Hailee Steinfeld Up For Ender's Game

She'll play Petra ArkanianThings are extremely trying to find for your film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel Ender's Game, which sitting for any very long time available marked "Hard To Film" but continues to be plucked lower by Summit Entertainment, OddLot Entertainment and author/director Gavin Hood. The casting process was already arrived, with Hugo's Asa Butterfield in place since the titular lead now True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld in discussions to participate him.Provided she locks in the deal, Steinfeld may have Petra Arkanian, one of the handful of female mma fighters utilized by Earth's forces to teach to fight an allegedly deadly insect-like race. Inside the competitive atmosphere in the Fight School, where the youngsters are split up into groups and hang up against one another to check on them (to destruction, essentially), Petra's inside the Salamander Military, but befriends Ender helping him through his beginning inside the School despite he joins one of the opposing teams.Hood, along with producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, may also be round the search with an older actor to see no-nonsense Colonel Hyrum Gruff, the man who trains the boys inside an elite academy. Viggo Mortensen was offered the role but passed, now several other people are being considered, including Harrison Ford.Steinfeld's star remains around the fast ascent since Grit, and she's nabbed several roles, including two different assumes Romeo & Juliet. The foremost is Carlo Carlie's indie version,whichkicks off shooting the next month in Italia another, referred to as Rosaline, focuses on Romeo's jilted lover who in this particular tale witnesses her ex and also the current form a suicide pact.There's no date for Ender's Game to start production at this time around, nevertheless it already posseses an designated release slot searching for March 29, 2013.