Yesterday Lionsgate had their presentation for their upcoming films of the year. Among these films they highlighted the Ender’s Game movie with a special presentation of a teaser trailer. Lionsgate Motion Picture Group co-chairman, Rob Friedman, introduced Asa Butterfield, Ender Wiggin, and Hailee Steinfeld, Petra Arkanian, both who are honorees at the event, as they gave the audience the first look at the Ender’s Game trailer.
ComingSoon posted about the trailer:
which features lots of shots of Ender’s zero-G training, battles with the Formic race both in space and within a planet’s upper atmosphere and lots of dialogue from Ford’s Hyrum Graff and Ben Kingsley’s Mazer Rackham (the latter of whom has his character’s very intricate face tattoo).
So it looks like Mazer will have a distinguishable look in the movie. Buzzfeed, too, talks about the tattoos.
Unlike other major franchise launches, the trailer did not hold back on giving fans a great deal of what they want to see: The zero gravity Battle Room; several battles with Bugger ships; the Maori facial tattoos on Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), etc.
io9 has a very detailed report of the trailer. I won’t put the whole details up, you can read them all at the web link, but here is an excerpt from what they saw:
The trailer’s opening shot takes place in a purpled-sky filled with Bugger ships. The swarms of alien ships move like a hive against a smaller group of human jets. Explosions and alien weaponry crash in the atmosphere. We can only assume that this is one of Mazer Rackham’s infamous battles, which is later used as big-time propaganda against the war with the Formics (an insect like alien race).
Over the war-porn booms the voice of Colonel Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford), “They know our strategies, they know our weaknesses, and they nearly destroyed us…. We need a new weapon.”
Following the showing of the trailer Harrison Ford took center stage to talk about the movie and this is what he had to say,
“I was attracted to it not just for the scale of it and the power of it visually, but there’s a great human story here,” he said.
Getty Images posted this photo of Harrison Ford from the presentation:
Though the trailer that was shown isn’t the finished product, still it would have been amazing to be one of those first people to glimpse Ender’s world.
Also, let us not forget the three Ender’s Game cast members that were awarded that night as well.
Asa Butterfield for the Rising Star Award.
via Just Jared
Hailee Steinfeld for Female Star of Tomorrow Award.
via Just Jared
Harrison Ford the Lifetime Achievement Award.
via Just Jared
Check out these pictures from Hailee’s and Asa’s instagram, along with more pictures from the event courtesy of Just Jared.
The Ender’s Game trailer will be attached to the Star Trek: Into Darkness movie which will premiere May 17th. Ender’s Game movie opens on November 1st.
