011 8:05:00 AM

Shit, I'd be satisfied if they put Cameron Diaz as Mazer if they could make her do a transformation like

12/2/2011 8:28:50 AM

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"Orson Scott Card is a huge fucking tool"

this...but i'd suffer an (even more) egotistic osc if it meant an amazing incarnation of ender's game in movie form

also, asa butterfield was in the BBC's merlin series and from what i recall, he was pretty good...i think he has a special look that will do well as ender

and hailee steinfield was great in true grit...i approve

BUT WHO WILL BE BEAN?

12/2/2011 8:45:08 AM

If they do this, I hope they at least film some of the places in Greensboro that made the book. Some of the landmarks would be nice to see (the real ones, not the Hollywood version).

OSC did a book signing in Greensboro a few years back. He seemed pretty nice in person, but I think you have to seem nice at a book signing...

^I've not read Bean's series but I wonder if this is a one shot deal, or they're keeping the rest of the series (both) in mind for casting.

[Edited on December 2, 2011 at 9:06 AM. Reason : ]

12/2/2011 9:05:18 AM

I would love to see Ender and his family enjoying some Yum Yum's ice cream

12/2/2011 9:13:38 AM

Ha. That was one of my minor quibbles with the book. He skimped on detail throughout the whole book (which is fine, you can go overboard to Tolkienesque levels of detail) but then out of left field he gets down into specific detail when mentioning how to get to some restaurant. It was enough to stand out to me at the time, but it's been at least a decade since I've read the book, so I have no idea if that particular memory is off-base.

12/2/2011 9:40:25 AM

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"OSC did a book signing in Greensboro a few years back. He seemed pretty nice in person, but I think you have to seem nice at a book signing..."

Yea, he's not a nice person in the slightest. An egotistic bigot, if anything, and frankly his writing is mediocre--Ender's Game is a youth sci-fi series, his insistence that he is a literary god is nothing short of completely wrong. I've been to too many writer's conferences with him to have anything less than spite. His colleagues in the sci-fi field also have little respect for him, including NCSU's own master sci-fi author, who probably knows him better than most others (having worked with him a long time in NC and just been exposed to his general douchebaggery).

That being said, I would watch a good adaptation of the film. And like always with lit to film, I don't care about fundamental adaptations--people who insist on films exactly mirroring books do not understand the differences at play.

12/2/2011 11:48:46 AM

HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE (will watch)

12/2/2011 5:50:22 PM

Ben Kingsly confirmed as Mazer.
Harrison Ford rumored for Graff.

12/9/2011 2:57:49 PM

I heard rumors of this happening YEARS ago when Haley Joel Osment was still young enough to be up for the roll of Ender. Kind of glad it is finally happening but I can see this turning to shit real fast.

1/19/2012 12:37:56 AM

^You hear rumors because they've tried to shoot it five different times over the years with hugely different casts.

1/19/2012 1:42:22 AM

and it never goes through because OSC is a dick

sounds like he might finally have decided he'd like the money

1/19/2012 8:42:04 AM

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"Part 1 - The film will come out a year from now November 2013. The movie is shot and wrapped. - Orson has a small one line voice-over role in the film as a pilot. This is during a scene where Ender and Graff are on their way to “Fleet Headquarters”(1) - The above scene isn’t in the book, and furthermore Card notes that effectively NONE of the scenes(2) from the movie are from the book and vice versa. - The Battle Room scenes will be very limited in scope and complexity and there is not likely to be more one complete battle(3). “It’s about the characters. it’s about the relationships… which is what the book is about.”(4) - While on set Card watch Harrison and Asa perform some scenes. He stated that the mic was really close and they spoke in low voices. “That’s because most of this is going to be close-ups…”(5)"

I'm worried this will suck

[Edited on December 5, 2012 at 12:09 PM. Reason : a]

12/5/2012 12:06:38 PM

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"BUT WHO WILL BE BEAN?"

They should shoot Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow simultaneously so that if they release it later the kids won't have aged.

Or maybe just make it all part of the same movie?

12/5/2012 12:19:38 PM

Speaking of same movie...

I haven't kept up. What does "Part 1" in ^^ mean?

1) Part 1 of the article reporting on the movie.
2) Part 1, they're splitting Ender's Game into two movies (glwt).
3) Part 1 is Ender's Game, part 2 is Ender's Shadow, etc.

