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The Help’s Viola Davis Joins The Cast Of Ender’s Game & Another Best-Seller

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:02 pm, February 3rd

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Oscar nominated actress Viola Davis is the latest to be cast in the big screen adaptation of the sci-fi novel Ender’s Game but she’s also picked up another famous book adaptation role as well. 

Davis previously tackled sci-fi with the film Solaris in 2002, in Ender’s Game she’ll play a “military psychologist” responsible for the emotional welfare of the young recruits.

Summit Entertainment is bringing us the adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s best-selling novel and I must say, it really looks as if they are putting their best face forward for the project. Gavin Hood is writing and directing the film and Sir Ben Kingsley was recently confirmed for the role of Mazer Rackham joining an incredible cast of Harrison Ford, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld and of course Asa Butterfield as Ender.

Davis was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in Doubt back in 2009 and will be at the Academy Awards again this year (going for Best Actress in a Leading Role) thanks to her time as Aibileen Clark in The Help.

It’s obvious the actress is in high demand. She’ll also be joinging the cast of Alcon Entertainment’s adaptation of the Kami Carcia and Margaret Stohl penned supernatural thriller Beautiful Creatures.

“A hauntingly intense coming of age story set in the South, Beautiful Creatures is about two star-crossed teenage lovers, Ethan, a local boy, and a mysterious new girl, Lena, who uncover dark secrets about their families, their history and their town,” according to a press release on Deadline. Davis will take on the role of Amma, a seer who looks after Ethan and his father. Writer/director Richard LaGravenese is adapting the first installment of the three-book series.

(via Empire)

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  • http://twitter.com/LadiesMakeComix Ladies Making Comics

    OMG, she’s going to be playing Amma??  She’s my second favorite character from that book, I’m so happy she’s got a great actress playing her.  

  • Terence Ng

    In a recent interview, she stated that  to be really honest, the types of roles she’s been offered hadn’t changed despite her growing press with some of her earlier films.

    So it’s a relief to see that at least now, she’s getting a few roles that are more diverse and less typecast.  It’s amazing how press can suddenly make your options so much wider, when your talent has been steady the entire time…

  • Anonymous

    Ender’s Game is getting a great cast! Can RT please stop putting it under Rotten Ideas of the Week now?

  • Frodo Baggins

    Christ, I don’t even remember that character. It’s been too long since I read it.

  • Valerye V. Chaves

    Yay for Amma! I guess Amma is sort of similiar to her role in The Help in some ways , but she is the most respected person in that fictional town and just a general badass.