Wes Ball

Amblin Partners has acquired feature film rights to The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (buy at Amazon), the sci-fi novel written by Claire North, which won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. In the movie, …

Disney’s 20th Century Fox is developing a new Planet of the Apes movie that will be directed by Wes Ball, the filmmaker behind the popular Maze Runner films, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The site adds that it is unclear whether the new project is a new reboot or an extension of the previous film series. The Planet of …