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  • ‘Ender’s Game’ Set Photos; Young Mazer Wraps

    ‘Ender’s Game’ Set Photos; Young Mazer Wraps

    Keen observers on Twitter may have noticed a few new photos from the set of Ender’s Game, which is nearing completion in New Orleans, Louisiana. Actor Kyle Clements (@kyle_clements) tweeted that he wrapped his Ender’s Game scenes yesterday. He plays the young version of Mazer Rackham, who is played by Sir Ben Kingsley.

    Bob Orci and David Coatsworth

    This is a photo of producer Bob Orci (left) talking to executive producer David Coatsworth (right) tweeted by @ManSafGo. You can see in the background that the entire area is painted green for filming!

    David Coatsworth

    The last of these photos shows above-mentioned David Coatsworth having lunch with his phone.

  • Brandon Soo Hoo Wraps Fly Molo on ‘Ender’s Game’

    Brandon Soo Hoo, who plays the character Fly Molo in the film adaptation of Ender’s Game, tweeted today that he’s finished shooting his scenes for the movie, which is currently filming in New Orleans, Louisiana.

    Follow Brandon on Twitter @bsoohoo.

  • Can Teenager Asa Butterfield Play a Young Ender?

    Can Teenager Asa Butterfield Play a Young Ender?

    It’s already been made clear by early casting calls for the film adaptation of Ender’s Game that Ender has been aged up from 5 to 10.

    Obviously, finding the right five year-old actor to portray the child genius Andrew could have kept the movie in limbo for yet another 20 years no matter how strong the script, so aging him up is an understandable change to a science fiction classic that has been a favorite of readers for decades.

    Asa ButterfieldStill, when it was announced that Asa Butterfield had been offered the key role, I have to admit I had reservations. Sure, he looked the part of an older Ender, but could he play the younger Ender as well?

    Pictured right, Butterfield looks like a teenager. It’s moderately difficult to see how this young man could pull off being so young. Past pivotal young male roles were cast pretty close to their character’s ages. Haley Joel Osment was 10 when he filmed The Sixth Sense and his character was 9 years old. Macaulay Culkin was 9 when he played 8 year-old Kevin McCallister. Butterfield looked very young in Hugo, but his character was twelve years old.

    Fourteen years old when he was cast and just recently turned fifteen this April, could Asa Butterfield be made to look like he is a young 10 year-old boy? Photos posted to Twitter today seem to support that the answer to that is a convincing yes.

    Asa Butterfield and Aramis Knight

    This photo was posted by Asa Butterfield (left) and Aramis Knight (Bean, right) today and Asa does look a lot younger with his military hairstyle, though it could be the angle and camera filter playing tricks on the eyes. It could just be the expression on his face.

    What do you think, folks? Does he look like he can pull off 10 years old? After seeing the photos posted today, my reservations have definitely begun to fade away.

    Hopefully we’ll get a real photo of Ender soon. Everyone cross your fingers for next week!

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  • Happy Birthday to Moises Arias

    Happy Birthday to Moises Arias

    Sending out birthday wishes to young actor Moises Arias, who plays Bonzo Madrid in Ender’s Game. Hope you have a fun-filled day!

    Arias turns 18 today.

    Fans can follow Moises Arias on Twitter @ImNotMoises.

  • First Look at Ender Wiggin’s Bedroom

    First Look at Ender Wiggin’s Bedroom

    Ender's Room

    For this week’s production entry on Ender’s Game blog, we get a look at Ender’s bedroom, which is full of knickknacks, space decals, and model planes.

    The more futuristic the world, the more invisible its technology. So why shouldn’t Ender’s room look just like any normal kid’s room?  And not every future is a dark dystopia.  The world that Ender lives in is a world worth saving.  That’s why he is willing to leave his family to go into an orbiting Battle School and risk not seeing his sister, Valentine, again until they are both adults.

    I like that they gave him a modern room. I’ve never really imagined Ender’s home to be dystopian and run down.

    We will keep your room for you just as you left it, Ender…

    In other news, cast member Khy Rhambo tweeted that today they worked on Salamander Army scenes in the Battle Room.

    Amazing day of shooting with our flash suits @ImNotMoises @HaileeSteinfeld @asabfb @bsoohoo Salamander all day son !!!

  • ‘Ender’s Game’ Production Blog Posts Space Camp Photo

    ‘Ender’s Game’ Production Blog Posts Space Camp Photo

    Space Camp

    The production blog for Ender’s Game, which seems to be operating on a weekly Wednesday posting, put up a new photo of the cast in a simulator while attending Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama.

    “Houston, we have a problem.  We don’t know how to land the Shuttle.” Good thing it’s just a simulator safely on the ground at SPACE CAMP in Huntsville, Alabama.  Aramis, Moises, Asa & Suraj (pictured above from a monitor in the MISSION CONTROL ROOM ) and the rest of our cast agreed that to do Ender’s Game right, they had to train as though they were really headed into ZERO G.  And this wasn’t just an afternoon spent taking a vanity tour. From the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), which simulates extra-vehicular shuttle missions in Earth’s orbit, to the microgravity training chair that prepared astronauts for moonwalks during the Apollo program, the week at Space Camp was genuine prep for the feeling of reality that this movie deserves. And after all, the army that trains together stays together.

