Ender's Game snags Viola Davis

The Help's star Viola Davis has joined the cast of the ever-impressive Ender's Game, as reported by Variety.  Davis will play a military psychologist, overseeing the boys' emotional well-being. Asa Butterfield will star as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin.  Hailee Steinfeld as Petra Arkanian, Abigail Breslin as Valentine Wiggin, Jax Pinchak as Peter Wiggin, Aramis Knight as Bean, Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham, and Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff also star. Gavin Hood will direct and has written the screenplay.  The fact that Gavin Hood is directing and writing is the only that could go wrong at this point.  He did X-Men Origins: Wolverine, after all.

Davis has also been tapped to play a guardian seer in the film adaptation Beautiful Creatures, a modern fantasy thriller.