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Ender's Game

2013 film directed by Gavin Hood

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Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

Released: 2013-10-24114 minDir: Gavin HoodScience Fiction, Action, Adventure

Cast

Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin
Hailee Steinfeld as Petra Arkanian
Harrison Ford as Colonel Hyrum Graff
Viola Davis as Major Gwen Anderson
Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham
Abigail Breslin as Valentine Wiggin

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Key facts

Directed by: Gavin Hood
Screenplay by: Gavin Hood
Based on: Ender's Game , by Orson Scott Card
Produced by: Roberto Orci Alex Kurtzman Gigi Pritzker Linda McDonough Robert Chartoff Lynn Hendee Orson Scott Card Ed Ulbrich
Starring: Asa Butterfield Harrison Ford Ben Kingsley Viola Davis Hailee Steinfeld Abigail Breslin
Cinematography: Donald McAlpine
Edited by: Zach Staenberg Lee Smith
Music by: Steve Jablonsky
Production companies: OddLot Entertainment Chartoff Productions Taleswapper K/O Paper Products
Distributed by: Summit Entertainment (through Lionsgate )
Release dates: October 24, 2013 ( 2013-10-24 ) (Germany) November 1, 2013 ( 2013-11-01 ) (United States)
Running time

Key dates

Published: 7 November 2013

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: film
Genre: children's film
Country of origin: United States
Original language: English language
Based on: Ender's Shadow
Main subject: alien invasion
Director: Gavin Hood
Screenwriter: Gavin Hood
Cast member: Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Composer: Steve Jablonsky

Article

Ender's Game is a 2013 American military science fiction film written and directed by Gavin Hood, based on the 1985 novel by Orson Scott Card. The film stars Asa Butterfield as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, a gifted child sent to an advanced military academy in space to prepare for a future alien invasion. The supporting cast includes Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Hailee Steinfeld, and Abigail Breslin.

Ender's Game was released in the United States on November 1, 2013, by Summit Entertainment. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, but underperformed at the box-office, grossing $126 million against a $110–115 million budget, with a projected loss of $68 million for the studio.