    From left to right seated in the photo: Aramis Knight (Bean), Moises Arias (Bonzo), Asa Butterfield (Ender), and Suraj Parthasurathy (Alai).

  • Happy Birthday Asa Butterfield!

    Happy Birthday Asa Butterfield!

    Asa Butterfield

    Happy Birthday to our Ender Wiggin, Asa Butterfield, who turned 15 today! We share a birthday, so happy birthday to us!

  • Battle School Scenes in Production

    Battle School Scenes in Production

    From the sound of tweets from the actors currently on set of Ender’s Game, production is likely working on Battle School scenes.

    Star Asa Butterfield tweeted that he was on his second day on set with his toon leaders Bean (Aramis Knight), Petra (Hailee Steinfeld), Fly Molo (Brandon Soo Hoo), and Alai (Suraj Parthasurathy) along with his friend Dink (Khylin Rhambo) and stern commander Bonzo Madrid (Moises Arias).

    What do you think they’re working on? Battle Room? Mess hall? Can you picture them all watching him play Giant’s Drink?

    So far there’s been no further updates to the production blog that launched a week ago on Tumblr.

  • Abigail Breslin Attends Screening for ‘The Hunger Games’; Wraps Shooting?

    Abigail Breslin Attends Screening for ‘The Hunger Games’; Wraps Shooting?

    Abigail Breslin, who plays Valentine Wiggin in Ender’s Game, recently attended a secret screening for Lionsgate’s big blockbuster The Hunger Games in New York City. The young actress tweeted recently about having fun filming:

    “Had so much fun filming #endersgame with @asabfb @andipowell @jimmyjaxpinchak @ImNotMoises @AramisKnight88 @surajpartha @bsoohoo @Khy_Rhambo Connor, the director Gavin and the whole amazing crew! :)”

    Since Valentine has only minimal scenes, it sounds like she’s already wrapped her portion of filming, especially she’s been tweeting how much she’s missed them since departing on March 13.

  • Brendan Meyer Drops Out of ‘Ender’s Game’

    Brendan Meyer Drops Out of ‘Ender’s Game’

    Due to a last minute scheduling conflict, actor Brendan K Meyer, who had previously been cast as the schoolyard bully Stilson, announced via his Facebook page that he would be dropping out of the production for Ender’s Game.

    A replacement for Meyer has not yet been announced.

    Via Yahoo! Movies

  • ‘Hugo’ Starring Asa Butterfield and Ben Kingsley Out on DVD

    ‘Hugo’ Starring Asa Butterfield and Ben Kingsley Out on DVD

    Five time Academy Award winning film Hugo, starring Ender’s Game stars Asa Butterfield (Ender) and Ben Kingsley (Mazer Rackham) is out today on Blu-ray and DVD.

    If you haven’t had a chance to see Asa in anything yet, this would be a great movie to do it with since it’s his most recent work before Ender’s Game and is so highly acclaimed. The film also stars Chloe Moretz, Jude Law, and Sacha Baron Cohen.

    Hugo is also available on Amazon Instant Video for $3.99 or at your local Redbox kiosk.

    About Hugo:

    Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

  • Viola Davis Joins ‘Ender’s Game’

    Viola Davis Joins ‘Ender’s Game’

    Viola Davis, the actress who was recently nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as Aibileen in The Help, has officially joined the cast of Ender’s Game. Davis has signed on to play a psychologist at the Battle School who monitors their mental health and designs the games that they play while attending the school.

    Davis has had a successful career in both movies and television, having played a recurring character on the show Law & Order: SVU and she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Academy Awards in 2008 for her role as Mrs. Miller in Doubt.

    What do you guys think? Will she be a villain type doctor or will she be one of the few adults sympathetic to Ender’s predicament behind the scenes?

    Source: CinemaBlend

  • Unconfirmed: Brandon Soo Hoo Cast as Fly Molo

    Unconfirmed: Brandon Soo Hoo Cast as Fly Molo

    Brandon Soo Hoo

    According to a cast list on IMDB, 16 year old Brandon Soo Hoo will be taking on the role of Fly Molo, one of Ender’s toon leaders in Dragon Army.

    IMDB can be edited by the general public with a paid membership, so casting on the site isn’t always reliable when it hasn’t been confirmed elsewhere, so this is still unconfirmed. In the books, Fly Molo was supposed to be of Filipino descent, so it’s possible that the casting information simply has him named as the wrong character and he’s to play Han Tzu (Hot Soup) instead, another toon leader.

    A skilled martial artist of Chinese descent, Soo Hoo has done work on G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Tropic Thunder. He holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

    What do you think? Has he been mislabeled as Fly Molo or have the writers merged Fly Molo and Han Tzu into one character?

    Update: Brandon Soo Hoo will in fact be playing Fly Molo in Ender’s Game.

    Source: IMDB