
Wes Ball
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Biography
Wes Ball (born October 28, 1980) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for directing the Maze Runner film trilogy (2014–2018), based on James Dashner's series of novels of the same name, as well as Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), the fourth instalment in the Planet of the Apes reboot series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wes Ball, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society, he begins to uncover clues that may lead to escape and the truth behind their confinement.
The Maze Runner

Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
Phoenix Forgotten

Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.
Beginners

A hot one-night stand turns into an awkward morning after when Guy and Holly get stuck in a dead-stopped traffic jam.
#Stuck

A live-action adaptation of Nintendo's Legend of Zelda video game series.
The Legend of Zelda
An upcoming adaptation of Reikon’s popular video game Ruiner.
Ruiner

In a future where cities have crumbled and been reclaimed by nature we join a lone man exploring the ruins of the company Haven Nanosystems. Recovering a locked container he seems to have found what he was looking for, which is information relating to the quarantined Facility B. Unfortunately just as located by a robotic drone and the race to escape is on.
Ruin
A group of teens with superpowers go up against the corporation that tried to exploit their talents.
Harbinger
A somewhat continuation of the franchise. Plot TBA.
Untitled Maze Runner Reboot
Heists do not solely exist in the movies. These high profile schemes are elaborately planned, artful in their Machiavellian plotting, and so meticulously coordinated that they are often referred to as "the masterpieces of the confidence game". Often aimed at impossibly ambitious targets - casinos, jewelry stores, or famous museums - the masterminds behind these crimes are often heralded as the ingenious magicians of the underworld. The mystery and magnitude of these real crime stories sparks an undeniable interest for us innocent onlookers - a sense of seduction, spectacle and entertainment.
Masters of the Heist

A cosmic archaeologist journeys through space and time to capture evidence of a forgotten Earth.
Telescope

Steampunk short animated film about a traveler in an airship crossing through a storm.
Eye of the Storm

Combining both worlds of traditional live-action and CG, this short film follows the vivid imagination of a lonely girl as she searches for a friend. A Work in Progress received a Student Academy Award in the Animation Category.
A Work in Progress
Film adaptation of the sci-fi / fantasy thriller novel by Claire North.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
A fantasy film rooted in Norse mythology that is based on the Kickstarted book of the same name.
Fall of Gods
Paramount has acquired The Time Runner, a novella that Wes Ball will develop to direct.
The Time Runner
The film’s logline is being kept under wraps.