THR exclusively announces that 20th Century Studios has begun developing a new film set in the world created by James Dashner in the trilogy of ‘The Maze Runner’.
Jack Paglen (‘Transcendence’, ‘Alien: Covenant’) will be in charge of writing the script for this film which, according to the aforementioned media, will be neither a new version nor a sequel to the original saga.
The model to follow would be the same one popularized by titles like ‘Mad Max: Fury Road‘ and that the study has already put into practice without going any further with ‘kingdom of the planet of the apes‘, a film to be released next Friday also directed by Wes Ball, responsible for the trilogy of ‘The Maze Runner’and which represents a new beginning for a franchise whose events nevertheless continue to respect.
The aforementioned Wes Ball will in fact be one of its producers along with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman of Gotham Group and Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill Entertainment, in turn responsible for the three films released in 2014, 2015 and 2018 that They grossed almost $1 billion worldwide for a combined budget of $158 million.
