The marketing push is finally on! Photos of Ender’s Game AMC cups have been showing up on Twitter. With cast touring Europe and doing a Q&A tomorrow in London, plus TV spots being shown on various network channels, it’s starting to look like we’ll soon be seeing Ender’s Game everywhere!
Photo by @blakelouup.
Photo by @carriebthh87.
We’re 26 days away from the release of Ender’s Game and the Countdown to NovEnder continues with a giveaway for an Ender’s Game mini poster. This giveaway is open to the US only.
Later this week we’ll be launching the big contest for the October 31 prize pack which includes a ton of amazing stuff you won’t want to miss, so keep an eye out!
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For today’s comment, simply tell me who your favorite character besides Ender is!
As promised, here is Harrison Ford talking about Ender’s Game on Wetten Dass …? last night in Bremen. He is pretty hard to understand due to the tranlsator’s voice being much louder than his own, so there’s a transcript below the vid. Enjoy!
Translation/Transcript:
Host: A young boy is asked to save the world. What is the general idea behind this?
Ford: He does save the world. This takes place in the future. Obviously it’s a kind of science fiction, but I think unlike the kind of science fiction you see, you’ve seen before, it has real heart and emotion. It’s, I think, a very powerful story about a young man who learns leadership, the challenges of leadership. I play the man who’s responsible for training him. It proposes that in the future, there is a world government and we have a combined military force, the International Fleet. And we have been invaded once before by an alien life form that you got a brief glimpse of there [in the CLIP they aired before] and suffered real damage from this alien life form, and we know they are coming again. And the proposition is that young people really integrate complex data more quickly than adults. So the soldiers, or warriors, of this period are fighting with drone warfare. The book, which is 28 years old, and this is a bestseller, predicted the internet, predicted touch screen technology, predicted drone warfare. And all of that has come true, and its a … the story is very compelling.
Host: A very interesting story, of which we shouldn’t give away too much, and a very visionary book this film is based on. The movie will have its great opening in Germany on October 24th.
I had hoped for a bit more information concerning the production of the movie, his co-stars etc., but I guess between having him talk about Indiana Jones and his planes and having him bet on whether a guy could throw five eggs over a beer tent and catch them on the other side with a frying pan, there just wasn’t enough time to talk about this movie some more. Meh. Still, it’s something, and we got an awesome clip with that.
Source: ZDFneo
As we reported earlier today, Harrison Ford was a guest on German TV show Wetten Dass …? (“Bet you that …”) Host Marcus Lanz interviewed him on Ender’s Game, and they showed some awesome, beautiful, mind-boggling new footage! Check out the clip below!
Translation:
Graff: The first alien attack found us unprepared. Millions of innocents lost their lives. That can never be allowed to happen again. We fought the enemy with everything we had and in the middle of the final battle a legendary hero emerged. The courage of Mazer Rackham should be an inspiration to all of you. We need minds like yours, Ender. Young people process complex data much easier than adults.
Ender: So I’m not the first?
Mazer: No, but you will be the last.
Petra or Ender: In 3 – 2 – 1.
Graff: And you will be the best commander we ever trained.
And we finally get to see the images that go with some of the score we posted about a couple of days ago. This explains why the “Battle Room” track is so light-hearted. Look how happy Ender is!
Hope you enjoy! We’ll post a vid of the interview that goes with this clip tomorrow! — Dee
Source: ZDFneo
We’re 27 days from release and it’s time for Day 5 of EnderWiggin.net’s Countdown to NovEnder. Today we’re giving away FIVE sets of four Ender’s Game static clings (it will be a random mix) from Comic Con 2013. This giveaway is open worldwide.
Each day, check the Rafflecopter widget for the various ways you can enter and make sure you are eligible. After you complete each task, you must log in your entry in the widget or it will not count. We’ve put in a wide variety of methods for you to enter and for some you can enter once every day of the giveaway.
