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OMG!!! Ender's Game is happening!!!; movie being filmed in February
Topic Started: January 11, 2012, 5:12 pm (494 Views)
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Ender's Game open casting call - January 14th‏


Want to Be in Battle School?
Open Casting Call for Extras in New Orleans
This Weekend

Ender's Game open casting call being held at the Hilton Garden Inn located in the Warehouse District of New Orleans on Saturday, January 14th from 11am to 3pm.

Alexis Allen, along with Batherson Casting, are seeking bright and talented kids and teens ages 10-17 of varying ethnic background for the feature film production of Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game"; based on one of the most famous science fiction novels of the last 40 years. The film stars Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld and Abigail Breslin.

Oscar-winning Director Gavin Hood will be filming Ender's Game in New Orleans from February until June 2012,
providing those selected with up to 8 weeks of work. To be considered, please come to the open call this weekend, located at the address below between 10am and 2pm

Hilton Garden Inn
1001 South Peters St
New Orleans 70130

Please also bring a recent snapshot of yourself. Homeschooled students are especially encouraged, because of the work during school hours. Please visit this site at http://www.hatrack.com
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That is absolutely amazing!
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Hooray!
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Win.
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I just hope they don't make a hash of it like "Eragon" of a few years ago.
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Haven't heard anything lately, is it still in the works or has it been dropped again?
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Many movie and tv production companies purchase the rights to fictional properties and never produce them. I hope this isn't the fate of "Ender's Game". I'm not trying to pour cold water on anything.

Erica Kirov, a local fantasy author, had her the production rights to her novel, "The Magickeepers" purchased by a large company. There is no movie in sight.

We can all look forward to "The Hobbit". :cool
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Yes, I realize a lot of good books (and games, and graphic novels, etc.) get scooped up and held onto for far too long before they are produced, if at all. I guess The Hobbit will have to hold us for now!
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i am uber excited about this and super impressed that harrison ford is gonna play Graft! kick butt!!
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*crosses fingers*

http://www.themarysue.com/enders-game-film
 


Summit Entertainment has scored the rights to Orson Scott Card‘s Ender’s Game, which will be adapted by Gavin Hood (Tsotsi, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) into a live-action film. Hood will be writing the screenplay and directing, and Card will be among the producers. Now that Summit’s Twilight franchise is ending, will this be their next successful youth-driven series? And will this provide some competition against Lionsgate‘s adaptation of The Hunger Games?

Ender’s Game, which is about gifted children recruited by the government to fight back against an alien invasion and not in a fun happy Power Rangers way but a squicky, uncomfortable Neon Genesis Evangelion way, features characters younger than those in Twilight and The Hunger Games. Kind of, age-wise, where the Harry Potter series began. There is considerable psychological torture and moments of incredible violence. So, the likelyhood of the characters getting aged up? It’s Hollywood, so there’s always that chance, but perhaps not with Card in the producer’s circle.

This isn’t the first time a movie has been discussed for Ender’s Game. The rights were originally bought by Warner Bros. in 2002, but that option lapsed when Card conflicted with director Wolfgang Petersen. Since then, producer Gigi Pritzker (Odd Lot) stepped in and hired Hood.

Hood is currently preparing a visual presentation for the Cannes Film Festival, where the film will be shopped around for distribution.


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Author Orson Scott Card reveals he recently recorded a one-line voice cameo in director Gavin Hood's adaptation, a role he described as "a voiceover of a pilot making an announcement to his passengers... which comes in the middle of a scene between Harrison Ford as Col. Graff and Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin."

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I will keep my fingers crossed for Ender's Game.
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seriously they had better not jack this up! here is a question.. if they do well and it does well what are the chances they will do a squeal and if they do i wonder what of the books they will do? they could do the shadow series stuff i guess or they could do the stuff in ender in exile i guess.. has anyone else read the rest of the series?
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i've read the first several books. My favorite was with Valentine and Ender leaving Scandinavia for another world (along with Jane). The Piggies were fantastic! Some of my favorite quotes come from that book. I wonder how the subject would translate to a movie, though? Would the Piggies be interesting enough to sustain a movie audience?
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i dunno i don't think speaker for the dead, xenocide or children of the mind would be good movie wise.. however a few years ago card came out with a novel called ender in exile which is a direct sequel to enders game it shows what happens on his voyage to Shakespeare colony. The bean series could be an interesting series of movies. its so hard to say tho. and ofcouse they could always do a prequel showing the events of the first or 2nd invasion
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a prequel? Naw, that wouldn't include Ender, though, so it defeats the purpose. :p

i wasn't that interested in the Bean offshoot series. i started reading, and never finished.

Children of the Mind? dunno. It might be interesting to see the Pequeninos, the humans, and the Hive Queen all on one planet.

what was the name of the one with the girl following the lines of the floorboards? That one was hard to take. The whole planet prized those who were 'touched' by the gods, but in our society, it was recognized as a terrible brain disorder.

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*shudders* yeah the floor board girl was def hard to follow. i think that may have been Xenocide.. Enders series went into some strange territory. I didn't read the bean books for a long time. It wasn't until recently within the last years i gave them a read. they really arnt bad but the main reason i read them was because card is putting out two more books that will reconnect bean and enders stories via their children.
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That could be interesting. Still dunno if I want to read the Bean series to catch up, lol.

Did you know that there was a whole Formic Wars series, regarding the first wars with the Buggers? Wow, I have some catching up to do.

But I think I'll start with First Meetings in Ender's Universe, which is short stories regarding Ender's father, and Ender too. Should be interesting.

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From Orson Scott Card's Amazon page:

The Ender novels have inspired a Marvel Comics series, a forthcoming video game from Chair Entertainment, and pre-production on a film version.
comic? video game? anyone know about these?
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first meetings is a very interesting read his parents are awesome. and yeah i knew about the comic book for the wars i missed out on it ill have to hunt it down.

i hope the game inst terribad
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'terribad'... i like it! terrible/bad ? Cool term.

Here I am reading all the Elminster series (and a few others penned by Ed Greenwood too) and Orson Scott Card has several series for offshoots of Ender. Wow... I wish I had such a series of published books!
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there is another ender offshoot called "war of gifts" nothing ground braking but a kool quick read. right now im one the game of thrones series.
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