70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.
That is the most concise synopsis you’ll find of the upcoming film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s 1985 science fiction novel Ender’s Game. Written and directed by Gavin Hood, Ender’s Game stars Asa Butterfield (Hugo) as the film’s child protagonist Ender Wiggin, Harrison Ford is Colonel Graff, Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) is Valentine Wiggin, Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) is Petra Arkanian, Viola Davis (The Help) is Major Anderson, and Sir Ben Kingsley is Mazer Rackham. There are many who thought a film adaptation of this sci-fi classic couldn’t be done, but take a look for yourself in the premiere trailer embedded above; as a big fan of the book I’m excited to see more. Are you?
Ender’s Game hits theatres November 1.
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Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) reunites with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in The World’s End: “Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival.” It’s Beerfest meets The Watch, to put it mildly. Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Rosamund Pike also star.
The World’s End is out August 23.
Paul Greengrass, the director behind two Borne movies and the gripping United 93, is back with his next film Captain Phillips. Tom Hanks stars in the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. Greengrass’ gritty, in-your-face shooting style is kind of love-it-or-hate-it, but there’s no denying the raw sense of emotion and action he’s able to capture here.
Captain Phillips is out October 11.
Marvel has been killing it in the box office with their live-action efforts including The Avengers and most recently Iron Man 3. Now, Walt Disney Animation Studios in collaboration with Marvel is about to test the animation waters with Big Hero 6. Due out in November 2014, Big Hero 6 “will center on a robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada and his robot companion BayMax, who join a team of superheroes in a high-tech city called San Fransokyo.” The film will be based on Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau’s comic that was introduced in 1998. The CG-animated flick is being helmed by Don Hall (Winnie the Pooh). The clip embedded here can’t be called a trailer; in 34 seconds it merely teases the Disney-imagined mashup of Tokyo (the city where the comic takes place) and San Fransisco: San Fransokyo. Stay tuned for more. [Synopsis via Hero Complex]