The Maze Runner has an extremely technical premise.
Aside from the experience deficit between Noyce and Ball, there will likely also be vast differences in tonality between the films.
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He’s directed two shorts ( Jacob: The Movie and A Work in Progress ), but Runner will be his first feature. Wes Ball of The Maze Runner has worked mainly in visual effects and art direction up until now. The Giver ‘s Phillip Noyce made a name directing action thrillers and fast paced crime dramas such as Patriot Games, Salt, and a few episodes of Luck and Revenge.
These films have many similarities, but when it comes to their respective directors, The Giver and The Maze Runner actually diverge significantly. The Maze Runner is lesser-known, mainly because it was only published in 2009, but Lowry’s Giver is a classic tale of individuality. When Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) is transported there, he makes it his mission to find an escape. It takes place inside a strange maze (no surprise there) inhabited by adolescent boys with no memories of their prior lives. The Maze Runner was written by James Dashner over a decade later, much like its equally techie contemporaries Divergent and The Hunger Games. His new role imparts on him all the wisdom and misery of reality, and it’s up to Jonas to live with this new awareness or face the deception of his community head on. At age 12, he’s selected to become the society’s next “Receiver of Memories,” under apprenticeship of The Giver. The premises are as follows: The Giver, Lois Lowry’s classic YA novel, follows a boy named Jonas (played by newcomer Brenton Thwaites) who lives in a utopian society, where everyone has a specific role and no one ever feels any discomfort. Apparently male actors weren’t feeling the love, because now adaptations of The Giver and The Maze Runner are also slated for big-screen releases within a month of each other, later this year. Films like The Hunger Games and Divergent have established the role of the apocalyptic heroine as one of the most popular, and bankable, female characters in Hollwood. Young adult novels crafted out of dystopian fantasy are a dime in a dozen these days. The Maze Runner : two young adult novel adaptations with male leads, played by relative newcomers, that battle oppressive, futuristic societies with alarming stakes.
The film will hit theaters on February 14, 2014.Welcome to Thursday Trailer Face-Off, a feature in which we cast a critical eye on two similar upcoming film releases, pitting them against each other across a variety of categories to determine which is most deserving of your two hours. – Patricia Clarkson as Chancellor Ava Paige The film is based on the novel of the same name written by James Dashner. “Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) 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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A new series of pictures for The Maze Runner, the upcoming science-fiction drama thriller movie directed by Wes Ball and starring Dylan O’Brien: