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EnderCast Episode # 26 – Shoot Straight, Stay Calm
Totally forgot to post this guys, so this is for those of you who haven’t seen it on Facebook/Twitter/Youtube or/and who’d like to be reminded to listen to the funniest EnderCast episode yet: Episode 26, titled “Shoot Straight, Stay Calm” (uh, I love that line in the trailer).

Crystal and Kelly managed to convice Aramis Knight (Bean) and Khylin Rhambo (Dink) to come on the show to talk about the brand new trailer. Needless to say, hilarity ensues. The guys even agreed to battle it out during Pop Quiz: Fart Eater! I’m still laughing about that one.

Our hosts talk to the guys about
- what it was like to see the effects in the trailer for the first time,
- what scene brought tears to Aramis’ eyes,
- who is who in the Eros command center,
- the first look at Admiral Chamrajnagar (and how that is pronounced) and
- who the shield-and-shooter pair in the battle room scene actually are.
The Pop Quiz, Fart Eater showdown at the end is probably the best part of the episode. Don’t miss it!

Listen to the episode HERE!
August 9, 2013
Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld Talk Flash Suits and Heights

We keep hearing talk about how hot the flash suits were and recently talked to costume designer Christine Bieselin-Clark about how they had to wear another layer under the suits too! In this interview with USA Today, Asa and Hailee go into further detail on what it was like to work in the wire harness and the flash suits.

The filmmakers used rigs to hoist the actors and make them feel as if they were in space. “If you’re scared of heights, you just had to get over it,” Butterfield says. “There’s nothing you can do about it. We all had a great time up there.”

Steinfeld recalls about three months spent on wires “floating around, flipping around, being thrown into pads.”

“And shooting people,” Butterfield says.

“The list goes on,” says Steinfeld, who plays Petra Arkanian, Ender’s friend at Battle School. “I don’t really think we had time to worry about it.”

“I guess we don’t really know any different,” Steinfeld says. “It is very uncomfortable and hard at first, to say the least.”

[…] “It was like a sauna,” Butterfield says.

Because of the sound, filmmakers couldn’t run air conditioning to keep them cool, says Steinfeld, though Butterfield notes that they did have fans in their 8-pound helmets, “which kept it from fogging up.”

[…]

“I doubt they were comfortable 50 years in the future,” Butterfield figures.

“Yeah, I don’t know how we managed,” Steinfeld adds before giving him a high-five. “Maybe we’ll see. We’ll go to space in 50 years and see if the spacesuits are comfortable.”

Read the whole interview at USA Today.

Definitely sounds like they had a tough time doing the Battle Room scenes, but from what we’ve seen in the trailers so far, it looks pretty fantastic. And to think I thought my flight suit costume was too hot!

July 30, 2013
VIDEO: Harrison Ford Talks Working With Asa Butterfield

During Comic Con, Popsugar managed to catch Harrison Ford for a tiny one-question interview. Watch what he had to say about the young cast in general and Asa Butterfield in particular.

Source: Popsugar

July 30, 2013
VIDEO: Hailee Steinfeld Talks About Bonding With Asa Butterfield

While at Comic Con, Popsugar caught up with Hailee Steinfeld to ask her a few quick questions about her work on Ender’s Game. She talks about what drew her to the project, bonding with Asa Butterfield, and working with “Mr. Ford.”

Source: Popsugar

July 30, 2013
VIDEO: Asa Butterfield Talks Training and Harrison Ford

More Comic Con videos! Watch Asa talk to Popsugar about the “coolest stuff to film,” training for the battle room, the characters’ ages, and being intimidated by Harrison Ford!

Source: Popsugar

July 30, 2013
EnderCast Episode #24 – Return to Battle School
Our third and final San Diego Comic Con podcast is up and ready for you to listen to! For this episode, we had an epic cast of guests including:
- Aramis Knight (Bean)
- Jimmy Jax Pinchak (Peter Wiggin)
- Suraj Partha (Alai)
- Cameron Gaskins (Pol Slattery)
- Khylin Rhambo (Dink Meeker)
- Brandon Soo Hoo (Fly Molo)
- Conor Carroll (Bernard)
- Caleb Thaggard (Stilson)
Things we talked about included:
- Their thoughts on the Ender’s Game Experience
- Brief overview of each of their characters
- On working with Gavin Hood and the type of director he is
- Violence!
Listen to the episode HERE.
July 29, 2013
Harrison Ford on Why Ender’s Game is Still Relevant Today

During Comic Con, Harrison Ford found the time to talk briefly to Zap2It about why the book and consequently the movie was (still) relevant today. Ford commented on general social as well as political issues in the book that speak to a contemporary audience. Here is what he said:

[Y]oung people are very curious about the future and their place in the world and how they’re going to fit in and their utility to their culture, and they’re very suspicious of the older generations and the uses to which they’re going to be put, and curious about their future and anxious about their future. This movie deals with all of those issues and more.

