Crystal is back with her Weekly Ender! Turns out that Comic Con was waaaay to hectic to do one of these – we are still struggling to catch up on and provide you guys with all the material that SDCC turned out. In this installment, Crystal presents her new Weekly Ender “set” and iPhone ringtone, gives a brief summary of her time at Comic Con and shows off some of the stuff she got there. (Watch out for the amazing giveaway announcement!) Plus, there is a brief review of Shadow Puppets.
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The Weekly Ender #9
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IGN to Unveil Final ‘Ender’s Game’ Poster on 8/2
According to the official Ender’s Game Twitter account, the final poster for Ender’s Game will be unveiled by IGN in two days on August 2nd, 2013.
I.F. SECURE TRANSMISSION: In 2 DAYS, tune-in to @IGN for the final #EndersGame poster reveal! pic.twitter.com/6Oyp0ANeIs
— Ender's Game (@EndersGameMovie) July 31, 2013
What do you hope to see on this poster? The full cast? Just Ender? Ender and Dragon Army?
And just what is that behind the countdown?! Tell us your thoughts!
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Reminder: Take the Battle School Aptitude Test
This is a friendly reminder to take the Battle School aptitude test at IF-BattleSchool.com to get your army assignment, Launchies!
Not sure if it was there when it first launched, but at the top of the site is a notice that the first “challenge” will commence on 8/2. That’s this Friday! What do you guys think we’ll be doing? What do you want it to be?
Also, here are the four Facebook cover images that they provide in case you want to use them:
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GALLERY: 100 Screencaps of ‘Mazer Rackham’s Run’
Here are 100 hi-res screencaps of the official film clip Mazer Rackham’s Run that Summit debuted at the Ender’s Game Experience at San Diego Comic Con 2013. Watch the video below!
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GALLERY: 66 Screencaps of ‘Battle School Needs You’
Here are 66 screencaps from the recent video ‘Battle School Needs You’, which can be viewed below:
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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.”
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“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!
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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
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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
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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
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Roberto Orci and Gavin Hood on Adapting Ender’s Game
While at Comic Con, producer Bob Orci and writer/director Gavin Hood sat down for yet another Ender’s Game interview, this time with FirstShowing.net’s Alex Billington. This interview focuses almost exclusively on the challenge of adapting Orson Scott Card’s complex book for the silver screen. Here are some of my favorite parts.
Bob Orci on why the time is right for an Ender’s Game movie:
[Audiences ha]ve seen everything. They are tired of the usual fare. This is a book that has a unique structure and has complicated themes. But it’s also a grand space adventure.
Gavin Hood on the different media:
The tricky thing in the adaptation of this is how do you make these characters and what’s going on in their heads real on screen when you can’t use what the author can use, which is lots of description of what he’s thinking. … [H]ow do I use different tools, the tools of cinema — lensing, long lenses. When do I go tight? When do I go wide? What kind of structure do I put into the scene? How do I put these characters against each other? To generate the same feeling in the audience that those descriptive passages generate in the book.
Check out the rest of the interview HERE.
Source: FirstShowing.net
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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.
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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
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Bob Orci on Filming the Unfilmable Book
During the obligatory Comic Con press line, Ender’s Game producer Roberto Orci talked to Zap2It about spoilers in the trailer, sequels, and the Orson Scott Card controversy. Asked about why this new script was the right one to finally make an Ender’s Game movie when the book had always been called unfilmable, he answered this:
I heard various pitches of the movie over the years that totally changed the ending and made it like ‘Star Wars’ in a sense, like totally like ‘and then they go and they blow up the Death Star,’ essentially. Completely changed what the intent of the book was. … We just thought audiences have seen everything nowadays. They’ve seen all the big spectacle, now they can handle this movie, and it’s still spectacle but it’s still a young protagonist in an adult situation dealing with war and peace and tolerance and all kinds of other things.
Check out the rest of the interview HERE!
Source: Zap2It
