By Shannon Morgan
Staff Writer
Sci-fi lovers, “Ender’s Game” is the movie for you. Orson Scott Card, the author of “Ender’s Game”, is the ultimate science fiction writer.“Ender’s Game” has been a classic. The movie will have plenty of action, adventure, and plenty of futuristic space age weapons to satisfy your needs. “Ender’s Game” is scheduled to come out on Nov. 1.
“Ender’s Game” (the first in the Ender saga) follows the first few years of Ender Wiggin’s life as he trains at Battle School to learn how to fight against the aliens, or “Buggers”.
For those who have not read the book, “Ender’s Game” is set i
n a futuristic world that has been battling the Buggers for 7o years. High up in space, young boys go to Battle School to train and learn how to fight and defend against the Buggers.
Ender Wiggin is one of the boys that has been selected. He leaves behind his strange brother and his beloved sister on earth. He rises quickly to the top of his class, then to the top of his school. Behind the scenes, Colonel Graff has bigger and better plans for Ender. Graff wants Ender to lead Earth to victory, and defeat the Buggers.
He makes a few friends during his time at the Battle School, including one of the only girls there, Petra Arkanian. She helps him when no one else will, and is an outsider like him. Also a young boy they call Bean ends up being his only ally and friend..
Although the book has been out 36 years, this is the first time a film adaption of the book has been created.
The top billed cast for the movie includes Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin. Butterfield has been in other popular movies such as “Hugo” and “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”. He is acting along side Hailee Steinfeld, who plays Petra Arkanian. The actor portraying Colonel Graff is Harrison Ford.
The director for the film is Gavin Hood, who is widely known for directing X- Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009. Hood is an actor as well as a director, so hopefully he will truly get the message of Ender’s Game across to the audience.
“I really like the book, and I have high expectations for the movie,” sophomore Ajay Verma said. “I watched the trailer for the movie, and I thought that the characters for the movie were very thought out. I hope that they don’t take shortcuts in the movie like they did in Harry Potter and other movies.”
