Brendan Meyer is the latest name to join the cast of Summit Entertainment’s upcoming big-screen version of Ender’s Game. The Hollywood Reporter has word that the young star is in negotiations to play the role of Stilson.
To be directed by Gavin Hood (Tsotsi, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Ender’s Game is based on the science fiction novel series by Orson Scott Card, officially described as follows:
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 cutyoung 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.
If he signs on, Kingsley will again act opposite Hugo’s Asa Buttefield, who will be playing Ender. Hailee Steinfeld is also likely for the role of Petra Arkanian and Harrison Ford is said to be a top choice for the role of Colonel Hyrum Graff.
Meyer is best known for playing the leading role on the Disney XD series “Mr. Young”. He’ll star opposite Asa Butterfield as Ender with Hailee Steinfeld and Ben Kingsley currently in talks to star as well.
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