Bam! Pow! Zap! Asa Butterfield of 'Ender's Game' on Sci-fi and Space Camp, and Why Angeline Jolie Just Had to Be Maleficent
Beginning of the Ender Even before he was cast in the coveted role of Ender Wiggin, the young hero of novelist Orson Scott Card’s beloved 1985 classic Ender’s Game, 16-year-old Asa Butterfield admits he was an unabashed science fiction fan. “One of the things I really like about sci-fi is how a lot of the time the technology that is shown in the film is coming,” says Butterfield. “Of course it's very advanced and it's often set in the future – but when you find out that these things are being developed... One of the things which quite excites me: how you look at it and think, 'Wow, my kids or grandkids may have this sort of technology.'” Butterfield’s personal sci-fi tastes also skew heavily toward allegorical...
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- 11/1/2013
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- Fandango
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