“THE MAZE RUNNER” Picks Up Speed As September 17 Approaches! Watch and Meet the Gladers.
“The Maze Runner” is set to turn things in a dizzying
blur as the teenage captives in a virtual prison known as The Glade run for a
chance to save their lives. Headed by
“Teen Wolf’s” heartthrob Dylan O’Brien along with a group of talented young
actors including Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Aml Ameen, Thomas
Brodie-Sangster, Ki Hong Lee and Blake Cooper,
“The Maze Runner” is directed by Wes Ball based on James Dashner’s
hugely successful (trilogy) tome.
At
this year’s Comic Con, the cast attests that the movie will be shocked on how
the book’s famous baddies known as the Grievers, were depicted. Director
Ball further stressed that the audience will definitely be in for a pretty
terrifying ride.
Published in October 2009, “The
Maze Runner” became a New York Times Best Seller and 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.” Dashner understands those comparisons, especially
to Lord of the Flies, but notes that THE MAZE RUNNER is at its heart a very
different story. “I don’t think
characters would react they way they do in Lord of the Flies,” he explains. “I think they’d be more civilized, orderly,
and determined to survive and escape.
THE MAZE RUNNER is an adventure story that’s also about hope and the
potential of the human spirit.”
The book caught the attention of
producers Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman from the management/production
company The Gotham Group. “We see a lot
of young adult novels,” Stollman explains. “And you always look for something
that has a big world creation with characters that are identifiable and
something we haven’t seen before,” which is what they found in Dashner’s book.
Leading
man Dylan agrees, "That’s something that might separate this, I think,
being like one of those YA movies that are coming out. I so genuinely don’t
think it’s like that. It totally exists in its own right and like he said, it
could easily be taken as a kid’s movie just objectively, but there is a real
sense- there’s this gravitas to it It’s really, really mature in that aspect of
performances and just the story."
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. I wanted my readers, and now the moviegoing
audience, to feel like Thomas when they enter the Glade.”
“The
Maze Runner” opens September 17 from 20th Century Fox to be
distributed by Warner Bros. Watch The Maze Runner's "Meet the Gladers" video here:
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