‘Ender’s Game’ casts Andrew Wiggin’s parents, Sergeant Dap

The cast continues to expand for director-writer Gavin Hood’s adaptation of “Ender’s Game,” Orson Scott Card’s classic sci-fi novel. As the movie gets ready to start production, the movie now has cast three more adult roles.

Joining the cast will be Stevie Ray Dallimore and Andrea Powell, reported Deadline Hollywood on Feb. 17. They will play John and Theresa Wiggin, parents to Ender.

Dallimore was most recently seen in “Joyful Noise” and is the artistic director for The Muse of Fire, a theater group for children. Powell played Sasha in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I.”

Also joining the cast is Nonso Anozie (“The Grey,” Game of Thrones”) as Sergeant Dap. If Hood’s screenplay accurately reflects the novel, Dap will be involved with training the “launchies," as the new recruits are known.

The film will focus on Andrew “Ender” Wiggin (Asa Butterfield)  a young boy who turns out to be a tactical genius at Battle School. The school/military training academy prepares children to fight an alien species called the Formics (also known as Buggers, a reflection of their insectoid characteristics).

Meet some of the cast of Gavin Hood's "Ender's Game."

“Ender’s Game” features a large cast of well-respected adult actors and talented children. Also signed on for the movie are Harrison Ford, Abigail Breslin, Viola Davis, Jimmy “Jax” Pinchak, Hailee Steinfeld and Ben Kingsley.

The movie is scheduled to begin filming in New Orleans later this month from February to June, with local children as extras.

Pittsburgh movie-goers can catch the film at the AMC Loews Waterfront 22, SouthSide Works Cinema and Waterworks Cinema 10. Look for locations and movie tickets available for online purchase at Fandango.

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