【Moving Maze】 Stills (Image source: Fox)
Following the popularity of films adapted from best-selling teen fantasy novels such as "The Hunger Games" and "Divergents", another "Moving Maze" adapted from the super-best-selling teen thriller fantasy novel in the United States will also be put on the big screen, the original novel by the American science fiction novelist James Dashner (James Dashner), a trilogy launched in a row and accumulated many fans, the first part of the film "Moving Maze" adaptation series of novels, by the visual effects of the creative ghost - Wes ., Ball) as a director, the story uses the apocalyptic world as a background, depicting a group of teenagers thrown into an isolated maze by a mysterious institution, they must find a way to escape a murderous giant maze, the wonderful and compact story made the director Wesper's first attempt to cry a blockbuster, recently invited anime fans to participate in the audition at the American Comic-Con (comic-con) to get unprecedented responses, the director is more excited to say that the crew has been working intensively to prepare for the sequel, hoping that the first part of the release will have a good box office performance The latest trailer for the Chinese edition was launched today (8/1), and the United States also released a new movie poster, presenting the main characters including potential rising star "Young Wolf" Dillon O'Brien, "Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" Thomas Sangster and [Narnia Legend] Wilpert and others escaping from the maze, the giant maze in the background makes people eager to see the fantasy maze world created by visual ghosts! Taiwan also advanced the release schedule, preemptively preceding the United States and officially releasing on September 12.
[Moving Labyrinth] invited james Dashner, the original author of the novel, to personally participate in the screenwriting, and he recently watched the film and said with great excitement: "The crew has made my novel into a stunning masterpiece!" I was very shocked and moved to see it!" And the director who successfully created this film, Wesper, directed a feature-length film for the first time, he himself was a visual effects worker and had a visual effects company oddball animation, and then resolutely decided to close his studio, and spent eight months to produce an 8-minute animated short film [ruin], which made the industry stunned when it was launched, and thus achieved the director of "Moving Maze", which also made Wesper excited, and it was a dream come true!
When Wesper, who is good at creating a story environment with visual effects, began to think about the content of the visual presentation when he first got the "Moving Labyrinth", after reading the novel, he created a vision similar to the classic 90s thriller fantasy movie "The Lord of the Flies", a child standing in front of a huge wall with a spear in hand, and the director said: "When this idea was presented with visual images, I immediately knew that this was the movie I wanted to make, and everything began to think." And such a proposal also made Fox Film agree, and let Wesper smoothly get the opportunity to direct the film.
Moving Maze Official poster (Image: Fox)
As a child, Wisper, who had been a boy scout, was most interested in the labyrinth described in "Moving The Labyrinth", which was a clearing at the center of the maze, and all the people who were sent to the maze lived in this open space and were surrounded by the labyrinth around them, and these children had to establish their own world and order, which reminded him of childhood, he said: "When I lived in the suburbs when I was a child, I would build small bunkers and tree houses and so on, as if it were my own world, I think this is very interesting!" 」 The director said that this episode will let everyone see a very shocking maze, but the most important thing is to impress everyone with the characters in the show, and he revealed that there will be no maze in the sequel, but these characters will make the audience fall in love with them and look forward to the next episode. 【Moving Maze】Taiwan will be released first on September 12!
(Source: FOSS)
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