These guys care about each other and act on those feelings instead of bottling them up. Watching all three films back to back, one running theme I noticed is an interest in depicting male camaraderie and affection. Movies that are big on adventure, but hopefully have some real stuff to chew on. I grew up on Indiana Jones and Back to the Future, so I imagine those elements are in these movies because they are a part of who I am.
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If nothing else, hopefully because the same team made all these movies together, there’s some consistency even though each movie is its own little animal. I imagine you would see a growth in terms of craft: how I’d shoot scenes, do camera-blocking, stuff like that. Yahoo Entertainment: Having reached the end of the Maze Runner series, how do you feel the three films reflect your interests as a filmmaker? In our wide-ranging exit interview, the director dives into Death Cure spoilers, reveals how O’Brien’s accident forever changed his approach to action sequences and discusses why he hopes the dreaded YA label ends with The Death Cure. It really meant a lot to me to still finish the film and get through it with everybody.”įor his part, Ball is also happy to have seen the Maze Runner franchise through to its happy conclusion, with the finale topping the box office in its opening weekend. Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment recently, O’Brien remarked, “It’s something I’m so proud that I ended up getting through. The film shut down for a year while the star recovered, and finally opens in theaters today. But plans for an equally quick turnaround on The Death Cure derailed when O’Brien was badly injured in an on-set stunt gone wrong early on in production.
Released exactly one year later in September 2015, The Scorch Trials repeated the original’s success. A new franchise was born and after initially flirting with moving on to new projects, Ball returned to adapt the next two books in the series, The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure, back-to-back. Released to little fanfare in September of that year, The Maze Runner - which follows Thomas (O’Brien) and his allies as they battle a sinister corporation called WCKD on a future Earth ravaged by solar flares and a zombie-creating virus - quickly rocketed to the top of the box-office charts on the backs of young moviegoers. In 2014, the first-time director called “Action” on The Maze Runner, a relatively low-budget adaptation of a popular dystopian YA novel featuring a mostly untested cast of up-and-coming actors, including Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, and Will Poulter. Dylan O’Brien and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in Maze Runner: The Death Cure (Photo: Joe Alblas/20th Century Fox Film Corp/Courtesy Everett Collection) Warning: This post contains big spoilers for Maze Runner: The Death Cure.įor the past four years, a special effects artist-turned-feature filmmaker Wes Ball has been trapped in a maze of his own making.
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