Black Nativity Star Jacob Latimore Joins The Maze Runner

Steve Barton   |  

May 2, 2013

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More casting news has come in for the big screen adaptation of James Dashner’s The Maze Runner as young Jacob Latimore has signed up for a role in the flick which finds teenagers wading through a maze for their very lives!

Latimore (pictured) will join the previously announced Dylan O’Brien (“Teen Wolf”), Will Poulter, Kaya Scodelario, Aml Ameen, Blake Cooper, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Filming begins this month in Baton Rouge for a February 14, 2014, release. Gotham Group is producing The Maze Runner with 20th Century Fox. Noah Oppenheim and James Dashner (author of the novel) wrote the script. Wes Ball directs.

Look for more on this flick soon!

Here’s the book’s synopsis:

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.

Thomas was expected. But the next day a girl is sent up—the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers.

Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.

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