![]() ![]() Last year, director Wes Ball’s cinematic adaptation of The Maze Runnerwas a surprise hit at the box office and there’s still more to come from The Maze Runner series. GOOFSġ Their escape from the underground facility looks too convenient and contrived.Ģ What experiment was executed on the immunes is never elucidated well in the film.An overview of James Dashner’s hit Maze Runner series ahead of the new film, The Scorch Trials! The novel also featured other characters such as Aris (Aristotle) and Harriet (Harriet Tubman). Author James Dashner has said that Minho is not named after anyone famous but his nieces' Korean husband. Many of the characters' names are taken from historical figures and most are from inventors, mathematicians, philosophers, or scientists to illustrate their intelligence (which was a major plot element in the novel): Thomas (Thomas Edison), Alby (Albert Einstein), Newt (Isaac Newton), Chuck (Charles Darwin), Gally (Galileo), Teresa (Mother Teresa), Winston (Winston Churchill), Ben (Benjamin Franklin) and Frypan, in the novel also called Siggy (Sigmund Freud). He would show his kids the auditions and get their feedback. Producer Wyck Godfrey had his 3 boys offer casting advice. standing for World In Catastrophe, Killzone Experiment Department. W.C.K.D is pronounced as wicked, because in the book the acronym was W.I.C.K.E.D. Three actors from the film a part of Game Of Thrones (2011).ĭirector, Wes Ball originally pitched The Maze Runner as 'Lord of the Flies meets Lost'. Scheduling issues hindered Adelaide Kane from playing Brenda's role. The film's third installment will be called Death Cure. The film is very different from the book. As the film ends, Thomas swears to infiltrate WKCD to rescue his friend. ![]() Thomas with the Right Arm is successful in fending off WCKD, Ava, Janson and Teresa leave with the immunes they captured. Teresa calls WCKD, who ambush the place with Janson and Ava confront them and the survivors are taken in custody for experimental purposes. We learn that an immune body can only harvest the enzyme. She is given an enzyme shot which settle her infection. Brenda, who contracts the virus from a Crank, and the Right Arm contemplate on whether she should be shot. The group finally separate only to meet again at the location of Right Arm, where they find other innocent survivors as well. Janson and his army attacks the place just as the couple were planning to escape and George's explosives destroy the place. After surviving a grave thunderstorm, they reach the place and are welcomed by cranks whom the owners of the place keep as watchdogs.Welcomed not-so-pleasantly by Brenda and George, the group is initially kept chained. After the group moves ahead in the desert, they find lights close by. Winston gets infected after being attacked by a flare-virus-infected zombie and finally kills himself instead of becoming a crank himself. The group keep finding cranks everywhere they go. Thomas and his gang escape and Janson's team are entrusted with the responsibility of finding them in the scorch. The two discuss about the experiment on immunes and also about finding the resistance group that lives in the mountains. We are told that the WCKD leader Eva is still alive and Janson works with her. Survivors from many other maze live their together.īut Thomas suspects something fishy and with the help of a guy from another maze, he discovers what happens behind the close doors. The place protects them from the virus, Cracnks, WCKD, providing them food and shelter. Years later, after being rescued from the maze trials, he along with Newt, Minho, Teresa, Frypan and Winston are taken into a safe haven run by Mr Janson. The film begins with a dream sequence of a young Thomas being taken in by WCKD. ![]()
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