Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' producer and VFX supervisor opened up about Wes Ball's Apocalypto-inspired vision for the upcoming movie.

Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners has tapped The Maze Runner filmmaker Wes Ball to direct a feature adaptation of Claire North's sci-fi novel The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Collider has confirmed. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August follows a man who is repeatedly born into the same life and can remember all of his past experiences. He sets out to save the world from a similarly gifted rival who’s willing to make any sacrifice to attain godlike knowledge and power. Blueprint Pictures (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) originally optioned the Hachette novel and developed …

It sounds like the new Planet of the Apes movie in the works at 20th Century Fox Studios won’t be a total reboot after all. When news broke in December that The Maze Runner trilogy director Wes Ball had signed on to helm a new Planet of the Apes movie, it was unclear if it would be a reboot of franchise or a sequel. After all, director Matt Reeves had just brought the most recent trilogy to an emotional (and violent) conclusion with the excellent 2017 film War for the Planet of the Apes. Moreover, would the new Disney …

20th Century Fox is moving forward on a new Planet of the Apes movie and has tapped The Maze Runner director Wes Ball to helm it. Following Disney's acquisition of Fox earlier in the year, it was unclear what the House of Mouse would do with many of the more adult franchises it had inherited including Planet of the Apes. The sci-fi series about simians taking over the world after the downfall of many in the future has long been a championed franchise at Fox so there was never too much of a worry it couldn't be …

The more I see of Mouse Guard, the more impressed I am with the amount of high-quality work that went into the adaptation's pre-production ... and the more pissed off I am that Disney axed it. The collateral damage from the $71.3 billion buyout of Fox, where the Wes Ball-directed film was previously set up, not only scuttles the adaptation of writer-illustrator David Petersen's medieval mouse tale, it also cuts the legs out from under the artists, animators, and other below-the-line specialists who were hoping to continue work on it. On the …