The Maze Runner series has released its third film, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, and the movie is already a hit. The film premiered on January 26 and topped the box office for its opening frame, finally unseating Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle after that film spent three straight weekends in the number one slot. But even though The Death Cure is meant to serve as the final film in the Maze Runner series, the film's success out of the gate is leading some fans to speculate that the franchise could go on. So will there be another Maze Runner movie, or is this it for the Gladers?
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Currently, there are no known plans to continue the franchise with a fourth movie. The trailers for The Death Cure have teased the film as 'one last ride,' while the movie's official website states: 'In the epic finale to the Maze Runner saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet.' That type of language doesn't leave much wiggle room for the series to continue, and The Death Cure is indeed based on the final book of the same name in the original Maze Runner trilogy of novels. However, there was a time when a plan for a fourth film was almost expected.
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For a short while in Hollywood, there was a trend to split the final installment of a film series based on YA novels into two parts. This fad was kicked off when the producers behind one of the most successful series ever, Harry Potter, opted to split the final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, into two separate films in 2010 and 2011. This was immediately followed by the conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, which saw part one released in 2011 and part two hit theaters in 2012. Then there was The Hunger Games, with final installment Mockingjay: Part One being released in 2014 and Mockingjay: Part Two premiering the following year. By the time the Hunger Games was reaching its conclusion, a backlash against the trend was beginning to form, with fans complaining that a 'part one' of a climactic film barely counts as a film at all, since it purposely ends without a real climax. The backlash has been observed in recent movies backing out of the trend, like superhero films Avengers: Infinity War and Justice League, which were both originally going to be two-part films when they were first announced in 2014, but ultimately reduced themselves to solo movies. The most glaring example of split-movie fatigue can be seen in the final novel of the Divergent series, Allegiant, which was to be split into two films: Allegiant in 2016 and Ascendent in 2017. But by 2016, audiences had already tired of the split-movie trend and Allegiant bombed at the box office, leading to the cancelation of Ascendent. The final film may now be a TV movie, likely with a different cast, leaving fans without a proper conclusion to the franchise. When plans were first being formed for The Death Cure back in 2014, the split-movie trend had already reached its peak popularity, and Maze Runner director Wes Ball knew early on that he did not want to split up the last movie in his trilogy. 'I think three is the number; beginning, middle, end, that's it. Four? I think there's something off about four. For me, if I have any say in it, there's three movies basically,' Ball told Digital Spy at the time. 'We're not going to [split a book in two], no way. I think three movies is the right number, Star Wars!' The series' screenwriter, T.S. Nowlin, also stands firm against continuing the franchise, recently telling Thrillist's Sean Fitz-Gerald, 'We've actually talked about how much we don't want to do a fourth movie.It's rare to do something clean, that just has a beginning, a middle, and an end. I really like the way this movie wraps things up and ends. It's nice to let the movies kind of exhale.' So it looks like The Death Cure really is it for the Maze Runner franchise. Unless, of course, someone eventually decides to adapt the series' prequels into films.
Maze Runner is an American film trilogy consisting of science-fictiondystopianactionadventure films based on The Maze Runner novels by the American author James Dashner. Produced by Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the films star Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Ki Hong Lee, Dexter Darden and Patricia Clarkson. Wes Ball directed all three films. Listen & Download Arijit Singh Hawayein (Jab Harry Met Sejal) Mp3 Song From Category Hindi Single Arijit Singh New Song Hawayein (Jab Harry Met Sejal) Music composed by Pritam Lyrics Penned by Irshad Kamil Music Promote by Sony Music Entertainment Hawayein (Jab Harry Met Sejal) mp3 song was released on 26 Jul,2017. Listen to Pritam Hawayein MP3 song. Hawayein song from the album Jab Harry Met Sejal (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is released on Aug 2017. The duration of song is 04:49. Hawayein song download pagalworld. The first film, The Maze Runner, was released on September 19, 2014 and became a commercial success grossing over $348 million worldwide. The second film, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials was released on September 18, 2015, and was also a success, grossing over $312 million worldwide. The film series concluded with the release of the third film, Maze Runner: The Death Cure on January 26, 2018.
