Wes Ball Will Follow ‘The Maze Runner’ Films With Norse Mythology Story ‘Fall Of Gods’
20th Century Fox hiredWes Ballto directThe Maze Runner, and that film did well, with Ball rolling straight into making the sequel to that film,The Scorch Trials. Fox evidently wants to keep Ball around, and has just set him to directFall of the Gods, an adventure story based in Norse mythology that first had life as an illustrated fantasy book backed by asuccessful Kickstarter campaign.
THRreports that the “epic Norse fantasy” has producers in Ball,Steve Tzirlin(Star Wars: The Clone Wars), andJoe HartwickJr.
This tale, in story form, came fromRasmus Berggreen, a concept designer and co-founder of the visual development studio MOOD in Copenhagen Denmark. Berggreen has experience doing film and games concept art, and he started the studio with a collection of other artists.
Fall of Gods, written byMichael Vogt, is described on the book’s Kickstarter page:
Fall of Gods is all about love for Norse heritage. It’s made with a desire to reinvent the mythology and come up with a new and exiting story that captures the essence of the brutal world within the old north. It unfolds in a fantastic universe inspired by Scandinavian nature, with an epic scale and inherent drama. The book will be anchored by detailed illustrations like the ones you see on this page.
Fox has only recently picked up the film rights to the story. At this point no screenwriter is announced. The concept art released with the Kickstarter campaign was very impressive, and given Ball’s increasing success with theMaze Runnerfilms I’m really intrigued by the idea of the project.
The story as recounted above seems pretty basic, with the promise of the visual depiction of mythological Norse elements being a big part of the draw. If there’s eventually a script that matches the visual concepts, this could be a terrific project.
