Ender’s Game: Creating the Zero-G Battle Rooms

Ender’s Game, the film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s terrific science fiction novel, hit theaters this past Friday. Now, Wired takes us behind the scenes to look at the creation of one of the centerpieces of the storyline: the zero gravity battle rooms in which Ender Wiggin first learns to command his armies. In the filming of the movie, Director Gavin Hood had to solve the problem of convincingly showing actors moving freely in a zero gravity environment. In order to do this, only the actor’s face is captured on film and the rest is added through digital processes.