In conversation with director Wes Ball - Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes and more

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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With his new film, Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes, now out in cinemas, director Wes Ball joins the Film Stories podcast for a long chat about the new film, and his career to date. From his early shorts, to his fast work on Celebrity Apprentice (and boy, is there a story there), we then move through to The Maze Runner, The Mouse Guard, and right the way through to Apes... --- EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/filmstories Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.8	always really hard to pronounce and they're terrible to have to write down, Kingdom of the
0:37.4	Planet of the Apes. And I'm delighted to be joined for a film story podcast
0:41.2	special in a posh London hotel in which someone appears to be sitting in the corner of the room.
0:46.6	Making sure we don't screw up.
0:48.0	I'm sure we don't mess this up. By Wes Ball. Hello, Wes Ball. Hello.
0:52.2	How are you? First of all? Good.
0:55.0	This must be quite surreal.
0:56.0	We're talking about making a planet of the eight film.
0:58.0	By my reckoning, I think only eight directors have, you're the eighth director.
1:02.0	Am I eight?
1:04.0	Yeah, okay.
1:05.0	Yeah, there's been ten altogether.
1:07.0	Yeah.
1:08.0	1968 was the very first one.
1:10.0	Yeah. And yeah, it's, I grew up on watching that movie.
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