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Tweets Lead Blake Cooper To ‘Maze Runner’ Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 23, 2013 @ 3:39pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Blake Cooper, The Maze Runner, Wes Ball
Mike Fleming

Maybe it’s appropriate that director Wes Ball just tweeted that Blake Cooper got the pivotal role of Chuck in The Maze Runner. Cooper got Ball’s attention with a flurry of tweets to the director, basically saying “I’m your Chuck!” Ball finally connected the young actor with Fox’s casting director Denise Chamian, who allowed Cooper to send in a self-taped audition for the role. It got him the job. 20th Century Fox‘s Hunger Games-esque Maze Runner will star Cooper, Dylan O’Brien (Teen Wolf), Will Poulter, Kaya Scodelario, Aml Ameen, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster, with filming to begin in May in Baton Rouge for a February 14, 2014 release. Pic is based on James Dashner’s novel trilogy about a group of teens who wake up in a maze with no memory of how they got there. Script is by Noah Oppenheim, rewritten by Grant Myers and T.S. Nowlin.

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Will Poulter Circling ‘Maze Runner’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 5, 2013 @ 8:02am PSTTags: Fox, The Maze Runner, Wes Ball, Will Poulter
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Will Poulter has been offered one of the leads in Maze Runner, the Wes Ball-directed adaptation of the James Dashner novel. Poulter, whose breakout came in Son of Rambow, most recently starred in The Chronicles of Narnia and will … Read More »

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