Visiting the New Orleans set of Ender's Game was a moment many would have never thought would happen. Orson Scott Card's 1985 novel was a landmark for many who consider its themes of youth trained to do battle with alien aggressors to be both poignant and, well, awesome. Its tortured three-decade trip to the screen was hampered by the enormous budget it would necessitate, not to mention the potential outrage of audiences who don't want to see middle school-aged kids turned into junior General Patton's.
Then a little movie called The Hunger Games made such a project all of the sudden very commercially viable, which is why the studio that put that picture out, Summit/Lionsgate, ponied up some of the dough.
So here we were at Big Easy Studios in eastern New Orleans, where...
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