Wes Ball
Birthdate: October 28, 1980 (45 Years Old)
Birthplace: USA
Wes Ball (birthname: Wesley Martin Ball) is a director and producer of four-quadrant studio blockbusters, after working on features in several capacities, including as a pre-visualization artist, graphic artist, and visual effects artist on indie filmmaker Mike Mills’s comedy-drama, Beginners (2010), co-starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, and Melanie Laurent, and which was released by Focus Features after premiering at the Toronto film festival.
After making three short films as director-producer from 2002 to 2011, Ball launched his feature directing career with The Maze Runner (2014), 20th Century Fox’s successful big-screen transfer of James Dashner’s novel starring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter, and Patricia Clarkson, and grossing ten times its $34 million budget with a global take of $348.3 million.
Ball was director and executive producer of the first Maze Runner sequel, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), reuniting the original cast with new cast members Giancarlo Esposito, Aiden Gillen, Ki Hong Lee, Barry Pepper, and Lili Taylor, grossing $312.4 million against $61 million costs. Ball held the twin billings of director-producer for the first time in features with the third and final entry in the Maze Runner series with Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)—-again written by screenwriter T.S. Nowlin, adapting James Dashner’s novel—and featuring new cast member Walton Goggins alongside the returning cast, and earning a $288 million global take on a $62 budget.
Wes Ball was director-producer of the highly anticipated sequel, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), the follow-up to the remarkable War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) and the fourth entry in 20th Century Studios’ Planet of the Apes rebooted franchise, co-starring Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Pater Macon, and William H. Macy.
Ball was producer only (with, among other producers, Ridley Scott) on co-writer/director Justin Barber’s found-footage sci-fi horror movie, Phoenix Forgotten (2017), starring Chelsea Lopez and Florence Hartigan, and losing money for distributor/production company Cinelou Films with a poor $3.7 million return.
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- 2024 |
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
- 2018 |
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as "The Flare".
- 2015 |
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles.
- 2014 |
The Maze Runner
Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "runners" for a shot at escape.
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- 2024 |
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
- 2018 |
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as "The Flare".
- 2017 |
Phoenix Forgotten
Two decades 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.
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