The word Ouroboran was also used to describe those who live, die, and are reborn to relive their lives again. He can also choose to fall in love with the same person as a previous life or move on to someone new.įinally, during one of his lives, he learns that there are others like himself who call themselves the Kalachakra which I believe was Buddhist terminology for the wheel of time. For example, throughout his lives, Harry has lived in an amazing variety of places such as England, Russia, China, and the United States. So in this way, he does have free will to live whatever kind of life he wants, to go in whatever direction he wants. What’s interesting though, is that he doesn’t live the exact same life and he can choose to do whatever he wants during his lifetime, whether it be teaching at a university, becoming a scientist, a lawyer, a doctor, or a physicist, living in Russia - whatever he wants to do. It’s also worth mentioning is that Harry is extraordinarily gifted in that he was a mnemonic, meaning he remembers every single detail from each of his lives. Think of the movie “Groundhog Day” except for an entire lifetime.

Once he reaches the age of 6 or 7, all of his memories return, complete with all of the knowledge he’s amassed in his previous lives.

But it’s the same life, and he always returns to exactly where he began: as his mother gave birth to him in the ladies restroom. But it seems WME, which recently signed Ball to their Oddball Entertainment label, is still working to get the filmmaker jobs - they're also coordinating the early stages of Ball's Planet of the Apes reboot.The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August follows our main character Harry August who lives his life, over and over and over. However, his passion project, a $170 million animated feature film adaptation of the beloved comic book series Mouse Guard, fell through in the wake of the Disney-Fox merger.

The YA dystopian franchise put Ball on the map, and he was soon courted by Disney and 20th Century Studios to reboot the Planet of the Apes franchise. Melissa Iqbal ( Humans, The Nevers) is adapting the novel for the big screen.īall has found great success directing all three Maze Runner films, which grossed almost $949 million worldwide. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was nominated for the Arthur C. The film is based on the sci-fi novel by Claire North, which won the John W. Deadline reports that Wes Ball is set to direct The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, a sci-fi story about a man 'who is repeatedly born into the same life, remembers all his past experiences, and seeks to save the world by outmaneuvering a similarly gifted rival who's willing to make any sacrifice to attain a godlike knowledge.'

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