Maze Runner

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Studio suits are just business men, who look at things like 'big data'. Everything in broad strokes. But sometimes, even the creative types sometimes have to compromise just for a job. Happens all the time.
 
Dude, I'm a writer who works with these people - I know. I should clarify not these people in particular, but the same types of people.

The Giver, you can group that in with it. That is clearly 100% studio driven.

Warm Bodies is beyond unjustly hooked into Twilight. It was an exact adaptation of the book. And I might be wrong - Ender's Game and Maze Runner seem to be very close adaptations as well. So they got the green light, but from there they are largely their own entities.

I'll give an example. I have a genre film that Universal is currently interested in acquiring. When I was writing this genre film, another genre film took off in pre-pro and now the idea of telling a film in this genre is a popular idea and notion. HOWEVER, no thought about that went into the making of it or trying to get it off the ground. BUT people will unjustly establish that connection. They will likely say that it is an attempt to copy the other film when I knew absolutely nothing about it when I was trying to get it off the ground. Just by luck, something similar took off granting me a much easier spring-board to selling it.

Different scenario, but still the same schematics. Or I can say the other film Universal is looking into came during the storm of another genre of films that is still going on, it came from the same initial start-up seeing that it could work. But, from there it had absolutely nothing else in common other than the initial spark. And saying that it does would be completely underselling it.

I just hate to see these creative people on numerous films are being written off like this.
 
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Fault in Our Stars Gets Release Date, Maze Runner Pushed Back

Two high profile book adaptations are currently in development by 20th Century Fox, and one of them, John Green's The Fault in our Stars will be released next summer on June 6. Meanwhile, the adaptation of James Dashner's The Maze Runner, about a group of young men who are put through a daily ritual running through a maze, has given up its February release date as 20th Century Fox has pushed it back seven months for release on September 19, 2014.

Starring Shailene Woodley, Sam Trammell and Willem Dafoe, directed by Josh Boone (Stuck in Love from a script by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber ((500) Days of Summer), "Fault" tells the story of a teen girl with cancer who falls for a boy in her support group, who also has cancer. It's being put up against Tom Cruise's science fiction movie Edge of Tomorrow.

The Maze Runner is directed by Wes Ball from a screenplay by Dashner himself, and it stars Dylan O'Brien, Will Poulter, Kaya Scodelario, Aml Ameen, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Patricia Clarkson. It's now going up against the family sequel Dolphin Tale 2 and the football movie When the Game Stands Tall.

Fox have also decided to release another book adaptation, The Book Thief., starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson, one week earlier than planned, moving it to November 8 against Thor: the Dark World and the nationwide expansion of Richard Curtis' About Time.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=109817
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This is actually good news. I predicted that there will be a delay due to the fast production schedule. Hopefully this delay can breathe more room in it's completion!
 
Yep. I just moved my original post to the other thread instead.
 
Haha, I know. It's a bit confusing because it is the same article.
 
Will Poulter may be too old for Silver Chair. But atleast he's got a role in Maze Runner. :)

Too bad it was pushed back, though
 
I'm glad it's pushed back. With six movies slated for Valentine's Day, either 1-2 would move.

Mid-September is a good date in terms of playability and visibility.
 
Ultimatehero said:
Dude, I'm a writer who works with these people - I know. I should clarify not these people in particular, but the same types of people.

The Giver, you can group that in with it. That is clearly 100% studio driven.

Warm Bodies is beyond unjustly hooked into Twilight. It was an exact adaptation of the book. And I might be wrong - Ender's Game and Maze Runner seem to be very close adaptations as well. So they got the green light, but from there they are largely their own entities.

I'll give an example. I have a genre film that Universal is currently interested in acquiring. When I was writing this genre film, another genre film took off in pre-pro and now the idea of telling a film in this genre is a popular idea and notion. HOWEVER, no thought about that went into the making of it or trying to get it off the ground. BUT people will unjustly establish that connection. They will likely say that it is an attempt to copy the other film when I knew absolutely nothing about it when I was trying to get it off the ground. Just by luck, something similar took off granting me a much easier spring-board to selling it.

Different scenario, but still the same schematics. Or I can say the other film Universal is looking into came during the storm of another genre of films that is still going on, it came from the same initial start-up seeing that it could work. But, from there it had absolutely nothing else in common other than the initial spark. And saying that it does would be completely underselling it.

I just hate to see these creative people on numerous films are being written off like this.
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Everyone in Hollywood loves to come in second.
 
It made money so of course a sequel was made. I hate Animal movies and Dolphin Tale looked dreadful so of course I will never see it.
 
Will this really open on September 19th or will the film be pushed back again?
 
It will open on Sept 19th. The reason why it was pushed back was due to the rushed schedule. They barely had a year original to finish everything.
 
It looks promising and I think Wes Ball has a bright future ahead of him. This will be his ultimate test though.
 
September is a tough release date. It's not exactly blockbuster season.
 
Good to hear. Hope it's not just fans of the book that likes it
 
The author of the book said this:
They really captured my vision. Wes and this cast, they took the vision of my book and turned it into a magnificent film."


Very nice new trailer!
 
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