Films[edit]The Maze Runner (2014)[edit]The film features Thomas, who wakes up trapped in a maze with a group of other boys. He has no memory of the outside world other than dreams about an organization known as WCKD (World Catastrophe Killzone Department). Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his purpose and a way to escape.[1] Development for the film began in January 2011 when Fox purchased the film rights to Dashner's novel The Maze Runner.[2]Principal photography began in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 2013 and ended in July.[3][4] It was released on September 19, 2014.[5] Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)[edit]The film features Thomas and his fellow Gladers as they search for clues about the organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's 'vastly superior' forces and uncover its plans for them all.[6] Principal photography commenced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in October 2014 and ended in January 2015.[7][8] It was released on September 18, 2015.[9] Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)[edit]In the finale to the Maze Runner saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.[10] In March 2015, T.S. Nowlin, who co-wrote the first and wrote the second film, was hired to write Maze Runner: The Death Cure based on the novel The Death Cure.[11] In September 2015, Ball was hired to direct the film.[12] Ball said that the film would not be split into two films.[13] Principal photography took place in Cape Town, South Africa between March and June 2017 for a January 26, 2018 release.[14][15][16][17] Future[edit]Following the merger of The Walt Disney Company purchasing 21st Century Fox, at the 2019 CinemaCon future Maze Runner films were confirmed to be in development.[18] Piya o re piya. Cast and characters[edit]
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All Maze Runner films opened at number-one at the North American box-office during their opening weekend.[26][27][28] In North America, the Maze Runner film series is the fifth highest-grossing film series based on young adult books, after the film series of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, The Twilight Saga, and The Divergent Series respectively, earning $242 million.[29] Worldwide, it is the fourth highest-grossing film series based on young-adult books, after the film series of Harry Potter, The Twilight Saga, and The Hunger Games respectively, earning $949 million from a $157 million total production budget.[25] Critical and public response[edit]
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When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He's welcomed to his new home, the Glade, by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It's the only way out—and no one's ever made it through alive. Join Thomas and the Gladers in all five books in the Maze Runner series as they uncover the secrets of the maze; discover WICKED, the shadowy organization who put them there; and fight to survive in a new and dangerous world. Enter the World of the Maze Runner series and never stop running. The first and second books, The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, are now major motion pictures, with the third--The Death Cure—coming to theaters in 2018, and feature the star of MTV's Teen Wolf, Dylan O'Brien; Kaya Scodelario; Aml Ameen; Will Poulter; and Thomas Brodie-Sangster! Also look for James Dashner's newest bestselling series—The Mortality Doctrine: The Eye of Minds, The Rule of Thoughts, and The Game of Lives. Praise for the Maze Runner series: A #1 New York Times Bestselling Series A USA Today Bestseller A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of the Year An ALA-YASLA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book An ALA-YALSA Quick Pick '[A] mysterious survival saga that passionate fans describe as a fusion of Lord of the Flies, The Hunger Games, and Lost.'—EW.com “Wonderful action writing—fast-paced…but smart and well observed.”--Newsday “[A] nail-biting must-read.”--Seventeen.com “Breathless, cinematic action.”--Publishers Weekly “Heart pounding to the very last moment.”--Kirkus Reviews “Exclamation-worthy.”--Romantic Times
The Maze Runner Movies CounterThe Maze Runner is a series of young adultdystopianscience fiction novels written by American author James Dashner.[1][2] The series consists of The Maze Runner (2009), The Scorch Trials (2010) and The Death Cure (2011), as well as two prequel novels, The Kill Order (2012) and The Fever Code (2016), and a companion book titled The Maze Runner Files (2013).[1] The series, revealing details in non-chronological order, tells how the world was devastated by a series of massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
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The Maze Runner[edit]The Maze Runner is the first book in the series and was released on October 6, 2009. A number of teenagers, who call themselves 'The Gladers', are left in a strange place which they call 'The Glade'. Beyond the walls of the Glade is the ever-changing maze, with its horrifying creatures, the Grievers. Every month a newcomer, a 'greenie', joins the Gladers, sent by a lift with all past memories (except language and other common things) wiped out. The only thing that they really do remember is their name. They are watched by large mechanical beetles, called 'beetle blades' which belong to their 'creators'. The ultimate goal of The Gladers, is to find a way out of The Glade. To do so, the runners venture into the Maze every day, to map it in an attempt to find a pattern in the Maze that would lead them to find an exit. When Thomas, a curious newcomer, arrives at the Glade and ventures into the Maze, unusual things begin to happen.[citation needed] The Scorch Trials[edit]The Scorch Trials is the second book released in the series, on September 18, 2010.
