![]() ![]() He must break into the super-secure WKCD headquarters and try to bring down the organization from the inside. In order to free those who have been rounded up as test subjects, including his friend Minho, Thomas must now band together with fellow survivors, old and new, and take the battle to what may be the last remaining city and the final stronghold of WCKD. But the cure comes by sacrificing the few young people left in the world who are apparently immune. Ava Paige, WCKD’s executive director is close to what she believes is a cure for the disease known as The Flare, an infection that has decimated the world’s population. Thomas, who had become the presumptive leader of the group, didn’t trust the message he was hearing that “WCKD is good.” Breaking free from the compound where they’d been housed after being “rescued” Thomas led the survivors of the original maze and others he had encountered in the new facility out into “the scorch”, a desert wasteland that appeared to be all that was left of the world.Īction reaches new heights in this mission-oriented third and final segment of The Maze Runner Series, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, where the motives of WCKD become clearer: Dr. There were in fact other mazes, other survivors and they were to learn of the organization that had selected them, WCKD. ![]() In Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials the “gladers”, as they were now known, discovered that once out of the maze they were not the only participants forced to endure tests. The second book, The Scorch Trials, was published in 2010 and sold more than three million copies, and the film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials answered many of the questions posed in the first film. The way out led them to the truth: they were members in an immense and cruel test. When Thomas showed up and, shortly after, the glade’s first girl inhabitant Teresa, everything began to change. They were a colony of young men with a singular goal escape the glade by solving the maze. In the original Maze Runner the involuntary inhabitants of the mysterious encampment knows as The Glade were surrounded by an ever-changing maze with 200 foot walls. I wanted my readers, and now the moviegoing audience, to feel like Thomas when they enter the Glade.” Reflecting on the story’s appeal, Dashner notes that much of it stems from the “constant state of not being able to predict what’s going to happen next. Published in October 2009, James Dashner’s novel The Maze Runner was the first in the best-selling post-apocalyptic YA book series, and became a New York Times Best Seller that captured the imaginations of readers around the world, who described it as a combination of Lord of the Flies, The Hunger Games, and the legendary television series Lost, and broke box-office records when it exploded on the big screen. The books’ legions of fans embraced The Maze Runner, which grossed more than $340 million worldwide. Maze Runner: The Death Cure is a culmination of all three books and brings it all together. ![]()
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