As director Wes Ball prepares to return to the cinema with his new film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, branded Disney and 20th Century Studiosthe two companies have just announced the reboot of the saga that made him famous, that is Maze Runner.
In these hours it has been officially confirmed that 20th Century Studios is rebooting the Maze Runner franchise, which has already arrived on the big screen in the past with a trilogy released between 2014 and 2018 distributed by Fox. Now Disney is in talks to hire Jack Paglen, best known for writing the science fiction film Transcendence with Johnny Depp, to write the screenplay for the new chapter of the franchise. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman of the Gotham Group and Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill, who produced the original trilogy, are back for produce the reboot alongside Wes Ballauthor of all the films of the original trilogy, and who will be personally involved as a producer here.
According to sources, however, the Maze Runner reboot will be neither a remake nor a sequel to the original films, starring Dylan O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario. The creators’ hope is to create a sort of continuation of that story set in the same world, but at the same time recreate the elements that made the first film in the saga a success worth 348 million dollars worldwide with a budget of only 35 million dollars.
For other content we remind you that Wes Ball is also working on the long-awaited live-action film of The Legend of Zelda for Sony and Nintendo.
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