New Ender's Game Stills
Sophia Ritchie ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Staff
As the ever-anticipated release of the Ender’s Game movie draws nearer, more and more stills have been released from the set. The newest wave arrived seven days ago, giving us a little more detail into what Ender’s daily life will be like in the upcoming film.
![Ender 1](http://emertainmentmonthly.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/ender-1.jpg)
![Photo courtesy of Cinema Blend.](http://emertainmentmonthly.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/ender-2.jpg)
Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), the protagonist, spends most of the novel (and film, presumably) in an academy for space soldiers, and the newest stills give us a feel for this setting. There is a distinct lack of sleekness in the design of the station. While everything looks futuristic and “spacey”, what should be smooth is blocky; the control desks that students sit at in one still look like a black computer modem from 2000. This is, perhaps, a throwback to the fact that the original novel was written in 1985, and rather than the rounded white Apple-look to all our modern sci-fi films, the directors are embodying that treasured 80s feel to the station’s look.
![Bean (Aramis Knight) shown above. Photo courtesy of Cinema Blend.](http://emertainmentmonthly.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/ender-3.jpg)
Assorted students are shown in the new photos, but most importantly, we’re given a glance at Bean (Aramis Knight), an important character from the novel. In the still, he is just arriving at the station, wearing a look of suspicious wonder as he disembarks from his space shuttle.
While the amount of material released was (and has been) sparse, the movie has a strong enough legacy that interest remains ensured in the coming weeks before the film’s release on November 1st.