Ever since the new trailer came out yesterday, Crystal and I (and I’m sure many of you guys) have been trying to figure which city this is. Guess what, it is … a city destroyed in Summit’s 2009 doomsday movie The Knowing. Compare the footage from the movie with the trailer footage:
Well, this is super awkward. But hey, I’m all for recycling!
Many thanks to twitter user Billy True (@A11True) for the tip, and to tumblr user Icarus Licorice for the images to prove it!
Watch the destruction scene from The KnowingHERE on Youtube!
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.
If you, like me, had to miss out on Comic Con, here comes the podcast that will make you regret it not quite so much: Episode 22 – Launchies in Line. In the first part of the podcast, Crystal from EnderWiggin.net and Kelly from Ender News are waiting in line in front of Hall H to experience the Ender’s Game panel on Thursday, July 18, where they are joined by EnderNews staffer Aidan and long term devoted fan Hannah! In the second part of the podcast, Crystal and Kelly recap the Thursday panel, among other things.
Topics include:
loads of talk about camping, waiting, and the Hall H line
Yesterday, Lions Gate Vice Chairman Michael Burns appeared on CNBC’s Fast Money to talk Oscars and Lionsgate’s upcoming franchises with Melissa Lee. When asked about their 2013 pipeline, he had something really interesting to say for Ender’s Game fans.
Melissa Lee: You’ve got a big pipeline in 2013. What’s the one film that we need to be watching for out of Lionsgate? What’s gonna the gamechanger for you guys in terms of earnings.
Michael Burns: I’m pretty confident that actually Catching Fire which comes out in November will do well. We’ve also got some potential big hits and franchises. Red 2 is obviously the sequel coming out after Red 1, out of the first Red. I feel very good about… I saw the trailer yesterday for Ender’s Game, that looks very exciting. I’d also have to say that Divergent which we start shooting in Chicago in the next couple of weeks, the book sales are doing better than the trajectory of Twilight and Hunger Games at this point. And that’s Neil Berger, Kate Winslet, and we’ve got Shailene Woodley from The Descendents. We think that could be the next franchise for us. You never know, but we feel really good about it.
Sounds like they’ve got a trailer done! Hopefully we’ll see that within the next month and also the first official poster for Ender’s Game. It’s funny that I’ve been so focused on when the trailer will land that I’d totally forgotten to wonder about a poster.
What are you guys hoping they’ll show in the trailer? And what kind of poster would excite you the most? Ender? Battle School? A space battle? All three?
