Ender's Game

Decades after humanity nearly lost Earth to the Formics, it's training children for war. Colonel Graff picks 12-year-old Ender Wiggin and takes him to Battle School in orbit. Kept isolated on purpose, Ender gets help from Petra, draws Bonzo's hatred and ends up commanding Dragon Army, a squad of rejects that starts winning everything. After a fight that leaves Bonzo badly hurt, Ender wants out but comes back. At a forward base, Mazer Rackham runs the final test, a simulation where Ender sacrifices most of the fleet to destroy the Formic home world. It wasn't a simulation. Devastated, Ender finds the last queen, who gives him an egg. He heads into space to find her a new home.

1. CameoCard flies the shuttle

   Orson Scott Card has an uncredited voice cameo as the shuttle pilot who takes Ender up to Battle School.

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2. Behind the scenesThe Warner Bros. version

   Warner Bros. once had a Card script that blended the novels Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow into an Ender and Bean buddy story, with Wolfgang Petersen set to direct. The project moved to Lionsgate, which kept only the first book.

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3. ReferenceDisruption became Detachment

   The film's final weapon is called the Molecular Detachment Device. In the book it's the Molecular Disruption Device. The "MD" stays the same.

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4. Behind the scenesA boycott before release

   In July 2013, the group Geeks OUT called for a boycott over Card's views against same-sex marriage. Lionsgate said it did not share the author's personal views.

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