The Death Cure[edit]The Death Cure is the third book released in the series, on October 11, 2011.
The Kill Order[edit]The Kill Order is the fourth book released in the series, on August 14, 2012. It is the first novel in narrative order, set prior to the events of The Fever Code and 13 years before the events in The Maze Runner.[3] It is followed in narrative order by The Fever Code. Of the novel, Dashner stated that he wanted to expand the world, but not focus on the main characters of the main Maze Runner trilogy.[4] He also stated that he had originally planned to write a prequel for the series, but that the plans did not become official until he had completed the third book in the trilogy.[5]
The Maze Runner Files[edit]The Maze Runner Files is a companion book to The Maze Runner series. It was released on 1 January 2013 as an e-book. It is 50 pages long. The book is divided into three parts: Confidential Files, Recovered Correspondence, and Suppressed Memories. It contains information about the Flare, WICKED and some of the Gladers. It also reveals events such as Thomas and Teresa's first conversation, Minho's Phase Three Trial, Frypan's past, e-mails between WICKED correspondents, and more. The Fever Code[edit]The Fever Code is the fifth book released in the series, on September 27, 2016. It is the second prequel and the fifth installment of The Maze Runner series. It is the second book in narrative order, preceded by The Kill Order and followed by The Maze Runner. Eminem show torrent. Nice Guy (feat. Jessie Reyez) 12. Good Guy (feat. Royce da 5’9″) 09. The book is set in between the events of The Kill Order and immediately before The Maze Runner. The novel is written from the various points of view of 'The Gladers'. The book primarily focuses on the training that Thomas and the others undergo before being sent into the Maze, however, it also explores the relationships between the Gladers before they underwent 'the Swipe' that suppressed their memories, describes 'the Purge' that is briefly mentioned in The Death Cure, and the lives of the Gladers before Thomas' insertion into the Maze, since during the events in the book he is working for WICKED. This book gives a background of the series, providing the reader with information they have been asking themselves. The book ends with the final moments before Thomas enters the Box, when he is betrayed and sent into the Maze at the beginning of The Maze Runner. Characters[edit]
Critical reception[edit]Book retailer Barnes & Noble included The Maze Runner book as part of its showcasing of new writers for the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010. Kirkus Reviews wrote, 'Hard to put down, this is clearly just a first installment, and it will leave readers dying to find out what comes next'. Jessica Harrison of the Deseret Morning News labeled The Maze Runner as 'a thrilling adventurous book for kids ages 13+ that will get readers' hearts pumping and leave them asking for more.' She noted that it 'starts out a bit slow' but as it matched Thomas's confusion and picked up pace as he became more accustomed, she wrote that 'it's almost as if Dashner is easing the reader into what becomes a fast-paced, nonstop action.' However, she thought the 'only drawback' was the 'fictionalized slang' that although it 'feels realistic and fits with his characters, it gets old pretty fast. On the plus side, however, it's used so often that the reader almost becomes desensitized and learns to ignore it. Film adaptations[edit]
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Major spoilers from the Maze Runner franchise follow. Thomas has nowhere left to run. Ever since the first Maze Runner movie premiered in 2014, that's basically all Dylan O'Brien's character has done. (It's in the name, after all.) But Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the latest installment in the popular books-turned-movies franchise, turns the young hero around and sends him straight to his enemies' doorstep. Like its predecessors, the movie is relentlessly ambitious, both in story and visuals, and while it's at times exhausting, it's a burst of undeniable fun that brings Hollywood's current Y.A. powerhouse to an end. A definitive end, according to series screenwriter T.S. Nowlin, even with the changes made to the ending of the original trilogy. The Death Cure picks up in the middle of a train heist. The objective: free Minho (Ki Hong Lee), who was captured along with other Immunes by the radical org WCKD, at the end of 2015's Scorch Trials. Gone are the scrappy rebels we saw in the first two movies. Here, Thomas (O'Brien), Brenda (Rosa Salazar), and the gang look like a competent tactical unit. The opening scene, like much of the movie, thrums with the kind of anxious energy that makes you feel like you’re watching Mad Max:Fury Road Jr. Unfortunately, the nail-biter of an opener is only a partial success, with many Immunes freed but MVP Minho ultimately left on the train. That means Thomas needs to infiltrate the so-called 'Last City,' to save his friend and finally stop his longtime foes Ava Paige (Patricia Clarkson) and Rat Man Janson (Game of Thrones' Aidan Gillen). The 5 Most-Plausible Endings for Your