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Will Poulter is an English actor, born in London in 1993. During high school he appears in School of Comedy, which debuts at the Edinburgh Festival. The show is picked up by Channel 4 and runs for two season. He has also appeared in the films, Son of Rambow, The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of The Dawn Treader, We’re the Millers, and The Maze Runner.

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Oct 2014

Filming in Canada

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The Revenant is due to begin filming in Alberta and British Columbia. Industry source:

It’s anticipated a shooting schedule in the October to March range. Eighty days of shooting.

Sep 2014

The Maze Runner

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Poulter plays the character Gally in the Wes Ball-directed adaptation of the Thomas Dashner sci-fi thriller. In a mysterious clearing known as The Glade, a group of boys awake with no memory of who they are or how they got there. Gally clashes with their emerging leader, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), as the boys try to find their way out of the Maze that keeps them prisoner. Co-starring Aml Ameen and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

I think one of the things we really wanted to emphasize about what [author James Dashner] writes about in his books is that no one is innately bad. … Gally feels almost too villainous in the book, I think, and we just tried to make him a little more justified and rational than perhaps he is in the book. I threw out this idea that he’s just scared, that this tough guy act is just an exterior he wears to kind of mask the truth of the situation, which is that he’s a bit of a coward even if he’d never admit that.

The Maze Runner | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX

18 Sep, 2014

Clashes with critic

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Poulter clashes with Toronto-based critic Andrew Parker on Twitter about a review Parker wrote for Dork Shelf.

I considered walking out of The Maze Runner. It would have been only the second film I ever walked out of in a theatre in 18 years doing this job

11 Jul, 2014

Glassland

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Poulter stars as Shane in the drama directed by Gerard Barrett. Shane’s friend John, a young Dublin taxi driver, tries to save his mother from alcohol addiction. Co-starring Jack Reynor and Toni Collette.

Jack Reynor is scarily talented and Gerard Barrett is a genius.

17 May, 2014

Cast in The Yellow Birds

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Poulter is cast in David Lowery’s adaptation of the novel by Kevin Powers. Lowery:

It is about characters who find themselves caught up in war but who struggle to not let it define them.

2 May, 2014

Plastic

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Poulter plays university student Fordy in the crime comedy directed by Julian Gilbey. Fordy and his friends run a successful credit card scam until they rip off the wrong person, and plan a diamond heist to pay their debts. Co-starring Alfie Allen and Ed Speleers.

This is not a biopic by any means, but these are students who ran off with a 2 million pound heist, that happened, that’s a real thing, and it’s kind of exciting to depict.

Plastic - Official Trailer (2014) feat. Sebastian De Souza, Ed Speleers, Will Poulter

Apr 2014

Fall 2015 release

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The Revenant is due to begin shooting in September for a release in fall 2015.

19 Mar, 2014

Best Musical Moment nomination

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Poulter confirms his nomination for the Waterfalls scene in We’re The Millers.

16 Dec, 2013

Cast in Glassland

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Poulter confirms he has joined the film:

14 Sep, 2013

Kids In Love wraps

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Poulter confirms filming is completed.