Considering their vast amount of experience trying to keep control of the massively popular Twilight franchise, it should come as no surprise that Summit Entertainment is doing such a good job piecing together the cast for Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card's revered sci-fi franchise that fans have been waiting more than a decade to see hit the big screen. Gavin Hood(Tsotsi) is adapting the first novel, which takes place in a future where children are born and bred to become elite military strategists and soldiers, in order to protect humanity from an alien insectoid race.
With the bulk of the primary cast already taken care of with Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, and Viola Davis, some of the smaller roles are starting to be filled out. Deadline reports that three have come aboard, including Nonso Anozie in the role of Sergeant Dap. Anozie was most recently seen as one of the survivors alongside Liam Neeson in The Grey. He also played the best friend to Jason Momoa in last summer's Conan the Barbarian. In addition, Stevie Ray Dallimore and Andrea Powell will play Ender's parents, John and Theresa. In the first book, they don't have much of a role to play and are presented as being a little dull, but in later stories we learn quite a bit more about them.
Filming on Ender's Game begins later this month in New Orleans, with plans for a March 15th 2013 release.
