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‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Director Wes Ball on Trilogy Plans and Making ‘Legend of Zelda’: It’s ‘Dying for a Cinematic Treatment’
‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ director Wes Ball talks new trilogy and his 'Legend of Zelda' movie
Ball also discussed his “Legend of Zelda” video game adaptation and how he’ll juggle that movie plus the two “Apes” sequels that distributor 20th Century Studios has already outlined. Wes, you developed a good relationship with Fox because of the “Maze Runner” movies, but your follow-up with them, “Mouse Guard,” was canceled right before it was set to begin shooting. As I was licking my wounds, Emma [Watts] called and was like, “Sorry, but what would you do with the next ‘Planet of the Apes’?” And I was working with Matt Reeves on [“Mouse Guard”] as producer, and I cast Andy Serkis and I was learning all this mo-cap stuff.
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