Favorite 'Game of Thrones' CharactersHe does, to be sure, but only after a marathon of action: a showdown with those nasty zombie-like Cranks in a tortuous tunnel, a peaceful protest-turned-explosive nightmare, a jailbreak gone horribly awry, a race to escape the inferno that becomes the Last City. These trials, as they always have, double as life lessons for Thomas and his love interest Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), and although the movies have sometimes felt like all of Hollywood stuffed into a blender (wastelands, zombies, firefights, oh my!), the story has always been a coming-of-age journey at heart. If Maze Runner's first entry was about Thomas carving out his identity as a leader, and the second about learning how to lead, this third, once again directed by Wes Ball, is his chance to finally make a stand and lead. Fans of James Dashner's books will recognize how this fight has to end: Thomas confronting Janson, the true villain, whose interests were never about curing the disease that wiped out large swaths of humanity but about sustaining his own life. Of course, just as moviegoers noticed creative liberties taken in the second movie, they'll see more here: the nature of Teresa's betrayal, for one, changes. Same with her death. They still happen, just differently, all in the name of making these key moments more satisfying. Many work. Perhaps one of the more contentious divergences from the source material will be the one that comes at the very end of the movie, when Thomas and his friends reach a safe haven. In the book, Ava Paige takes credit for this 'Paradise' in a final memorandum. 'And so, we have failed. But we have also succeeded,' she writes. 'If all has gone according to plan, we have sent the brightest, the strongest, the toughest of our subjects to a safe place, where they can begin civilization anew while the rest of the world is driven to extinction.' The Flare virus that loomed over the series is revealed to have been a well-intended plan to pare down the planet's population. The results were disastrous and unpredictable. 'I don't know how history will judge the actions of WICKED, but I state here for the record that the organization only ever had one goal,' she adds, 'to preserve the human race.' After Thomas vanquishes Janson on the big screen and escapes the Last City, he wakes in a similar Paradise. Unlike the book, there’s no epilogue or post-credits scene to explain WCKD's Plan B. Why not? It's a move that adds a sort of exclamation point to Thomas' victory. 'The difference is freedom and ownership and agency,' Nowlin tells me a few days after I've seen the movie. 'We didn't want [the safe haven] to be Ava Paige's Plan B.' Much of what happens in the books, it turns out, has been mapped out, predetermined, and fail-safed by WCKD, but not so in the movies. The safe haven is a life that Thomas and the other survivors have made for themselves. With a vial of his blood, the cure to this series' longtime disease, in hand, they have an opportunity to seek out and save others. Nowlin wants fans to debate what happens next, but he promises there's no Maze Runner 4. Even amid an industry trend that's seeing popular sagas disregard limited source material in the name of professional fan fiction (13 Reasons Why, Big Little Lies), the forces behind this franchise seem keen on honoring the shape of the trilogy. 'We've actually talked about how much we don't want to do a fourth movie,' he quips, presenting a vision of a post-apocalyptic wasteland in which the only surviving relic is a marquee advertising Star Wars: Episode XXXII. 'It's rare to do something clean, that just has a beginning, a middle, and an end. I really like the way this movie wraps things up and ends. It's nice to let the movies kind of exhale.' That's not to say there's no more Maze Runner material to adapt for the big screen. Though the main story is done, author James Dashner has said he would love for someone to tackle the prequels (The Kill Order and The Fever Code).Depending on how well The Death Cure finishes at the box office, it wouldn't be surprising to see those greenlit. But given the different timelines, those projects would entail a different cast, and likely, a different creative team. Ball and Nowlin each have individual projects in the works -- the former producing genre titles with his company OddBall Entertainment and the latter in the writers' room for Godzilla vs. Kong. Not to mention they've long wanted to turn Ball's popular short, 'Ruin' (embedded above), which effectively earned him the keys to the Maze Runner saga, into a feature film or comic book series. The idea, another descent into high-octane dystopic mayhem, was snagged by Fox and has been percolating for almost a decade between Maze Runner drafts. Finally taking it to the big screen would be a dream come true, for finishing The Death Cure was 'like graduating college,' Nowlin says. 'It's sad to say goodbye, but it's not an option to enroll in another class.' Sign up here for our daily Thrillist email and subscribe here for our YouTube channel to get your fix of the best in food/drink/fun. Comments are closed.
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