Ender's Ansible

Details to Come

If you’ve been an Ender’s Game fan long enough, you already know that Ender’s Game author, Orson Scott Card, is strongly against fan fiction. He stated in 2004 via his site, “The time to write fan fiction is ‘never.’ You will never do your best work in someone else’s universe, because you’re bound by their rules.” Read Card’s full position on fan-fiction here.

Now it looks like Card’s position has turned around. The Wall Street Journal reports,

“Some authors’ attitudes toward fan fiction are evolving. After spending years fending off fan fiction, and occasionally sending out ‘cease and desis'” letters through his lawyer to block potential copyright violations, science-fiction novelist Orson Scott Card has started courting fan writers. Mr. Card, author of the best-selling ‘Ender’s Game’ series, is planning to host a contest for ‘Ender’s Game’ fan fiction this fall. Fans will be able to submit their work to his Web site. The winning stories will be published as an anthology that will become part of the official ‘canon’ of the ‘Ender’s Game’ series.

‘Every piece of fan fiction is an ad for my book,’ Mr. Card says. ‘What kind of idiot would I be to want that to disappear?”’

You read right! This fall Orson Scott Card will host an Ender’s Game fan-fiction contest, taking submissions via his website. The winning stories (plural!) will be published in an anthology and will be considered official Ender’s Game canon. There are no details yet, but we’ll keep you up to date!

This photo from ComingSoon.Net has surfaced, which is a  preliminary mock-up from a licensing expo in Las Vegas.

The Studio tells us, “This is not an official teaser poster (or final logo – will likely change for the final look), but just something mocked up for use at the 2012 Licensing Expo going on in Las Vegas now.”

Repeat, it is not, as others reported, an official Teaser Poster designed for wide promotion, but a mockup used for the licenced product (“Ender’s Game”) to have a visible presence at an expo for acquiring licencing partners.

Click HERE for a Hi-Res Version.

The cast of Ender’s Game is in Los Angeles for post-production edits… and a photoshoot! We don’t have any pictures yet, but Peter actor, Jimmy Pinchak et us know about the photoshoot via his Facebook:

Bean actor, Aramis Knight, tweeted earlier about an Ender’s Game “reunion” tomorrow. Could be more post-production work.

Post-Production and More!

Filming officially wrapped on Saturday (read about it + pictures here) and we bet you’re thinking. “The movie’s more than a year away! There’s going to be nothing new!” Trust us, there’s going to be plenty going on from now until November 2013. What’s next?

Ender's Game producers Bob Orci & David Coatsworth on set behind a green screen

Editing and Special Effects Editing galore! Lots of editing! The post-production team needs to edit the individual scenes into a cohesive movie that’s going to make millions of people fall in love (and re-fall in love) with Ender’s Game. We know from images posted on Twitter that at least some green screen is being incorporated. This means that graphics and other special effects need to be added in.

Music We’re also hoping for a announcement about the film’s music. Will the Ender’s Game movie have a soundtrack or will it be scored? (We really hope it’s scored!) Music is so important to setting the tone of the movie, we can’t wait to learn the name of the composer or who the soundtrack artists will be. (Personally, we’re hoping for something scored that’ll be as beautiful and memorable as the Star Wars theme music and Hedwig’s Theme.)

Teaser Posters and Trailers If you missed @EnderSpeaker‘s latest post on this subject go read it now! We can’t wait until the first teaser posters and trailers are released. The first time you see a teaser trailer on your home television you’re going to explode with happiness. Of course we’ll let you know whenever that it.

Advertising “We have established ourselves as the No. 1 studio in young adult franchises,” Lionsgate’s CEO [Variety.]  If they truly are (and we’re not arguing that they’re not) then we’re sure they have unique advertising techniques up their sleeves. If their advertising tactics mirror their beyond-the-ordinary-tactics for The Hunger Games then we’re expecting some major hype for the movie. The Official Ender’s Game Production Blog does seem to mirror The Official Hunger Games Tumblr. And you can’t forget the rumor that Ender’s Game will be at Comic-Con 2013.

Merchandise We can only imagine what kind of merchandise Lionsgate is going to roll out for Ender’s Game. [Edit: We found there awesome production gifts. Take a look!] Possibly action figures, toy flash guns, (please no lame video game tie-in!) posters, lunch boxes, clothing line (Dear Christine Bieselin-Clark, Pretty please design a wearable line of clothing with very subtle Ender’s Game references.) and there’s already book with an updated movie cover due out in September.

Red carpet interviews, magazine covers and more! (And you can’t forget our to-be-released-set-visit-details!) So you see, there will plenty of news for you all to devour between now and November 2013.

And if that’s not enough, Ender’s Game prequel: Earth Unaware is due out next month. Pre-order here! Tell us in the comments what news you’re most looking forward to!

Post-Production Bits

Filming for the Ender’s Game movie wrapped on Saturday and different cast and crew headed to their hometowns. We weren’t surprised to learn that many of the main cast members were heading back to Los Angeles, because many of them live in the area. However, we were surprised to learn that at least some of them will continue to work on the Ender’s Game movie here in Los Angeles.

So far we know that Ender actor, Asa Butterfield, and Peter actor, Jimmy Pinchak, are going to be working on the Ender’s Game movie here in LA. We aren’t sure what exactly they’ll be doing, but Asa tweeted this:

It’s also worth noting that the Ender’s Game special effects company, Digital Domain, is primarily located in the Los Angeles area.