Maze Runner: The Death Cure will arrive almost a year later than planned as star Dylan O'Brien continues to recover from on-set injuries. Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) In the epic finale to The Maze Runner Saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. Jan 18, 2018 Maze Runner: The Death Cure Bloopers & Behind the Scenes 2018. Dec 08, 2017 Official Maze Runner: The Death Cure Movie Trailer 2 2018| Subscribe| Dylan O'Brien. Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) The time of reckoning has come. There’s no sugar coating it. The past few years haven’t been kind to good ol’ YA adaptations, chiefly those of the dystopian variety. After The Hunger Games became a global moneymaking machine — the series propelling its lead Jennifer Lawrence into superstardom — the search for the ‘next big phenomenon’ was on, studios looking for their own slice of the lucrative pie. The Host (2013), which is currently sitting at an abysmal 9% on Rotten Tomatoes, failed to ‘catch fire,’ whilst Ender’s Game (2013) copped a ‘Game Over’ almost right away. The 5th Wave (2016) sunk at the box office, and although Shailene Woodley’s Divergent saga had a solid start, it never crossed the finish line, due to harebrained executives who thought it was a good idea to split the last book into two movies, precisely when enthusiasm for all things YA began to dwindle. Nice one, guys! The Maze Runner series, however, is a bit of an anomaly. Based on James Dashner’s bestselling young adult novels, the property has somehow managed to survive, despite being a big, fat mishmash of ideas we’ve seen before. The first chapter, (2014), introduced our hero Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), when he wakes with amnesia, imprisoned in a community of boys trapped inside a labyrinth known as The Glade. Teaming up with his detainees (aka the Gladers), Thomas fights Erector-Set-looking monsters called Grievers and escapes the concrete puzzle, only to discover that the outside world isn’t much better. ‘We’re gonna need some Gladerade ’ The second film, (2015), follows the kids as they’re forced to navigate a desolate landscape, the earth having been destroyed by a global pandemic called The Flare, a virus that turns infected victims into mindless zombie-type creatures nicknamed Cranks. Moreover, the Gladers eventually discover that they were imprisoned within the maze by an evil government agency known as W.C.K.D. (short for World in Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department), who were hoping to use the adolescents’ blood to find a cure for the epidemic, seeing as a handful of people were immune to the virus’ disturbing effects. The final part, The Death Cure, comes to us with very little fanfare, after being delayed by a serious on-set accident, which saw star Dylan O’Brien injured and hospitalized. Directed by Wes Ball (who’s helmed all three installments), The Death Cure gets right into the action with a high-speed Mad Max-type railcar raid — filmmakers probably aware that, at this point in the male-led series, it’s not worth catering to newcomers. At the center of the death-defying heist, we have Thomas and his Glader buddies Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and Frypan (Dexter Darden), who are on a mission to rescue their captured comrade, Minho (Ki Hong Lee), who’s locked up in a train full of teenagers that are being shipped to a W.C.K.D. Facility for testing. Every breath you take With the help of resistance fighters Brenda (Rosa Salazar) and Jorge (Giancarlo Esposito), the boys manage to rescue a carriage of hostages, only to discover that Minho isn’t amongst the rabble, their friend taken to W.C.K.D.’s headquarters in the wasteland’s fabled city stronghold, the Last City (a gleaming CGI metropolis of soaring skyscrapers and florescent billboards). Naturally, our protagonists decide to break into the heavily fortified area to free Minho from the clutches of W.C.K.D., who have him in their towering control center. Inside the building, Minho suffers through a series of laboratory tests carried out by onetime Glader and Thomas’ former flame, Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), an informant who befriended the boys inside the maze. Written, once again, by T.S. Nowlin, The Death Cure sees Thomas & Co.
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