2. Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card’s massively popular novels, Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow will finally reach the big screen after over twenty years of development and multiple scrapped scripts, under the singular title of Ender’s Game. Gavin Hood, director of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was brought onto the project by producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman to draft a new script and direct the piece.
Set 70 years after a galactic war, Ender’s Game follows Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, a gifted child sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future war against insect aliens called Formics, also known as Buggers. So, a small boy learns to fight buggers? Sounds like a bit of an allegory to me, but that’s an embellishment too far. An ensemble cast led by Asa Butterfield as Ender includes Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Aramis Knight, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis and Abigail Breslin.
Production ran from February to June 2012 in New Orleans with a surprise voice over cameo by author Scott Card shot in May. Originally destined for a March 2013 release the film was then pushed back to November. With the recent bankruptcy of Digital Domain, the effects house dealing with the film’s plentiful futuristic setting it may be delayed even further.
Ender’s Game is scheduled for release on November 1, 2013 and will benefit from a simultaneous IMAX release.
Continue reading on the next page…
