One flick we’ve been keeping you updated on recently is the upcoming adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s ENDER’S GAME. Names have been flying around like crazy with the likes of Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld and Harrison Ford all being eyed… But there hasn’t been any signings since Asa Butterfield joined the project.
Unfortunately I haven’t come here to tell you one of those names is on board. Instead The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog is dishing out a wee bit different casting news. Apparently Canadian teen star Brendan Meyer (above) has just signed onto the project to play Stilson, Ender’s classmate who taunted him during ground school in the futuristic film.
Set in Earth’s future, ENDER’S GAME presents an imperiled humankind who have barely survived two conflicts with the Formics (an insectoid alien race also known as the “Buggers”). In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, an international fleet maintains a school to find and train future fleet commanders. The world’s most talented children, including the novel’s protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are taken at a very young age to a training center known as the Battle School. There, teachers train them in the arts of war through increasingly difficult games including ones undertaken in zero gravity in the Battle Room where Ender’s tactical genius is revealed.
Gavin Hood is set to kick off production on this little shindig starting Early 2012 in New Orleans with a March 2013 release date already being eyeballed. As always as soon as more news comes our way regarding ENDER’S GAME or any of it’s cast we’ll be right here to tell you about it.
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