MAZE RUNNER Director Wes Ball To Helm The Sci-Fi Film THE FIRST FIFTEEN LIVES OF HARRY AUGUST
Maze Runner franchise director Wes Ball is set to direct a new sci-fi film for Amblin titled The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, which is based on the book by Claire North. The novel won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was also nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August follows “a man who is repeatedly born into the same life, remembers all his past experiences, and seeks to save the world by outmaneuvering a similarly gifted rival who’s willing to make any sacrifice to attain a godlike knowledge.“
Melissa Iqbal (Humans, The Nevers) wrote the script and it sounds like a fascinating story! I wasn’t familiar with it until today, but I like the concept!
The film will be produced by Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent (Emma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) of Blueprint Pictures, along with Joe Hartwick Jr (Jumper, The Maze Runner) of Oddball Entertainment.
Here’s a description of the story from the book:
Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. "I nearly missed you, Doctor August," she says. "I need to send a message." This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.
Does this sound like a film you’d be interested in watching?
Source: Deadline