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Gavin Hood’s “Ender’s Game” movie has enlisted the aid of Ben Kingsley (“Ghandi”) and Brandon Soo Hoo (he played young Storm Shadow in “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra”) into its cast. Kingsley will play Mazer Rackham, “a legendary war hero”, while Soo Hoo will play the awesomely named Fly Molo.
You can officially add Harrison Ford (“Cowboys and Aliens”, the “Star Wars” movies), Abigail Breslin (of “Zombieland” fame), and Hailee Steinfeld (of “True Grit” fame) to the cast of Gavin Hood’s big-budget live-action adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game”. Steinfeld and Ford were previously reported as joining the film, but Breslin’s (below) casting is new.
You know, it’s still absolutely amazing to me that an “Ender’s Game” movie is actually happening. I mean, “Ender’s Game”!
Anyways.
And his name is Asa Butterfield, a British kid who can next be seen in Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo”.
Word is that Butterfield (you gotta love British last names) has been offered the role if he wants it, and I suspect he’ll want it.
Now if only Summit Entertainment will actually make it. Sorry if I’m a little pessimistic. After all, people have been telling me that an “Ender’s Game” movie is on the way for the last two decades or so, and it hasn’t happened yet.
Earlier this year, we reported that director Gavin Hood was shopping around an “Ender’s Game” movie based on the Orson Scott Card novel and looking for a studio to call home. Now it appears he’s found that home — over at Summit Entertainment, the same house that gave birth to the “Twilight” franchise.
Oh, Ender, will you ever make it to the big screen? Hopefully one day — and perhaps sooner than expected. Heat Vision reports that the Orson Scott Card novel is currently being shopped around to the major studios this week, with a script by Gavin Hood (“Wolverine”), who is also attached to direct.
The last we heard about an “Ender’s Game” movie (waaaaaaaaaaaay back in 2008), director Wolfgang Petersen had left the project. Now the most current word comes from the LATimes has Odd Lot Entertainment continuing to move on turning the book into a movie and “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” director Gavin Hood “developing the project as a director” after doing a once-over on the script.
Ah, Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game”. What sci-fi geek hasn’t read the novel while growing up? I know I did, and I barely knew how to read when I picked up a copy of the novel. As a result of having read the novel as a kid, I’m not sure how I feel about making a movie out of it. Could it work? Should they even try? Well they’re trying, and have been, but no one in Hollywood has managed to get the movie actually made, which may be a good or a bad thing depending on your point of view. And now, the latest news is that attached director Wolfgang Peterson has “moved on” from the project.
