For those of you Ender's Game fans excited about the movie, producer Roberto Orci has launched a production blog for the feature film. Ender's Game recently started shooting in New Orleans, and it seems as if things are going good so far. The blog's first entry included the image above with the following statement about the film's star Asa Butterfield, who plays Ender:
It took us all a second to realize Asa was right when he said Ender’s Game was an amazing book from “the late 1900s.” We use that phrase all the time now, like, “Clinton was President in the late nineteen hundreds!” Most of us read Ender’s Game when we were young and wondered when it would become a movie. We never dreamed then that we would all be part of the team to bring it to the screen, nor did we realize the novel’s description of our world would be so prescient that its vision would still be unfolding before our very eyes today. And now, watching Asa bring a character to life who has been on our minds since our youth we realize things happen for a reason. We were waiting for him. Make yourself comfortable, Ender!
It seems like everyone is enjoying Butterfield's take on this classic character, and it sounds like he's nailing it. Damn, I can't wait to see how this film turns out! Like many of you, I've been waiting for this movie for years! I hope director Gavin Hood will be able to take it to a level where fans will be happy and proud and make a movie worthy to carry the title of Ender's Game.