Biography wes ball

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Wes Ball

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 filmskapare 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), 20^th 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

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Wes Ball
American film director
Wes Ball (born October 28, 1980) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for directing the Maze Runner film trilogy (2014–2018), based on James Dashner's series of novels of the same name, as well as Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), the fourth installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot series.
Education
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Ball attended Crescent City High School and graduated in 1999. He graduated from the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2002.^[1] In 2003, he won a Student Academy Award for his short, animated film A Work in Progress.^[2]
Career
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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.^[3]The Maze Runner would be Ball's first feature film.^[4] Made on a budget of $
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Wes Ball
Age
43 (October 28, 1980)
Occupation
Director
Visual Effects artist
Graphic artist
Producer
Writer
Wes Ball is an American visual effects artist, graphic artist, director, producer, and writer. He is best known for directing the Maze Runner Films, the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes film, and The Legend of Zelda live action adaption.
Education[]
Wes graduated from the FSU (Florida State University) College of Motion Picture Arts with a BFA in 2002. For his thesis, he created a 7-minute short film called A Work in Progress which won a Bronze Medal from the Student Academy Awards in 2003 for animation, although it contains both computer animation and live-action. The animation illustrates the story, while the live-action shows the girl who is telling the story.
Past & Current Works[]
Ball got his start as a Hollywood filmmaker with the animated short named Ruin. The film was a commercial and critical success, with Ball receivi