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Isn't Bean only about 6 in the book? That's going to be impossible to cast.
Ender himself starts out at around 6 years old in the book...it follows him up through the late teens. The book has hundreds of kids (both genders) from ages 6-18 running around fighting and at times appearing naked together. The fight in the shower that forever changes Ender [BLACKOUT]not to mention the kid he kills[/BLACKOUT] is portrayed in the book with all involved naked.
The rules any studio has to follow when there is just one child on the set part time are massive...imagine where you have hundreds who are there in most every scene.
He was among several young actors who met for that Ender role, and signs look good that he’ll be the film’s star.
^he was also great in The Boy with the Striped Pajamas
I've always thought this would be a terribly hard book to film properly. As Card says in that letter....the main kids have to be so young, that's a major obstacle to overcome. And I too think it would need to be fairly long with lots of internal dialogue.
I love the books about Ender and have read them several times each....but I worry about a theatrical adaptation being made.
I really try to separate an author from their work, but I cannot help but feel uncomfortable when reading anything by Orson Scott Card, due to his homophobia and disgustingly outdated views on homosexuality. I don't want to spend my money and time on anything by someone who once said that laws which ban homosexual behaviour should "remain on the books".
Now that the producers have found their young lead, their focus turns to the adult lead of Colonel Hyrum Graff, the Commander of Training for the International Fleet, an elite boys’ military academy. Viggo Mortensen had been targeted for the role, but those talks didn’t work out and producers are now discussing another group of veteran thesps, including Harrison Ford
http://www.showblitz.com/2011/12/steinfeld-plays-game-with-oddlot-ent.htmlTRUE GRIT star Hailee Steinfeld is in negotiations to star as the female lead in OddLot Entertainment’s sci-fi ENDER'S GAME, Variety's Jeff Sneider reports.
HUGO star Asa Butterfield is set to play the title character, a gifted young gamer skilled in strategy and logistics who’s recruited by the government to help battle an insect-like alien race. Steinfeld is in talks to play Petra Arkanian, the only girl in Salamander Army who quickly becomes Ender’s ally and trusted right hand. OddLot is in the process of casting the pic’s adult lead of Colonel Hyrum Graff, who trains the young male recruits at an elite military academy. Several thesps are in the mix, including sci-fi veteran Harrison Ford.