Baseball in Battle School?
‘Entertainment Tonight’ showcased a preview of tomorrow’s ‘Ender’s Game’ trailer. Here’s a break down of the new footage:
There’s a Harrison Ford voice over saying, “They know our strategies” and we see an air fight with the buggers ships and the IF ships, weaving in and out of the clouds. Some ships are hit and burn to the ground. The ships seem to swarm like a hive. (Very awesome).
We see battle school students going up stairs, hands moving and touching a “desk” or tablet screen, and battle school students seemingly at a simulator with helmets on.
After rewatching the clip about 20 times, I’m sure we see a very quick clip of a few very important cast members playing baseball in a battle school corridor. Khylin Rhambo (Dink Meeker) is swinging a bat at a ball, Asa Butterfield (Ender Wiggin) is catcher, Brandon Soo Hoo (Fly Molo), Hailee Steinfeld (Petra Arkanian) and 2 others are visible waiting to catch the ball. I’m unsure if this is part of the movie or not, but they appear to be in costume.
Next we see battle school students in white wrestling in a weight room with Nonso Anozie (Sergeant Dap) pacing nearby. Then a series of quick shots featuring Ender’s face in various places, the battle room, marching, in some kind of a chair, etc.
Finally, there’s Ender standing at a simulator, which may or may not be the final battle. He’s moving his hands in the air as he operates a virtual simulator in front of him. He zooms in on a planet. There are blue-lighted ships at what is obviously a bugger planet. It cuts to a shot of a very large strange formic ship with small ships swarming around it. Ender shouts “NOW!” and two blue lights fly towards the middle of the screen and blow up the bugger home world.
Thanks all the extra footage, everything else were scenes we already was in the 10-second footage earlier this week.
The ‘Ender’s Game’ film will be released in U.S. theaters on November 1, 2013.