Harrison Ford Cast In Ender’s Game

Rumors have been circulating for a while that veteran actor Harrison Ford was wanted to play a role in the upcoming movie adaptation of the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. The rumors are now fact as Ford has been cast as Colonel Hyram Graff.

Ford’s character Graff, is the man responsible for training the cadets at the military academy that Ender Wiggins attends. Also joining the cast is Abigail Breslin (Zombieland), playing Ender’s sister, Valentine Wiggin. They join the previously cast Asa Butterfield (Hugo) as Ender Wiggin and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) as Petra Arkanian.

The film is currently on track to be released on March 15th, 2013.

A synopsis of the the 1985 Orson Scott Card sci-fi novel:

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn’t make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender’s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender’s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

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