Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes Director Talks Lessons He's Applying To His Upcoming Zelda Movie
Coming off the success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie early last year, which was both popular with critics and made a huge amount of money, Nintendo felt so good about how they handled that one that they greenlit a Legend of Zelda movie, to be handled by Maze Runner Trilogy and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes director Wes Ball--it's still very early in that process, though, without even a planned release year at this point.
GameSpot had the chance to speak with Ball as part of his promotional efforts for his new Planet of the Apes movie, which lands in movie theaters on May 10. It didn't take too long for the Zelda movie to come up after I asked him about how working on his Maze Runner movies, which were heavy on CGI despite having relatively small budgets, helped prepare him for life on this even-more-CGI-heavy Planet of the Apes movie.
Ball immediately gave me some perspective on just how much of an escalation Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was for him.
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