12/6/2012 7:38:06 AM

12/16/2012 2:00:55 PM

<3 the book

fingers crossed for the mpvies

12/16/2012 4:04:33 PM

http://www.endersansible.com/2013/02/20/exclusive-enders-game-movie-still-featuring-ender-and-petra/





That’s Dink Meeker (Khylin Rhambo) sitting on Ender’s right.
That’s Ender’s bully, Commander Bonzo Madrid (Moises Arias) of Salamander Army, sitting on Petra’s far left at the end of the table.
This person in yellow is reminiscent of the girl from the first Ender’s Game movie still. This might be Colonel Graff’s assistant.
These students in the corner appear to have two army logos (a red, and a few teal-colored logos) different from the army logos released yesterday. Any guesses as to what armies these soldiers belong to?
Based on the army logos on the scoreboard and the gauge next to them, we believe the scoreboard is showing a battle between Rat and Asp Army with Rat Army in the lead.
This circle appears to represent a single spherical battle room. Those colored rectangles on either side of the circle are probably the enemy gates. Remember, the enemy’s gate is down.
Those white shapes in the center of the circle probably represent the placement of ‘stars’ or floating obstacles in the middle of the battle room.
There appear to be only eight students to each army, one commander and seven additional soldiers. There are a total of forty-one students to each army in the Ender’s Game novel.
We can’t make out that list on the bottom, but it might be army ranks or the ranks of individual soldiers.
Click the picture and take a look at the full size image for an up close of that food. We think it looks like breakfast.
Bonus edit: We’ve received confirmation that the student standing in the far upper right is Commander Pol Slattery of Leopard Army (Cameron Gaskins).

[Edited on February 20, 2013 at 7:52 PM. Reason : l]

2/20/2013 7:50:52 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Breslin

as valentine

2/21/2013 4:51:06 AM

ben kinglsey isnt maori

and suraj parthasarathy isnt black ...


outside of that i feel pretty ok with the cast

3/12/2013 5:13:56 AM

3/25/2013 5:01:39 PM

5/1/2013 5:17:15 PM

i guess that counts as maori ...

5/1/2013 5:32:23 PM

First trailer comes out next Tuesday.

5/1/2013 9:46:09 PM

so the zero grav battles are not going to an integral part of the film but the 1st poster has Ender about to enter a zero grav battle thats fucked up

5/2/2013 12:59:16 AM

OSC has also said virtually none of the book scenes are in the movie.

5/2/2013 1:10:16 AM

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"ben kinglsey isnt maori"

He's not Indian, either, and he won an Oscar for playing Gandhi.

5/2/2013 4:13:33 AM

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"ben kinglsey isnt maori"

Already stated, I don't understand why the guy must be Maori so when I see that picture the only thing that comes to mind is "Why does Ben Kinglsey have a bunch of lame facial tattoos" not "Oh, that guy is Maori." It just seems like a forced minor detail from the book, looks bad on Ben Kingsley IMO.

5/2/2013 10:29:53 AM

I thought Ben Kingsley was half-Indian.

It's not like there's a massive pool of Maori actors that could play the role of a grizzled war veteran. At least they have Kingsley playing as a Maori instead of trying to change the ethnicity of the character.

5/2/2013 2:55:35 PM

5/2/2013 3:25:34 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0OHtH_RWnZE

10 seconds of footage from the movie.

5/3/2013 6:45:10 AM

5/3/2013 9:26:54 AM

Yeah, I thought about Cliff Curtis and even browsed around a bit for a more general Polynesian pool, but I always viewed the role of Mazer as being a grizzled old veteran. Curtis seems too young for the role.

5/3/2013 9:53:55 AM

5/3/2013 6:46:14 PM

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"I thought Ben Kingsley was half-Indian."

His dad was of Indian descent, but was born in Africa and lived most of his life in Britain. However you want to figure it, it's something less than half.

5/3/2013 8:33:47 PM

So what exactly is the spoiler policy in this thread

5/3/2013 8:46:13 PM

SPOILER ALERT:

OSC is a Mormon who hates gays.

5/3/2013 9:02:04 PM

however, he writes great books about the plight of smart kids.

5/4/2013 5:45:12 AM