Maze Runner: The Death Cure: Book vs. Movie
Wes Ball’s 2018 film Maze Runner: The Death Cure is adapted from James Dashner’s 2011 novel. Thomas faces WCKD’s final plans while the Flare threatens the people he is trying to save.
From Books Adapted
How much of the book it covers
The last book becomes a rescue mission
The movie completes the original trilogy in one final film. It draws mainly on The Death Cure, after the second movie had already used some of that book’s resistance story. Ball said the two sequels rearranged the final two books rather than adapting each in isolation.
The novel begins with an offer to restore the survivors’ memories. Thomas and his friends refuse and escape from WICKED. The movie instead opens with an organized attempt to rescue Minho and makes breaking into the Last City its central mission. The telepathy and body-control technology in the book do not carry over.
What changed from the book
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The finale leaves the book’s Maze behind
The novel brings the story back to the Maze for its climax. The movie stays with the assault on the Last City and the collapse of WCKD’s stronghold.
The city’s resistance attacks from outside its walls while Thomas’s group tries to get the captives out of WCKD. Their mission continues through the destruction of the city.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- James Dashner
- Year
- 2011
- Pages
- 358Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 8 hr 55 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Mark Deakins
- Series
- The Maze Runner, book 3
WICKED declares its trials complete and offers to restore the Gladers’ memories, but Thomas no longer believes the organization’s promises. After learning that some of his friends are not immune to the Flare, he chooses escape over cooperation and heads toward a collapsing Denver, determined to protect them and confront the system that has controlled their lives.
- Director
- Wes Ball
- Writer
- T.S. Nowlin
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 2 hr 23 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Ki Hong Lee, Patricia Clarkson
- Genre
- action, dystopian, Fantasy, Mystery, post-apocalyptic
- IMDb
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Thomas and the surviving Gladers launch a rescue mission after WCKD captures Minho and takes him to the fortified Last City. With Newt’s condition worsening and WCKD still experimenting on immune children, Thomas must enter the organization’s stronghold and choose how far he will go to save his friends.
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Other books in this series
- 1
The Maze RunnerMovie · 2014Details
- Director
- Wes Ball
- Writer
- Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers, T.S. Nowlin
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 1 hr 53 min
- Cast
- Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter, Patricia Clarkson
Thomas is delivered to the Glade, where a group of teenage boys has built a fragile community beside a vast mechanical maze. His refusal to accept the Gladers’ rules draws him into the maze and its Grievers, while Teresa’s unexpected arrival and fragments of Thomas’s returning memory point toward the organization controlling their captivity.
- 2
The Scorch TrialsMaze Runner: The Scorch Trials · Movie · 2015Details
- Director
- Wes Ball
- Writer
- T.S. Nowlin
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 2 hr 11 min
- Cast
- Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Patricia Clarkson
Thomas discovers that the facility sheltering the Gladers is controlled by WCKD and is harvesting immune teenagers for its research. He escapes with his friends into the Scorch, a ruined landscape filled with infected Cranks, and searches for the resistance known as the Right Arm while WCKD forces pursue them.
- 3The Death CureMaze Runner: The Death Cure · Movie · 2018You are here
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