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Geek Legacy will be interviewing Ender’s Game actor, Brandon Soo Hoo, very soon.
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The ‘Ender’s Game’ film will be released in U.S. theaters on November 1, 2013.
#003a Ender’s Game: A Book to Film Adaptation
We are very pleased to present the third podcast resulting from the partnership of The Philotic Web Ender Fan Community, and Ender’s Ansible. Click on the image to subscribe (it’s free).
Part 1: Thomas and Cassandra discuss
Listen to Part 1 of this podcast here: Philotic Ansible #003a – Ender’s Game: A Book to Film Adaptation (mp3, 24:34– Right Click to Save), stream below, or subscribe in iTunes.
Part 2 of this episode will be uploaded tomorrow.
Oscars 2013
Following up our story about Khylin Rhambo (Dink Meeker) and Aramis Knight (Bean) at an Oscar party last night, we have pictures of two more ‘Ender’s Game’ cast members walking the red carpet.
Here is Hailee Steinfeld (Petra Arkanian) at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscar Party:
And here is Viola Davis (Major Gwen Anderson) with Octavia Spencer at the Women in Film Pre-Oscar Party:
Aren’t these pins amazing? Smart Pop Books is giving away these pins at their booth at San Diego Comic-Con 2013 to promote ‘Ender’s World’ edited by Orson Scott Card. If you don’t plan on attending Comic-Con have no fear, five lucky readers will be winning a set of three pins: 1 ‘Third’ pin, 1 ‘Dragon Army’ pin, and 1 ‘Ender’s Game 2013’ pin from SDCC 2012 (Not pictured, we’re including them because we have extras!).
Here are the rules:
1. The contest is open to everyone worldwide. (Minors, ask your parents for permission.)
2. One entry per person; all duplicates will be deleted.
3. To enter leave a comment on this post telling us who your favorite character in the Enderverse is and why.
4. The giveaway will end on 11:59PM PST on Sunday March 3, 2013.
The five winners will be chosen at random and announced on Monday March 4, 2013. Be sure to check back! Winners should claim their prize by emailing us their full name and address as it should be mailed.
Ender’s World’ edited by Orson Scott Card, will be published on April 2, 2013. Pre-order it here.
Winners:
#11 Sara Colford
#42 Ly Huynh
#38 Ian Miller
#9 Morgon Grobin
#43 Daphne Chong
We have attempted to contact each of you. Winners, please email us your full name and address as it should be put on the mailing label ASAP!
Khylin Rhambo and Aramis Knight
Ender’s Game actors Khylin Rhambo (Dink Meeker) and Aramis Knight (Bean) attended an after party for the Oscars tonight. Check out these pictures from Khylin’s Facebook page:
More pictures from their attendance at the Oscars after party will be added to the Events Photo Gallery shortly.
Chan Hwee Chong
Ender spread his hands over the child-size keyboard near the edge of the desk and wondered what it would feel like to have hands as large as a grown up’s. They must feel so big and awkward, thick stubby fingers and beefy palms. Of course, they had bigger keyboards— but how could their thick fingers draw a fine line, the way Ender could, a thin line so precise that he could make it spiral seventy-nine times from the center to the edge of the desk without the lines ever touching or overlapping. It gave him something to do while the teacher droned on about arithmetic.
-‘Ender’s Game’ by Orson Scott Card, page 5
Meet Chan Hwee Chong; he’s a 34-year-old artist based in Beijing, China. He’s not a child like Ender Wiggin, but he still has hands so deft that he can trace spirals endlessly without overlapping. With a single careful stroke, Hwee Chong turns each spiral into a masterpiece.
Of course Hwee Chong didn’t use a ‘desk’ tablet to construct these illustrations. Hwee Chong used a Faber Castell Artist Pen to recreate Vermeer’s ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ and other famous artworks as part of an advertisement for Faber Castell. Hwee Chong says, “It wasn’t as easy as we thought. We went through many rounds of trial and error, painstaking drawing the masterpieces in one controlled line, by hand. As you can imagine, every mistake meant we need to start all over again. This project not only involved skill but lots of resilience and patience, much like a spider spinning its web.”
Watch Hwee Chong working below:
To see more of Hwee Chong’s spiral artwork, visit his online gallery.
Have you ever thought, “This reminds me of ‘Ender’s Game,'” while reading an article? Our new column, ‘Beyond Fiction’ is dedicated to sharing those stories. Each Saturday we’ll publish a piece both reminiscent and beyond the fiction of ‘Ender’s Game’. Of course, if you’d like to nominate a feature, please contact us.
Source: Daily Mail.
Michael Burns on 2013 Predictions
Lionsgate Chairman, Michael Burns, was a guest on CNBC‘s ‘Fast Money’ yesterday. He teased Ender’s Game fans a little, saying that he’s seen the ‘Ender’s Game’ trailer! Read below:
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 game changer 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. I think that also, 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. [..]
If you want to watch Melissa’s interview with Michael Burns, watch below:
There is still no official word from Summit Entertainment via Lionsgate when the first ‘Ender’s Game’ teaser trailer will be released. Thank you Jonathan on Facebook for the tip; and credit to enderwiggin.net for the transcript.
The ‘Ender’s Game’ film will be released in U.S. theaters on November 1, 2013.