I think [the book] was prescient in recognizing [drone warfare] as a potential issue in the future because of what was written 25 years or so ago. I don’t think it’s a metaphor.

Ford goes on to talk about special effects and some of his iconic roles. Read the rest HERE!

Source: Zap2It

July 29, 2013
Hailee Steinfeld On Building a Backstory for Petra

Zap2It managed to get a short interview with Hailee Steinfeld during Comic Con. In addition to chatting about training for the battle room scenes, Hailee talked about building a backstory for Petra. This is what she had to say:

It was really fun building a backstory for her …. We had so much freedom and so much time to do that with Gavin. He was so great in sort of helping us. He had so much to sort of bring to the project from his own personal experiences. So much about him had so much to do with my character and sort of exploring her and getting to know her

Read the rest of the interview write-up HERE!

Source: Zap2It

July 29, 2013
Asa Butterfield On the Hardest Part of Shooting

During Comic Con, Zap2It caught up with Asa Butterfield for a quick interview about the filming of Ender’s Game. When asked about filming the dramatic climax of the movie, he had this to say:

Shooting that was probably the hardest part about filming, and it was near the end of filming. It was hard and reading the book gave me a lot of insight and ideas about how to play it.

Check out the rest HERE!

Source: Zap2It

July 29, 2013
Ender’s Game Cast Watch #7 – Power of Youth

This week’s cast watch mostly revolves around yesterday’s Variety Power of Youth event. Abigail Breslin was honored as one of five young performers for her involvement in Project Sunshine, a charity for children with disabilities, HIV and other special needs. Here is Abigail with her co-honorees Jake Austin, Quvenzhane Wallis, Nina Dobrev and Tyler Posey.

At the event, Abigail met up with her August: Osage County costar Dermot Mulroney …

… and probably with some of her Ender’s Game buddies, because it seems that Aramis Knight and Khylin Rhambo were also in attendance. Khylin tweeted this “epic” picture of himself with Percy Jackson‘s Brandon T. Jackson and The Maze Runner‘s Dexter Darden.

Aramis met up with some friends and then posed with Tyler Posey (pun intended), tweeting: “Everyone thinks I look like this guy.” I wonder why everyone thinks that … oh wait, BECAUSE YOU DO!

Apparently, Abigail Breslin played matchmaker for Aramis Knight at some point around the time of the event. Hmm, very cryptic.

In other news:

Abigail Breslin did a photoshoot with The Icon Magazine. Looks amazing.

Asa Butterfield is shooting a new movie, modding Skyrim, and letting himself be stung in the lip by wasps. (I’m still waiting for photos.) Hailee Steinfeld is seeing Bruno Mars tonight. And the Jimmy Jax Pinchak Band just started playing at the Venice Beach Summer Fest 2013. Check their WEBSITE for upcoming gigs.

PS: If you are at Venice Beach right now, Jimmy is signing a limited number of Ender’s Game posters after the gig!

Sources: Variety; Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

July 28, 2013
PHOTO: Graff and Ender

Since we are posting new stills today, check out this picture of Ender and Graff showing them shortly before Ender enters the battle room.

This image appeared in the special Comic Con edition being handed out in the San Diego Gaslamp Quarter during Comic Con.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

July 26, 2013
PHOTO: First Picture of Ender and Alai

I know the quality sucks a bit, and we’ll try to get a better quality one as soon as possible, but we didn’t want to keep this from you. This is the first time we’ve seen Ender and Alai together in character in the movie! The picture was taken quasi by accident by the folks of Collider, who actually just wanted a photograph of the Ender’s Game Experience classroom desks. Be that as it may, this is proof that Ender and Alai’s friendship is acknowledged in the movie!

Source: Collider

July 26, 2013
VIDEO: Harrison Ford and Bob Orci with Josh Horowitz

Since I cover The Hunger Games, I end up watching a lot of videos of MTV’s Josh Horowitz, who is a fantastically hilarious nerd. When I heard he’d done an interview with Harrison Ford I knew immediately it would be good, but I had no idea it would be 20 minutes long. Watch the entire hysterically funny video of Josh interviewing Harrison Ford and Bob Orci of Ender’s Game below. It’s got weird things called telephones, nerd quizzes, and Harrison’s thoughts on the con.

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In case the video above doesn’t work, HERE is a write-up of it by Josh Horowitz. It lacks most of the giggling, but the content is there.

Source: MTV

July 26, 2013