{"id":17476,"date":"2012-05-18T11:44:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=17476"},"modified":"2012-05-18T11:44:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:44:38","slug":"orci-updates-enders-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/05\/orci-updates-enders-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Orci Updates Ender&#8217;s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17479\" title=\"OrciEndersGame\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/OrciEndersGame.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For <em>Star Trek 2&#8242;<\/em>s <strong>Roberto Orci<\/strong>, his work on <em>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/em> differs from his work on other projects in one major way.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/em>, Andrew &#8220;Ender&#8221; Wiggin is a young boy who has been sent away to Battle School to hone his military skills in hopes of saving the world from an impending alien invasion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Orci explained why working on <em>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/em> was different than working on other projects, including <em>Star Trek<\/em>. &#8220;Let&#8217;s see,&#8221; said Orci. &#8220;Well first, though I have had some experience with bringing beloved stories to the screen that had intelligent and rabid fan bases like <em>Mission Impossible 3, Transformers<\/em> and <em>Star Trek<\/em>; this is the first movie with a pre-existing fan base I have worked on that I didn&#8217;t write.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This means I that got the chance to evaluate the material merely as a fan.\u00a0 <strong>Gavin<\/strong> [<strong>Hood<\/strong>]&#8217;s script made me jealous, but it was also a relief that he had satisfied what I would want as a fan from a difficult adaptation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although his experience on <em>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/em> is a little different for Orci, one thing is familiar, working with congenial actors. &#8220;I have never worked with so many talented young actors who became friends so fast under such amazing circumstances,&#8221; said Orci. &#8220;Seeing <strong>Asa<\/strong> [<strong>Butterfield<\/strong>], who plays Ender, and <strong>Hailee<\/strong> [<strong>Steinfeld<\/strong>], who plays Petra, floating high above the set and getting the giggles was amazing and frightening all at once.\u00a0 They laughed for like twenty minutes, which as a producer on a clock eager to finish your shooting day can give you a heart attack.\u00a0 But soon we all had the giggles, and the joy of it overcame the panic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/em> will be released November 1, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Star Trek 2&#8242;s Roberto Orci, his work on Ender&#8217;s Game differs from his work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[3519,2466],"class_list":["post-17476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-enders-game","tag-orci"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17485,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions\/17485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}