Asa Butterfield locks 'Ender's Game'

Butterfield "Hugo" star Asa Butterfield has closed a deal to star since the title character in "Ender's Game," Odd Lot Entertainment's adaptation of Orson Scott Card's 1985 sci-fi novel, which won both Hugo and Nebula honours before breeding a collection.Gavin Hood ("X-Males Roots: Wolverine") is pointing the pic, which Summit Entertainment will release March 15, 2013. Advanced tale follows a gifted youthful gamer by getting a nearly preternatural ease of strategy and logistics who's employed with the government to help fight a bug-like alien race.Because the producers have found their youthful lead, their focus turns for the adult lead of Colonel Hyrum Graff, the Commander of training for your Worldwide Fleet, a high-notch boys' military academy. Viggo Mortensen happen to be specific for your role, but people talks didn't exercise and producers are really speaking about another quantity of veteran thesps, including Harrison Ford.Odd Lot's Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough are coming up with "Ender's Game" with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman via their K/O Paper Products banner, additionally to Lynn Hendee and Card.Butterfield, who starred in "The Boy inside the Chocolate candy striped Pajamas" before toplining Martin Scorsese's "Hugo," has furthermore came out in "Boy of Rambow," "Nanny McPhee Returns" and "The Wolfman." He's repped by CAA and Independent Talent Group. Contact Rob Sneider at rob.sneider@variety.com