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Harrison Ford And Asa Butterfield Role in Ender's Field

Last Updated: November 03, 2013

Harrison Ford And Asa Butterfield Role in Ender's Game

Based on the 1985 science-fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, the movie envisions a future world ruled by a monolithic militaristic government that trains children to fight large insectlike extraterrestrials called Formics or buggers. When the story opens, Ender (Asa Butterfield) thinks he’s just another runt with a monitor jammed in his neck that allows the authorities, personified by Colonel Graff who, because he’s played by Harrison Ford, should have been called Gruff, and a psychologist, Major Anderson (Viola Davis), to observe each potential warrior’s words, moods and tears.

Graff believes that Ender may be the child to lead them all, a sermon he preaches as Ender is tested first on Earth and then in the outer space battle school where the movie gets its game on. Since its release back in 1985, the story of Ender’s Game has had a massive impact on the world of science-fiction. Released to critical acclaim, Orson Scott Card’s novel has earned multiple prizes – including the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel when it was first published – and many esteemed organizations like the American Library Association have ranked it as one of the best books for young readers. Now, after many years of development, that story is finally arriving on the big screen.

Written and directed by Gavin Hood, the story begins years after our world experienced an tragic alien invasion that resulted in many lost lives and the need to find a way to protect Earth from potential threats. It’s this fear that leads to the creation of Battle School, a space station where the best and the brightest young people on the planet are trained from an early age to prepare for inevitable war. When the young Andrew "Ender" Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) arrives, however, Colonel Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) – the head of the Battle School – not only sees him as someone with unbelievable potential, but as someone who could be the savior of mankind. Along with his friend Petra (Hailee Steinfeld), Ender trains to become the best warrior he can be.

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