Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials: Book vs. Movie
Wes Ball’s 2015 film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is adapted from James Dashner’s 2010 sequel. Thomas and the Gladers leave the Maze behind and cross a world devastated by the Flare.
From Books Adapted
How much of the book it covers
The movie brings the resistance forward from The Death Cure
The second movie draws mainly on The Scorch Trials, but also uses material from the third book, The Death Cure. It is not a complete, separate adaptation of book two.
Wes Ball said he approached the final two books together, moving events between them to make two connected movies. One substantial move is the Right Arm, the resistance to WCKD. It arrives in the third book but appears in the second movie, putting an organized opposition into the story before the finale.
What changed from the book
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Crossing the Scorch becomes an escape instead of an assigned test
In the book, WICKED sends the Gladers into the Scorch for another controlled trial. They have two weeks to cross it.
The movie makes Thomas discover that the apparent refuge is another WCKD facility. He and the others break out, taking Teresa with them. Their desert journey becomes a search for the Right Arm while WCKD pursues them, rather than an assignment they have been given.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- James Dashner
- Year
- 2010
- Pages
- 384Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 10 hr 23 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Mark Deakins
- Series
- The Maze Runner, book 2
After escaping the Maze, Thomas and the other Gladers learn that their ordeal was only the first phase of WICKED’s experiment. Told they carry the Flare, they are given two weeks to cross the devastated Scorch and reach a promised safe haven, while another test group and WICKED’s manipulation turn friendship and trust into part of the trial.
- Director
- Wes Ball
- Writer
- T.S. Nowlin
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 2 hr 11 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Patricia Clarkson
- Genre
- action, Drama, dystopian, Fantasy, Mystery, post-apocalyptic
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
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.
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.
- 2The Scorch TrialsMaze Runner: The Scorch Trials · Movie · 2015You are here
- 3
The Death CureMaze Runner: The Death Cure · Movie · 2018Details
- Director
- Wes Ball
- Writer
- T.S. Nowlin
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 2 hr 23 min
- Cast
- Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Ki Hong Lee, Patricia Clarkson
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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