‘The Maze Runner’ Movie Reboot in the Works at 20th Century

The Maze Runner is again on the beginning line.

20^th Century Studios is rebooting the sci-fi motion journey franchise, which ran as a trilogy from 2014 to 2018.

The Disney arm is in negotiations to faucet Jack Paglen, maybe finest recognized for writing the Johnny Depp-starring sci-fi film Transcendence, to pen the script for a brand new installment.

Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman of Gotham Group and Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill, who produced the unique trilogy, are again to provide this one. Wes Ball, who directed the unique trilogy, may even be concerned as a producer.

Based mostly on the best-selling books by James Dashner, the primary Maze Runner tome, and the film adaptation, centered on a gaggle of teenagers who discover themselves arriving in a walled setting named the Glade with their recollections worn out. Past the 4 partitions of the encampment lies a maze, crammed with lethal mechanical creatures and doorways that shut each night time at sunset. One new arrival figures out the important thing to the teams’ survival and makes an attempt to guide them out.

The following films and books opened up the setting, revealing a dystopian world with evil authorities organizations and foul firms. The films turned bigger in scope and extra action-oriented.

In keeping with sources, the reboot just isn’t a redo of the story neither is it a direct sequel to the unique trilogy, which starred Dylan O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario. The hope is to make a kind of continuation of the story but additionally return to the weather that made the primary film join with its viewers. (The unique film, made by twentieth Century Fox within the years main as much as its acquisition by Disney, additionally proved to be an surprising moneymaker, producing $348 million worldwide however costing solely $35 million to make.)

It’s a related technique that 20^th Century is using with the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which simply occurs to be directed by Ball. Kingdom is a reboot of the Apes franchise that doesn’t remake the flicks from the 2010s (or the unique one from the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies) however connects by having a narrative with new characters set generations after the occasions of the earlier movie.

As a author, Paglen additionally labored on Alien: Covenant, the 2017 sci-fi monster film directed by Ridley Scott, and was a co-producer on Magic Order, Netflix’s collection adaptation of the comedian by Mark Millar.

He’s repped by CAA and Lichter Grossman.