Harrison Ford Drills Asa Butterfield In Our First Look At Ender's Game

[Brendon Connelly]

Orson Scott Card's sci-fi war movie Ender's Game is finally on its way to the big screen. Its story of youths being drilled and sent to fight is certainly topical - once again. It's also pretty friendly to the YA audience who embraced The Hunger Games, as well as seasoned sci-fi buffs.

This first image from the film, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, eschews big sci-fi tropes for something pretty well grounded, if shiny. Here you see some young recruits of Earth's war against the Formics - a species of insectoid aliens - and Harrison Ford as gruff Colonel Graff, apparently giving young Ender a dressing down.



I'm sure Ford can instruct drills with the best of them, it's Asa Butterfield as Ender I'm not so sure about.

You might want to read the original EW piece for such brilliant insights as:

The actors tried to mirror their characters? emotions.

Actually, to be fair, it was interesting to learn that the film compresses the action of the original novel into a single year so they didn't have to have replacement actors showing the kids growing up. That's a significant alteration, in some real respects.

[Jacen]

It's been a while since I read them but wasn't Ender like 8 years old in the first book? Maybe 10? That kid looks ready to drive.

[Timberoo]

no thank you

[Comicsfan101]

It's been a while since I read them but wasn't Ender like 8 years old in the first book? Maybe 10? That kid looks ready to drive.

There was no chance that a live action movie of this sort was going to be made with 8-10 year olds. The book actually encompassed a span of years, but that's addressed in Brendon's last two sentences.

[Tariq Leslie]

Is Harrison Ford that guy from Cave of the Crystal Skulls?

[ewokpelts]

Is Harrison Ford that guy from Cave of the Crystal Skulls?

Wasn't he also Hans olo?

[ThatNickGuy]

I'd be interested in reading Ender's Game if the writer wasn't a homophobic asshole who has openly declared war on gays.

[Comedian]

I'd be interested in reading Ender's Game if the writer wasn't a homophobic asshole who has openly declared war on gays.

I never let someone's personal beliefs affect how I feel about their art. Otherwise, I would never read anything by Alan Moore, Chuck Dixon, or Neal Adams. There are actors and directors whose movies I would never watch, comics I owuld never read because of the artist or writer, books I would never read, buildings I would never walk into because the architecht was an asshole, etc. The work stands alone and separate from the individual. Grow up and if a work sounds interesting, read it, judge it on its own merits. That's what intelligent people do.

[Joe Kalicki]

I'd be interested in reading Ender's Game if the writer wasn't a homophobic asshole who has openly declared war on gays.

Your loss then.

[Fysh]

I'd be interested in reading Ender's Game if the writer wasn't a homophobic asshole who has openly declared war on gays.

Ender's Game is worth reading despite Card's outspoken and backwards beliefs. Maybe read a library copy though, if you're concerned about not wanting to give him money.

Honestly, I find it very strange trying to understand how someone could write a book like Ender's Game (or its sequel Speaker for the Dead) and yet honestly believe that an entire chunk of the population should be treated as second-class citizens. Ender's Game and Speaker For The Dead are both filled with a startling degree of sympathy and understanding for all of its characters, so it's very weird that the author is a bigoted twit.