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Owen Teague has landed a lead role in the upcoming Planet of the Apes movie.

EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that Maze Runner franchise filmmaker Wes Ball is attached to direct Paramount Pictures’ adaptation of Valiant Comic’s Harbinger, which remains in development at the studio.

While Matt Reeves was able to finish his ‘Apes’ story with 2017’s “War for the Planet of the Apes,” it appears that Disney isn’t ready to let the franchise gather dust. The studio has already announced that filmmaker Wes Ball has been brought on to work on a new sequel to the previous trilogy, but we still don’t know too much about the plot of the film, nor how it will fit with the other films.

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Wes Ball, the filmmaker behind the hit YA postapocalyptic thriller trilogyThe Maze Runner, has signed with WME.Ball had previously been represented by Paradigm.Ball is coming over with his producing partner Joe Hartwick Jr. and their company Oddball Entertainment.Ball caught the town’s attention with his stylish sci-fi short Ruin, which landed him the gig to adapt Maze Runner.