'Ender's Game' Eyes 'Hugo' Star Asa Butterfield

"Ender's Game" is finally close to finding its Ender. "Hugo" star Asa Butterfield remains offered the role in the title character inside the approaching adaptation of Orson Scott Card's classic sci-fi novel, Deadline reviews. I guess you just need like a 14-year-old which has already headlined a Martin Scorcese film to convince studio professionals that you're an actress to balance a potential franchise on! Butterfield might be the very first -- and several important -- actor being triggered board the project, though more casting bulletins are likely soon to follow along with together with. The film, that is directed by "X-Males Roots: Wolverine" helmer Gavin Hood, remains noisy . pre-production stages. Ender can be a youthful boy attracted onto become for auction on a military training program soon. He quickly works extremely well beneath the tutelage of his peers and becomes an innovator in eliminating against an alien species that formerly attacked Earth. While not all can be as it appears, plus it calculates that you have a much more at risk than who wins or handles to get rid of inside the military's training games. The script for "Ender's Game" was put together by Card but was rewritten by Hood after which it by "Star Trek" dynamic duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Summit Entertainment is creating the flick, and will also likely start filming noisy . 2012. Summit's intention will most likely turn "Ender's Game" in to a franchise once the first film works well. If that is the problem, filming will most likely have to occur for "Ender's Game," "Speaker in the Dead," "Xenocide" and "Kids of the brainInch over the following few years to prevent Butterfield from aging a lot of. You think Butterfield can produce a great Ender Wiggin? Reveal inside the comments section below or on Twitter!