Ben Kingsley To Reunite With HUGO Star On ENDER’S GAME

Hugo stars Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield may collaborate again as Hollywood Reporter said today that Kingsley is in talks to join Odd Lot’s ENDER’S GAME, co-financed by Summit Entertainment, directed by Gavin Hood, starring Asa Butterfield in the lead. Previous reports about the possibility of Harrison Ford joining in as Colonel Hyrum has not been confirmed.
Hailee Steinfeld plays Petra Akanian, the only girl in Salamander Army who befriends Ender and becomes his trusted ally. Kingsley will play a legendary war hero presumed to be long dead..

Summit Entertainment will release ENDER’S GAME on March 15th, 2013. Based on the sci-fi books by Orson Scott Card
Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is set to direct. Produced by the screenwriting team behind Star Trek and the upcoming COWBOYS & ALIENS, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci..

Here’s the book‘s synopsis..

“Andrew “Ender” Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games at the Battle School; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. Ender is the most talented result of Earth’s desperate quest to create the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. Is Ender the general Earth needs? The only way to find out is to throw the child into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Formics has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender’s two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.”