Ender's Game

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Hailee Steinfeld added to Ender's Game cast [30th November 2011 20:00:00]

After nabbing Hugo's Asa Butterfield for the lead role in Ender's Game, director Gavin Hood has added another to his cast.

Hailee Steinfeld is in talks to play Petra Arkanian in the long-anticipated adaptation of Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel.

Oscar-nominated for her performance in True Grit, Steinfeld will play one of the few girls recruited to train to fight aliens.

She will befriend Ender at the Battle School where they will learn the techniques needed to save the world from an anticipated third invasion of the insect-like aliens.

There have also been whispers that Harrison Ford is in the running to play Battle School trainer Colonel Hyrum Graff after Viggo Mortensen passed on the role. Source: www.totalfilm.com

Asa Butterfield cast in sci-fi film Ender's Game [22nd November 2011 00:00:00]

After years of production setbacks, sci-fi movie Ender's Game is now finally being cast.

Asa Butterfield has been offered the lead role in the long-anticipated movie based on Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel.

The 14-year-old, who has already starred in Martin Scorsese's Hugo, will play the title role of Ender Wiggins.

Ender's Game is set in a futuristic world where mankind is under attack from the Formics, an insect-like alien.

The government begins to select the brightest children to learn how to fight, testing their skills through a series of challenging games.

Andrew 'Ender' Wiggins is soon recognised as a talented fighter at the Battle School, and he becomes the earth's main hope for the survival against the aliens. Source: www.totalfilm.com