For a long time I was skeptical that this movie could ever be made, simply because it would be impossible to find someone to play Ender. You need a 11-year-old who can seem simultaneously sympathetic and capable of killing another child.
Then I saw Hugo. Asa Butterfield might actually be able to pull that one off.
In the book, Ender does'n knowingly kill the other children, he just beats them to the ground with, arguably, little empathy as a counter reaction to bullying.
Then I saw Hugo. Asa Butterfield might actually be able to pull that one off.