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Gavin Hood’s (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) Ender’s Game is one most anticipated sci-fi movies in a long, long time. Orson Scott Card’s epic, sweeping saga is getting an aesthetically appropriate release as Lionsgate will unleash the adventure in IMAX.

That’s a wrap! Principal photography on Ender’s Game has come to an end. To share the production’s excitement with the end of principal photography, producer Roberto Orci posted his thoughts and highlights Art Direction and Production Design team, Ben Procter and Sean Haworth, on the film’s official on-set tumblr blog. Orci describes the duo as a mixture of strong illustrators with the ability to build physical sets.

First though the Ender’s Game is showing off new photos. Here’s a gate, no way to tell if it’s down…

November 1, 2013 is a long time away and fans of Ender’s Game anxiously await a look at the future portrayed in Orson Scott Card’s seminal science fiction novel. On the productions official on-set tumblr, producers of the film give fans a small glimpse of the overall production itself. In the latest update they hint towards the general look, feel and tone of the future depicted in Ender’s Game.

They highlight the costume designer of the film, Christine Bieselin-Clark, who also worked on some groundbreaking films like Zack Snyder’s 300 and Watchmen, and more recently TRON: Legacy. This is a very impressive track record, in terms of costume design.

With science fiction, there’s a danger in creating a look that seems so foreign it becomes alienating. For ENDER’S GAME, we wanted to make a future that looked both functional and logical. We wanted it to be a future where you can picture yourself in their shoes.

You can exhale Ender’s Game fans; Battle School definitely won’t be portrayed as a sleep away space camp where kids sing around camp fires and while making model rockets. In the newest Ender’s Game production blog entry entry reveals that the young actors had to go through boot camp, where they were taught to march in unison, and even, rather stereotypically, given pushups if they messed up. Accordingly, these kids are now more ripped than any of us could ever hope, or probably want to be.

They probably all look like this now:

About the internal monologues, there won’t be a voiceover. Most of what Ender and the other characters are thinking will either be transferred into the script or kept entirely out. Bean’s character will still be relatively prominent, probably thanks to Orson Scott Card’s heartfelt pleas for them not to butcher the books any more than they have to, but they’re leaving it up to the viewers to decide if Aramis Knight’s character is truly “pivotal.”