Movies. [10], Creature designer Ken Barthelmey designed the Grievers for the film.[11]. People start acting strangely, the sun disappears, the weekly deliveries of supplies stop coming, and the doors of the Maze stay open at night, which allows the Grievers to enter the Glade and to hunt the teens. Acting under mind control, he moves to shoot a gun at Thomas, but a young Glader, Chuck, jumps to save him. When Thomas comes to visit her, he recognizes her but cannot remember her name until he hears her voice telepathically in his mind that tells him her name. The film is the first installment in The Maze Runner film series and was produced by Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, and Lee Stollman with a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers, and T.S. In an interview with Collider, director Wes Ball stated he had made a 3D computer-animated science fiction post-apocalyptic short film, titled Ruin, which he intended to use in order to gain access to Hollywood. [17], Prior to its release in the U.S. and Canada, box office analysts predicted the film would be a box office success, citing effective marketing, good word-of-mouth publicity and a solid release date. [42] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale. The first-ever girl arrives in the elevator, with a note saying that she is the last one to enter the Glade. 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), a novella titled Crank Palace (2020), and a companion book titled The Maze Runner Files (2013). While Thomas mourns over Chuck, masked armed men then rush in and take the rest of the group to a helicopter. Thomas then reveals himself and Teresa and confesses that they worked with WCKD and studied the boys for years. [59] Time magazine's Richard Corliss said "like Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit-tentialism, but more crowded and with the musk of bottled-up testosterone". In "The Maze Runner", only a few of the Gladers (Thomas, Teresa, Newt, Minho) successfully escaped from the simulation, and these people possessed courage and attributes of leadership. [68] The sequel was released on September 18, 2015. After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate 2", "Review: 'The Maze Runner' perks up tired YA action formula", "Not Knowing Anything About The Maze Runner Isn't a Bad Way to See It", "Review: The Hunger Games Meets Lord of the Flies in The Maze Runner", "Small(er) Movie Roundup: Now Big Enough to Include America's YA Movie Flavor of the Week! [18][19][20][21] According to movie ticket sale website Fandango, The Maze Runner was the biggest seller accounting for more than 50% of early tickets sales. A saga Maze Runner chegou aos cinemas em 2014, num momento em que estavam na moda filmes baseados em franquias literárias adolescentes sobre distopias futuras. [31], Outside North America, the film debuted in five countries a week prior to its North American release and earned a total of $8.3 million. Film di fantascienza ambientato in un futuro distopico, è l'adattamento cinematografico del romanzo Il labirinto (2009), scritto da James Dashner. So finally Fox says 'We just did this movie, The Internship. A second sequel, Maze Runner: The Death Cure was released on January 26, 2018. The Gladers decide to make a run for the exit since they know that taking on the Grievers is a suicide mission, but nothing is worse than their current fate. And that's one special effect that very few YA movies ever pull off". He only remembers his name. 3", "Young-Adult Book Adaptations (Opening Weekends)", "Dracula Untold grossed $33.9m from 42 territories as the early tally climbed to $62.6m. It is recommended the you start with the main books The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, and The Death Cure first, with "Thomas’s First Memory of the Flare" sitting between books two and three. [9] Ki Hong Lee as Minho, Blake Cooper, Will Poulter and Aml Ameen were added to the cast as Chuck, Gally and Alby, respectively. However, she thought the "only drawback" was the "fictionalized slang", saying, "While it feels realistic and fits with his characters, it gets old pretty fast. Those living in the Release date of 19 September 2014 #dashnerchat", Children and Young Adult Literature portal, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Maze_Runner&oldid=1003753328, Science fiction novels adapted into films, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 January 2021, at 14:27. [63], On October 11, 2013, it was reported that Twentieth Century Fox had acquired the rights to the second book, The Scorch Trials. The elevator box surfaces from under the ground once every week and supplies new food, tools, medicine, and sometimes weapons. The homage was noted by source book author Dashner on Twitter. Critics considered it to be better than most young adult book-to-film adaptations. It flies over a vast desert wasteland and approaches a ruined city. The film topped the box-office during its opening weekend with a $32.5 million debut, making it the seventh-highest grossing debut in September. Thomas, unable to leave Alby to die, uses the vines on the walls to pull him up and out of the view of the Grievers, attracts their attention, and evades them. The boys unknowingly have been test subjects for an experiment. Minho sees Thomas's evasion tactic and uses it to send the four Grievers by chasing them over the Cliff. Thomas proposes that the walls of the Maze are not random, but that their movements are actually a code, which leads to the discovery that the Maze is spelling out words. 3", "Box Office: 'Maze Runner' Sprints To $11.25M Friday, $30M+ Weekend", "Box Office: 'Maze Runner' Outpaces Liam Neeson on Way to $31 Million Debut", "Friday Report: 'Maze Runner' Quick Out of the Gate", "Does 'The Maze Runner' Mark The Beginning Of The End Of The YA Movie Craze? [4] Creature designer Ken Barthelmey designed the monsters called Grievers for the film. Unconscious, he recalls that he and Teresa worked for the organization that created the Maze, WCKD. Known as the Grievers, they are described as amorphous monsters of metal and flesh. 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." Written by James Dashner, the bestselling Maze Runner series is a set of young adult sci-fi books that follow a group of teens who attempt to find their way out of a … Maze Runner Film Series by MustakimFaiazPrime | created - 08 Aug 2017 | updated - 08 Aug 2017 | Public Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc Fighting Grievers as they go, Jeff and several other Gladers are killed. Outside the walls is the Maze, a labyrinth of high concrete walls covered in ivy that changes every day. Teresa wakes up and tells Thomas that they knew each other before they were sent into the Glade, which reveals that they could communicate telepathically. He had Teen Wolf hair and I couldn't see past that and so we were looking for our Thomas and it's a tough role to make, because he comes in as a boy and he leaves as a man, so it can't be like this badass action star that comes into this movie.