While you guys are probably watching the trailer over and over, there’s something about seeing it on the big screen that makes it feel so much more intense and real.
We’ve confirmed with Summit that the Ender’s Game trailer will be making its theatrical debut with Elysium, out this weekend on August 9. Keep in mind that trailers will vary from theater to theater and in my experience, people rarely get the trailer you want by going to a midnight release.
Good luck!
Ah…. finally! Are you guys still on a trailer high? Here are 405 hi-res screencaps of the new trailer! Enjoy!
Watch the trailer in HD!
First came the teaser of the teaser. Then the teaser. Then the trailer of the trailer. Now, today, we finally get the full theatrical trailer for Ender’s Game, out in theaters 86 days from today.
Shoot straight.
Stay calm.
Here we go!
To confirm, this is the trailer that was shown exclusively at San Diego Comic Con. If the above embed does not work, click HERE.
Or watch the YouTube version:
After you watch it a few (dozen) times and calm yourself down, be sure to tell us your thoughts! To celebrate, we’re giving away three EnderWiggin.net bookmarks and two Ender’s Game dog tags to… how many lucky winners?
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Now that you’ve had a taste of tomorrow’s upcoming trailer debut, here are 103 screenshots from the preview! Enjoy!
True to its in-movie/in-book counterpart, Dragon Army has unlocked the exclusive preview of the new trailer!
Click below to view it, Dragon Army or not. 😉
AMAZING, right? The full trailer will debut online tomorrow, August 6, 2013 at 9 AM PT/12 PM ET on iTunes.
In the ongoing debate about Orson Scott Card’s anti-gay stance and the Skip-Ender’s-Game boycott, Gavin Hood has weighed in again in an interview with The Advocate, one of America’s leading LGBT news magazines. The article focuses on the fact that Card’s views seem in many ways to be the polar opposite of what the book is about and stresses the parallels between Ender’s experience and the experience of young gay people everywhere of having to reconcile the way they are with the values and beliefs of their loved ones. Says Gavin Hood:
The story of Ender is really a young person in search of his identity and in search of his own moral compass. And so for me, it is so ironic that the writer of the work that has helped so many [young] people, gay and straight, to find empowerment, to feel empowered, to find their own moral compass — it’s very sad that he, himself, is struggling with these issues. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that in struggling with these issues, he wrote a great book.
But while it may be ironic, Hood does not seem to be surprised by the discrepancy.
Frankly, that’s not unusual. Great art usually rises above the weaknesses and failings of its creators.
Repeating a sentiment that we have previously heard from producer Bob Orci, Hood goes on to voice his support for the current debate, saying that while he understands the boycotters’ stance, he would rather they watch the movie and use the difference between Card’s views and the messages of the book as a starting point to engage in a fruitful debate about LGBT issues.
[W]e would not be having this conversation if we hadn’t made Ender’s Game, and that’s the way you change societies, when you engage in meaningful conversation. So I’m thrilled we’re having this conversation […] And wouldn’t it be amazing if we could turn this thing into what the book is really about? […] As stressful as this is, it’s achieving, in a twisted way, exactly what we set out to do [namely tell a story about compassion and embracing difference – my note].
While quite a few reader comments on this article are unsurprisingly disparaging I am very pleased to see that a leading LGBT news outlet such as The Advocate is acknowledging the complexity of the issue and voicing a positive attitude towards the book and its positive message of tolerance and compassion.
Read the entire article HERE!
Source: The Advocate
The other day, Forbes did an article about how they do something pretty cool called the “Fictional Fifteen” in which they determine who are the richest fictional characters out there. And while Ender unfortunately did not make the list (he’d have ranked #1, beating out the likes of Scrooge McDuck and Carlisle Cullen) because of too many unknown factors, they did lay out how they came to the conclusion that he’s worth about as much as Bill Gates at a cool $66 billion dollars.
After the Formic War in Ender’s Game, there was a lot of geopolitical strife, conquest and wars. But at the end of it all, Ender’s brother Peter Wiggin created a one-world government. It’s stated in the books that Starways Congress was basically the next step in evolution from that government, so we’ll say that the Yen became the world’s official currency when Peter Wiggin ended up running everything.
Card’s universe post-Ender’s Game is remarkably geopolitically (and technologically) stable. Three thousand years in the future, the only technology that’s really advanced significantly is genetic engineering –in part because humans took advanced technology from the alien Formics, but never figured out the physics of why that technology worked. So we’ll operate under the assumption that the economics of Ender’s universe is similarly stable.
So now we can make a guess at the value of the Yen before it was used as the base for the new Starways Congress dollar, and figure out how Ender’s year 5189 net worth of $400 trillion SCD translates to 2013 U.S. Dollars.
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Ender’s $400 trillion Starways Congress dollars are worth about 16,920,473,773,265 modern-day Yen. If we convert that to U.S. dollars at the 1985 exchange rate, the figure we arrive at is a little more than $66.6 billion. That means Ender Wiggin’s is worth about as much as Bill Gates.
Don’t we all wish even more now that we had a friend like Jane?
Read the full article at Forbes.com. Thanks to Anthony for the tip!
You may have seen me gushing about it on Twitter. On EnderCast, I may have talked about how it made me cry and scream and tremble like an idiot. The “new footage” at Comic Con was a trailer, not a clip. That trailer is now set to make its online debut next Tuesday, August 6, 2013.
Are you ready for it? It’s got explosions, Formics, the Great Invasion, Valentine, Ender, arguments between the teachers, and much more. And you’ll have seen it in less than 4 days.
Source: Mashable
Ho launchies! The first Battle School army challenge has begun!
Log in and share your Battle School badge to help your army unlock an exclusive new preview of the Ender’s Game trailer that was shown exclusively at Comic Con.
I’m not sure the rankings are accurate, as the first time I logged in, ASP was far in the lead and now it’s Dragon. Hopefully they’ll fix it and we see more accurate rankings! The army that has the most points by Monday 8/5 will unlock the exclusive preview of the trailer.
To compete, go to IF-BattleSchool.com.
After counting down the last couple of days, the final Ender’s Game poster has arrived!
Be sure to tell us your thoughts on this poster! Is it everything you wanted? Does it make you emotional because it means we’re just 90 days from release?
For me, the poster looks cool, but I admit to being slightly disappointed that it’s so similar to the first one. Still, love the new tagline!
Source: IGN
Those of you that loved the Ender’s Game trailer music can now listen to the track titled ‘Opus’ by Erich Lee of Hi-Finesse, a movie and video game music production company in Santa Monica, CA.
It’s always been a mystery to me how trailer music is done. Sometimes you just hear mixes of songs, but a lot of trailers seem to have custom music not done by the film’s composer. Hi-Finesse composes custom music scored to picture, so it sounds like the trailer is cut and the music scored around it. No wonder it seemed to flawlessly integrated!
Interestingly enough, Opus was also used in the Percy Jackson trailer, which was released well before the Ender’s Game trailer.
It’s not quite so obvious, playing in the background, so I have no idea! It really sounded like Opus was scored specifically for Ender’s Game and maybe they used it for Percy beforehand?
You can listen to their work on Soundcloud. See if you can recognize the following tracks from other film trailers this year!
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Thanks to @Asmrant for the tip last month! Sorry I was too busy to post it earlier!
According to the official Ender’s Game facebook site, the final Ender’s Game movie poster is going to be revealed exclusively by IGN tomorrow at 9am PST / 12pm EST. That’s less than 24 hours, folks!
Where: IGN website