Wes Ball was born on October 28,1980 and is an American film director, visual effects artist and graphic artist.
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10 Facts About Wes Ball
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Wes Ball is best known for directing the 2014 film The Maze Runner, based on James Dashner's novel.
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Wes Ball attended Crescent City High School and graduated in 1999.
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Wes Ball graduated from the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2002.
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Wes Ball got his start as a Hollywood filmmaker with an animated short named Ruin, which executives at 20th Century Fox saw and offered him the job to direct the adaptation to The Maze Runner.
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Not long after the success of the film, Wes Ball signed a first look deal with 20th Century Fox under his OddWes Ball Entertainment banner.
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Wes Ball is attached to direct a film adaptation of Fall of Gods, a crowdfunded illustrated novel from Denmark-based Mood Studios.
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In December 2019, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Fox hired Wes Ball to develop and direct a new film in the Planet of the Apes reboot series, as Matt Reeves, director of the previous two, was too busy with his film The Batman to return.
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In May 2021, Wes Ball was set to direct The Time Runner a feature adaptation of the novella of the same name by Michael Sherman.
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In March 2022, Ball was set to produce a film based on an untitled H G Wells book.
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