Last Name “Wiggin”

In the last week, the ‘Ender’s Game’ publicity has released a slew of new images. You can check them all out in the Official Images Gallery.

We noticed in this image that there’s an outline of a ship.

Which appears to be the same as the toy ship we pointed out in Ender’s bedroom months ago. Check out the middle shelf on the left! This may be a ship from the IF’s first or second formic war since in the image is placed with Mazer Rackham, above. Or, it might be a formic ship. What do you think? (Check out the complete breakdown of Ender’s bedroom here.)

The overlay text on the image below suggests that Ender may have an army of 14, not including himself. Additional evidence for this theory includes the fact that there are 14 soldiers in the image of Ender’s army meeting Ender, their commander, for the first time (because they’re all still wearing different army patches, but standing in the Dragon Army barracks). This differs from the 40 soldiers + one commander army the novel describes.

Finally, many of you have asked if the film would keep Ender’s original last name, “Wiggins,” because that’s what it said on the first versions of the Facebook collages – the answer is no. This was a simple error on the part of the social media team and it has since been fixed. Ender’s last name will be “Wiggin” in the film.

The ‘Ender’s Game’ film will be released in U.S. theaters on November 1, 2013.