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Honestly, I think that’s just a bit too conspiracy theory to me. *A peer of mine noted on Twitter that Summit might have planted the question to be able to control the question and response on their own terms. Not only did was the issue raised, it was the first question.* Traditionally, audience questions are a major part of any Comic-Con panel, but until today many wondered if Summit would even risk someone asking about the Card controversy. The studio’s parent company Lionsgate, no doubt trying to calm the fire before the publicity machine ramped up at Comic-Con, released a statement distancing the film from the author and announcing the picture’s premiere would be a benefit for an unspecified LGBT cause. Card did himself and Summit no favors by releasing a statement that was pretty much a backhanded admission that his attempts to stop gay marriage from becoming legal across the country were futile.

8 in California put the spotlight back on the film, while Geeks Out announced that they intended to boycott the film. Summit hoped it would all go away, but the recent Supreme Court ruling on DOMA and Prop. Unfortunately, Card’s personal beliefs have become a distraction to the film’s general marketing and publicity campaign.Ĭard, who wrote the original novel in 1985, has been an outspoken anti-gay marriage and gay rights advocate, a position that puts him at odds with recent nationwide polling on the issue, not to mention a clear majority of the Hollywood creative community.

Throw in crowd-pleasing moderator Chris Hardwicke and you have the formula for a panel that should knock it out of the park. Ford has only appeared on a panel at Comic-Con once before as a surprise guest during Jon Favreau’s “Cowboys & Aliens” event in 2010, which resulted in a rare Hall H standing ovation that seemed to move the legendary actor to tears.ĭirector Gavin Hood and producer Roberto Orci brought along new footage that highlighted the tension between Kingsley, Ford and Davis’s characters, as well as a level of special effects many might not have expected based on the film’s early trailers. The film stars movie icon Harrison Ford as Colonel Hyrum Graff, Ender’s teacher at a futuristic battle school, along with Oscar winner Ben Kingsley and former nominees Viola Davis and Hailee Steinfeld. “Ender’s Game” is an adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s critically acclaimed sci-fi novel about a talented young boy, Ender (Asa Butterfield), whose strategic gifts are seen as Earth’s last hope against a dangerous alien foe. In theory, the planned showcase should have been a slam dunk, and for the audience it mostly was.

SAN DIEGO – Summit Entertainment’s “Ender’s Game” was the highlight of Thursday’s weak movie panel schedule at Comic-Con 2013, but not for all the reasons the studio hoped for.

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