Fans of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game can take note that another step in bringing the book to the big screen has been taken -- Hugo actor Asa Butterfield has been signed to take on the plum role of Ender Wiggin.
Ender's Game tells the story of humankind trying to survive a war that's been waging for a hundred years. Young Ender is a prodigy at the art of war and is sent to a military academy in space, where children fight endless war games in hopes to find the one who can lead humans to victory against the alien race that wants to enslave them.
Part psychological thriller, part post apocalyptic SF, Ender's Game has long been desired as movie material. It's also the first book in a series and could be the lead in to a series of movies should this first be successful.
Actor Harrison Ford is also said to be in talks with Summit Entertainment, the studio producing the film, to take a role in the film. Tentative release date is March of 2013.
If you would like to read Ender's Game, as well as the rest of the series, you can find them through all online book sellers as well as locally from Joseph-Beth Booksellers in the Lexington Green Mall on Nicholasville Road or Barnes & Noble in the Hamburg Pavilion Shopping Center on Man o' War Blvd.
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