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For today’s comment, simply tell me which clings you hope will be in your set of four if you win!
We hope you’ve enjoyed our exclusive debut of the first clip from Ender’s Game titled ‘Ender’s Army’. Here are 37 hi-res screencaps of the clip!
EnderWiggin.net is very happy to be one of the Ender’s Game fansites to exclusively debut the very first clip from Ender’s Game, now 27 days from release in the United States.
Watch below in the clip titled ‘Ender’s Army’ as Colonel Hyrum Graff of the International Fleet’s Battle School discusses with esteemed student Ender Wiggin his impressive record at the school and what’s in store for someone who is both excelling and struggling under Commander Bonzo Madrid of Salamander Army.
What do you guys think of the clip? I loved that they included the bit about the uniforms, which is pretty close to the scene in the book!
“I’ve never heard of Dragon Army,” Ender said.
“That’s because there hasn’t been a Dragon Army in four years. We discontinued the name because there was a superstition about it. No Dragon Army in the history of the Battle School ever won even a third of its games. It got to be a joke.”
“Well, why are you reviving it now?”
“We had a lot of extra uniforms to use up.”
For some reason I also loved the hum in the background, lending to the fact that they’re in space. I also cracked up that Graff seems to slouch. Perhaps that’s their substitute for the big belly?
Listen to EnderCast Episode 33.5 below to hear Kelly and I watching the clip for the first time!
Ender’s Game is in theaters November 1st.
This is it, Launchies! The first clip from Ender’s Game is set to debut tomorrow, October 15, 2013 on the fansites at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET.
To make things a little fun, I’m giving away 10 EnderWiggin.net bookmarks to the first 10 people that comment with the right guess on what the clip is. The first person to guess correctly will also win an Ender’s Game dog tag from Comic Con. Open worldwide and you can guess as many times as you want, but limit yourself to one guess per comment! We’ll find out tomorrow if you were right!
Guessing closes when the clip goes live, which is in just under 12 hours, so start guessing!
Here’s the bookmark:
Talk about a great way to start the weekend! Here are 35 screencaps from the new Ender’s Game TV spot “Future”!
Only 28 days to go, Launchies and we’ve got some information for you all regarding advance ticket sales!
Tickets for Ender’s Game will be going on sale on Friday, October 18, 2013 on Fandango.com. In conjunction with the pre-sale, Fandango will be holding a sweepstakes where any person that pre-orders tickets will automatically be entered to win free movie tickets.
Let us know if you’ll be ordering your tickets in advance and what show you plan on going to! IMAX? Midnight? Only two weeks to go until they’re available!
IMDB has just debuted a brand new TV spot for Ender’s Game featuring tons of new scenes and footage including a conference between Graff and Chamrajnagar, Mazer and Graff coaching Ender, and much more!
Check it out at IMDB here and take a look at the COMPLETELY EPIC IMDB page for Ender’s Game!
We’re now 28 days from release, Launchies and it’s time for Day 4 of the Countdown to NovEnder! For today’s giveaway, we’re giving away 10 Ender’s Game dog tags: 5 Dragon and 5 Salamander. This giveaway is open to the US only.
Each day, check the Rafflecopter widget for the various ways you can enter and make sure you are eligible. After you complete each task, you must log in your entry in the widget or it will not count. We’ve put in a wide variety of methods for you to enter and for some you can enter once every day of the giveaway.
You MUST leave an email address that you check frequently so that you can claim your prize within 72 hours. Please DO NOT comment with your email address in your comment.
“How would you like to lead your own army?”
Or how about an Ender’s Game ICEE instead? It’s no secret that Launchies have been trying and failing for weeks to find these, but hopefully if you have a Carmike Cinemas near you, you’ll be able to find one this weekend. In this promo for the theater chain, they include a quick snippet of a brand new line from Graff from the scene where he gives Ender Dragon Army!
Thanks to Fernanda for the tip!