Ender’s Game, a movie that will be premiering Nov. 1, is based off of a book written by Orson Scott Card with the same title. It won the Hugo Award along with its sequel, Speaker for the Dead. The movie, if it is anything like the book, will start off with a game of Buggers and Astronauts where we are introduced to our hero—Ender. At the age of six, Ender Wiggin is taken from his family to be shipped off to an elite school for incredibly gifted children. The aim of this school is simple – turn their students into the greatest military geniuses the world has ever known.

A few hundred years ago, the Earth was devastated by an alien species called the Buggers, because the species resembles giant ants, with a singular purpose to destroy all life on earth. Barely winning the last invasion, the countries of Earth formed together a single unitary power called the I.F. (International Fleet) that has the authority to make laws and break bones whereever and whenever they see fit.

Knowing that another invasion is only a few hundred years away at the latest, the I.F. starts a school—the battle school to prepare themselves for the second storm.

Ender’s goal is destroy the Buggers at all costs, even if that means leaving everyone he knows and loves behind.

The movie stars and impressive cast with actors and actresses like Harrison Ford as Col. Hyrum Graff, Asa Butterflied as Ender, Oscar winning Ben Kingsley as Mazar Rackham, Oscar-nominated Hailee Stienfeld as Petra Arkanian and two-time Oscar-nominated Viola Davis as Major Gwen Anderson. So to say that their cast is superb, which includes many other great actors and actresses, may be the understatement of the year as it has probably the best cast of 2013.

So if you’re looking for an already major award-winning story to watch performed by amazing actors and actresses, with special effects like something out of a Star Wars movie, or if you want a gut-renching story with incredible characters that will leave you speechless at the end, go see Ender’s Game November 1st.