Meet Petra and the Battle School Score Board
Ender’s Game producer, Bob Orci, fell in love with the Ender’s Game story when he was twelve-years-old; and almost every cast and crew member told me a similar story during my visit to the Ender’s Game film set last May. In fact, many crew members eagerly requested to work on Ender’s Game – not because they wanted to be a part of a blockbuster movie, but because they are fans of the novel. Not wanting to disappoint themselves, the many hands that helped put this film together ultimately worked to make the Ender’s Game movie three very important things: believable, relatable, and timeless.
Wanting to get the story right, it took six months to write the first draft of the Ender’s Game movie and another sixty-three drafts to perfect what you’ll see on the big screen. Expect changes in any book to film adaption, especially in the case of Ender’s Game. Most of the story is told via Ender’s thoughts. Because we can’t have thought bubbles above Asa Butterfield’s head, many scenes from the book have been altered to develop Ender’s emotional anguish and unspoken victories over Colonel Graff and Major Anderson. Longtime fans of Ender’s Game need not worry that this will not be the Ender’s Game they remember from childhood. The scenes fans love to quote, the violence that surrounds Ender, and Ender’s final realizations will still be at the center of the story. The battle suits, flash guns, and desk tablets are all there; I even held them!
With certainty, I can say that the highlight of my set visit was lying down in the launchie bunks during an interview with production designers Sean Haworth and Ben Proctor. Who else did I meet in New Orleans? I chatted with writer and director Gavin Hood, producers Lynn Hendee and Bob Orci, stunt coordinator Garrett Warren, Asa Butterfield, Sir Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Aramis Knight, Suraj Partha, Khylin Rhambo, Nonso Anozie and so many more. I can’t wait to share my interviews with them and the remainder of my set visit at a later date.
Until then, enjoy this exclusive Ender’s Game movie still featuring Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) and Petra Arkanian (Hailee Steinfeld) eating in the battle school mess hall with the scoreboard in the background. Click the picture for the full size image, or download the huge bitmap as a zip file HERE.
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The Ender’s Ansible team has taken the liberty of pointing out 10 points of interest in the still:
1. That’s Dink Meeker (Khylin Rhambo) sitting on Ender’s right.
2. That’s Ender’s bully, Commander Bonzo Madrid (Moises Arias) of Salamander Army, sitting on Petra’s far left at the end of the table.
3. This person in yellow is reminiscent of the girl from the first Ender’s Game movie still. This might be Colonel Graff’s assistant.
4. These students in the corner appear to have two army logos (a red, and a few teal-colored logos) different from the army logos released yesterday. Any guesses as to what armies these soldiers belong to?
5. Based on the army logos on the scoreboard and the gauge next to them, we believe the scoreboard is showing a battle between Rat and Asp Army with Rat Army in the lead.
6. This circle appears to represent a single spherical battle room. Those colored rectangles on either side of the circle are probably the enemy gates. Remember, the enemy’s gate is down.
7. Those white shapes in the center of the circle probably represent the placement of ‘stars’ or floating obstacles in the middle of the battle room.
8. There appear to be only eight students to each army, one commander and seven additional soldiers. There are a total of forty-one students to each army in the Ender’s Game novel.
9. We can’t make out that list on the bottom, but it might be army ranks or the ranks of individual soldiers.
10. Click the picture and take a look at the full size image for an up close of that food. We think it looks like breakfast.
11. Bonus edit: We’ve received confirmation that the student standing in the far upper right is Commander Pol Slattery of Leopard Army (Cameron Gaskins).
A special thanks to Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate for allowing us to share this new movie still with our readers. The Ender’s Game movie will be released in US theaters on November 1, 2013.
Here’s something we’re excited to share! This is the Rat Army logo from the Ender’s Game movie.
In the novel, Ender Wiggin is initially placed in the Battle School’s Salamander Army under the leadership of bully Bonzo Madrid; this is where he befriends Petra Arkanian who trains him to shoot. Ender is then traded to Rat Army whose commander is Rose the Nose. In Rat Army Ender is guided by toon leader Dink Meeker.
Later, Ender is traded to Phoenix Army where he becomes a toon leader under Commander Petra Arkanian. After his success in Phoenix Army, Ender is given command of Dragon Army before he is graduated to Command School.
Salamander, Rat, Phoenix, and Dragon are the armies Ender occupies in the Ender’s Game novel. Today, we and 3 other fansites are featuring the logos from Asp Army, Dragon Army, Rat Army and Salamander Army. Although Asp and other armies are only briefly included in the Ender’s Game novel (see Chapter 5), they remain canon because they are included in “The Authorized Ender Companion” by Jake Black.
On a final note, be sure to check back tomorrow for the first look at a brand new ‘Ender’s Game’ movie still featuring an expanded scope of the battle school!
Check out a few of the other army logos at the other Ender’s Game fansites:
Asp Army – endersgamefansite.com
Dragon Army – endernews.com
Salamander Army – enderwiggin.net
A special thanks to Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate for allowing us to share the Rat Army logo with our readers. The Ender’s Game movie will be released in US theaters on November 1, 2013.
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Confirmed
After this image from The New York Toy Fair surfaced online, here, we confirmed with Summit Entertainment that Cryptozoic Entertainment, a company that specializes in licensed games and trading card games has obtained the rights to develop a game and trading card game based on the Ender’s Game movie.
This is not the first piece of promotional Ender’s Game merchandise to surface. There’s also a 2014 wall calendar available for pre-order.
Credit to EnderNews for breaking the story.