Producer Bob Orci sat down with What’s Trending at Nerd HQ during Comic Con to talk about the process of making Ender’s Game. He speaks about getting the movie produced, casting Harrison Ford (or rather being cast by him), aging up the kids, and shooting the movie in sequence so that Ender’s physical growth would match Asa’s. I also think he and the interviewer are having a speed talking contest.
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Ho Launchies! Here are some photos from the Ender’s Game panel at Comic Con that took place on Thursday, July 18, 2013. By now you’ve probably all seen the panel in videos, but there are some great ones that I took from the second row. Enjoy!
All photos were taken by EnderWiggin.net. Please source when using.
Watch the entire Ender’s Game press conference at San Diego Comic-Con – courtesy of Screen Slam, and in pretty good quality!
Source: Screen Slam’s Youtube Channel
Entertainment site The Verge just uploaded their coverage of Ender’s Game at San Diego Comic Con. They spoke briefly with Asa and Hailee outside the Ender’s Game Experience before they sat down with director Gavin Hood and producer Bob Orci to discuss the making of the movie. Watch them talk about getting involved in the project, financing the movie, their devotion to stay true to both the “cool stuff” and the “cerebral” side of the book, and why the teaser trailer is so heavy on CGI.
Source: The Verge’s Youtube Channel
THE MOUSE WILL BE THERE!
Finally some information on whether or not and in what way the Mind Game will be featured in the Ender’s Game Movie. Good News: the mouse is most likely going to be there! In an interview with Cinemablend‘s Kelly West (the same interview she quoted from when writing about the question of violence in the movie; see our earlier post HERE), writer/director Gavin Hood said:
We did motion capture, put on suits, ran around the room. They filmed it in a virtual world. Once you’ve captured that motion you can film what you captured digitally and then we handed that off to an amazing animation company in Barcelona, who’ve done the most beautiful work. Obviously, we did a lot of drawings and how’s it going to be? And drawings of the mouse and all those things, but it is a shorter version than in the book, because the whole story of the book is compressed into about a one year period.
The rest of the interview evolves around the adaptation of the book, including questions about how much of the book’s violence will be shown in the film, how Ender’s narrative voice is translated into the medium of film, and what a possible sequel will depend on. Read the entire article HERE!
Source: Cinemablend
Photo Credit: Alex Washburn/Wired
Most of you have probably watched a number of Ender’s Game Experience Walkthroughs by now, and you’ve probably also checked out the Gettyimages/IMDB pics of Asa, Hailee, Gavin and Bob at the event. But in case you are interested in seeing it all in motion, have video of their “Walk Thru” courtesy of Screen Slam! Thanks to Fernanda for the tip!
Watch two more awesome walkthroughs HERE and HERE!
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Last night, the Ender’s Game Exclusive Fan Experience opened, and a few people got to interview Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Gavin Hood and Bob Orci outside the Experience. Watch below what they had to say:
And just a couple of minutes ago, MoviesDotComOfficial released this brand new interview with Asa and Hailee!
Let us know what you think!
Source: Youtube (Beyond The Trailer, Perry Nemiroff, MoviesDotComOfficial)
Gettyimages has new photos of last night’s Ender’s Game Experience Press Preview! Apparently, the Thursday panelists (sans Abigail Breslin, who had to cancel) were in attendance and up to all kinds of mischief. Check out the following links for more pretty, interesting and hilarious photos of Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, director Gavin Hood, producer Bob Orci, and bits and pieces of the exhibition.
Gettyimages: 87 photos of the event, watermarked
IMDB: 15 medium sized photos without watermarks; the pics in this post are screenshots from the IMDB site
Many thanks to Michael Arvallius on Facebook for pointing out the pics on IMDB.
Sources: Gettyimages, IMDB
Comic Con released their autograph signing schedule and there are two scheduled for cast and crew of Ender’s Game. The first will be held on Thursday morning.
Summit Entertainment is excited to announce a special autograph signing by Bob Orci, Gavin Hood, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and Abigail Breslin for their upcoming release ENDER’S GAME. Please visit http://www.comic-con.org/cci/autograph-area or the Autograph Area Information Booth for details on how to participate in a Limited Signing Drawing.
Limited Signing – Drawing for Line Tickets to be held Thursday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area
Thursday July 18, 2013 9:00am – 9:30am
Sails Pavilion – Autographs
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The second signing will be on Saturday morning.
Talent from Enders Game
(Aramis Knight, Suraj Parthasarathy, Jimmy Pinchak, Conor Carrol, Cameron Gaskins)
Limited Signing – Drawing for Line Tickets to be held Saturday at 9:00 am in the Autograph AreaSaturday July 20, 2013 9:00am – 10:00am
Sails Pavilion – Autographs
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Comic Con International has begun rolling out their schedule and today they released the schedule for Thursday. Ender’s Game is slotted for 3:50 PM in Hall H along with Summit’s YA title Divergent.
With the two films sharing a one hour slot, that doesn’t seem to leave a whole lot of time for Ender’s Game, a half an hour at most. Hopefully they pack in as much as they can!
Stars Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and Abigail Breslin will be there along with producer Bob Orci and director Gavin Hood.
Ender’s Game producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci spoke with Barbara Chai of the Wall Street Journal recently and mentioned their personal history with the popular sci fi novel.
What were some of the challenges you and director Gavin Hood faced in adapting Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game” into a film?
Orci: “Ender’s Game” was a book that we both loved from teenagehood. It was published in 1985 and I think we read it in high school, maybe even earlier. The challenge with the book is it’s very internal in that a lot of the narrative that occurs is within the character’s head and the trick is, how do you dramatize that? The answer is both through having some of those internal struggles be dramatically shown as scenes, and second, we have an advantage that the book does not have, and that is actors. We have great actors who can not only say things, but play things and play reactions on their faces and actually convey a lot of the emotion of the book. Thankfully now we have the technology to make it the grand adventure that it deserves to be. We have the technology to render a Zero-G environment in a totally believable and incredible way.
Chai brought up the elephant in the room and asked them if they thought Card’s views would affect the film.
Orci: I was never aware of in the book – and we’ve read it three or four times during our lifetime before we got into this movie – I never saw any sign in “Ender’s Game” of anything that offended Alex or me. The book is beautiful. It’s about tolerance, it’s about responsibility, it’s about growing up. We just tend to judge a book on its own merits. Nothing that anyone could say is going to remove our original reaction of how we perceive this beautiful book. For us, it’s just about the book.
Kurtzman: Look, obviously it’s a First Amendment issue and Mr. Card is free to express whatever point-of-view he chooses to express, and we are free to disagree with him. At this point, that’s all I really want to say about it.
I have to admit, Orci’s answer touches on why I continue to do this site despite disagreeing with Card’s views. In all my readings of the book, I’d never picked up on his personal views either.
You can read the full interview at the WSJ.
Ho, launchies! If you weren’t able to make it to the live Hangout, here’s a replay of it below!
Those of you that follow the official Ender’s Game Google+ page can now RSVP for the event that will host the world premiere of the trailer for Ender’s Game. The trailer will launch via a live Google+ Hangout on May 7 at 1 PM PT/4 PM ET.
Director Gavin Hood, producer Bob Orci, and Ender himself, Asa Butterfield will be broadcasting live to bring you the trailer. This is definitely one you can’t miss!