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ENDER'S GAME - PREVIEW
 Ender's Game
(2013)
Starring: Viola Davis, Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Abigail
Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley
Directed by: Gavin Hood
U.S.
Opening Date: 15 March 2013
THEY SAY
When humanity is under threat from an alien race,
Ender Wiggin, at the age of six, leaves his family on Earth to journey to
the Belt.
There he enters Battle School, where his life is
strictly disciplined by mind games and computer mock-battles fought in
deadly earnest.
Instinct, compassion and genius make Ender
unequalled. But while he trains, the invasion approaches fast. And Ender
will be pushed to the limits of endurance, for his is a unique destiny . .
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WE SAY
A bona fide science fiction
classic, Orson Scott Card’s 1985 novel actually won both the Hugo and
Nebula awards.
This project has been in
development heck since about 2002. In 2005 it was announced that David
Benioff, the Troy scribe, and Dan Weiss are set to pen Ender's Game
in conjunction with Troy director Wolfgang
Peterson. (Peterson made a splash with Das Boot way
back in 1985 and has since directed the likes of Air Force One,
Poseidon and In the Line of Fire. His previous forays in the
SF/fantasy genre were Never-Ending Story
in 1984 and Enemy Mine in 1985.)
At one stage Peterson’s next
project was supposed to be The Grays, a piece of hokum by Whitley
Striebler who wrote the dreadful Communion
in which the author seriously claimed to have been anally probed by aliens
that kidnapped him.
In January
2009 Peterson has however dropped out of this project largely because
author Card was unhappy with the direction the film was taking.
Since then the movie is definitely getting made with
director Gavin Hood (Wolverine, Tsotsi) onboard and a cast that
includes Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley amongst others.
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