While making promotional rounds for Iron Man 3, Sir Ben Kingsley (Mazer Rackham) spoke to Coventry Telegraph about his other upcoming projects, Ender's Game included:
Ender's Game is coming out later this year. How did that work out?
Lovely, but quite different from the challenge of the Mandarin. With Mandarin I was very rarely involved in green screen. In Gandhi we had none. We actually had 4,000 people on screen for the funeral.
In Ender's Game we had a lot of green screen. The kids in the
film were obviously challenged by being told 'It is all going to be
CGI-d later but you have to react' . Gavin (Hood) looked after them so
well and they did form a wonderful relationship with him. So that he
would, where possible, talk them through what they were seeing while
they were reacting to it.He really knocked himself out pumping energy into those kids who
couldn't see anything. I think it is going to be a wonderful film.Tell us about your role.
Mazar Rackham. He is a combination of historically ancient warrior in
that he is descended from Maori and has Maori tattooed on his face. And
at the same time he is teaching children how to operate drones. So he is
very advanced and also rooted in an ancient warrior tradition.
I did not know this was being made into a movie...I just read this book last Month and enjoyed it. Are the sequals worth reading also?
I actually just finished the second book, Speak of the Dead and found it better than Ender's Game.
The sequels are very different than Ender's Game, but are totally worth it in my opinion.
READ THEM ALL. REEEADD
Really they are wonderful story telling. One of those that I cry when the story ends.
and yes I hate to see long sets of books come to an end. I am still looking at my last
book in the wheel of time set. Its there I know it ends, BUT not if I do not read it right now.
FWH BKG wrote: The sequels are very different than Ender's Game, but are totally worth it in my opinion.
That's what I'd say; quite apart from Ender's Game, but worth the read.
I was only in my late teens when I read it the first time and it is still in the top 3 favorites books for me.
