'Maze Runner 3' Release Date, News: Could 'Death Cure' Be Split Into 2 Parts?
Despite the ongoing trend, 20th Century Fox's newest young adult movie franchise, "The Maze Runner," won't be splitting its third and final instalment "The Death Cure."
A report from Collider said that the final series of the science fiction dystopian action thriller, which was based on James Dashner's 2009 novel, "is not being split in half." The said title will have a February 17, 2017 release date.
The move will see a diversion from what other young adult movies like "The Twilight Saga (Breaking Dawn Part 1 & 2)," "The Hunger Games (Mockingjay Part 1 & 2)," and "Harry Potter (The Deathly Hallows Part 1 & 2)," have been doing.
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In the midst of all these, a report from Movie Pilot pointed out Dashner's Facebook post confirming that "Scorch Trials," the upcoming second installment of the franchise, will borrow some plot points from "The Death Cure" (the third and final book of the series).
"As you can probably tell, there's a little bit of Death Cure incorporated into the second movie. Movies are a different breed. It's more like the second and third books were pit in a blender and poured out into what made best sense for the big screen. But it's all there," Dashner's post read.
This would leave the screenplay writers with "less to adapt in way of the third movie," hence the reason behind the third installment not cut into two.
"Without knowing exactly what plot points they're shifting forward from the third book to the second movie, it's hard to speculate where the direction of the third movie will go," the site wrote.
"The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials" will open in U.S. theaters this Sept. 18. A new prequel of the book series titled "The Fever Code" is due for release in 2016.
