Itwas both strange and wonderful to, amongst the chaos, stop for a second while Thomas remembers his short but eventful time in the Glade. Considering so much had changed and been revealed since TheDeath Cure - the final chapter in the Maze Runner trilogy - finally limps into cinemas after a protracted three-year wait (brought on by an on-set accident involving leading man Dylan O'Brien).In that time, the Young Adult landscape has become a barren desert, with dozens of potential franchises withering under the long shadows cast by Harry Potter, Bella Swan and Katniss Everdeen. JamesDashner is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series: The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, The Kill Order and The Fever Code, as well as the bestselling Mortality Doctrine series: The Eye of Minds, The Rule of Thoughts, and The Game of Lives.Dashner was born and raised in Georgia, but now lives and writes in the Rocky Mountains. Vay Tiền Nhanh. It’s following in the footsteps of its predecessor. Have you been paying attention, gladers?Today we’re looking at The Death Cure’ movie vs. the book. Like its predecessor, The Death Cure’ movie is very different from the source material. And yet while we counted more changes in this movie than we did in The Scorch Trials’, the very core of the book’s story is present. Still, it’s hard to ignore some of these differences! We counted 24 differences between the book and movie — how about you? You might also be interested in… 22 BOOK TO MOVIE CHANGES IN THE SCORCH TRIALS’ MOVIE 12 BOOK TO MOVIE CHANGES IN MOCKINGJAY, PART 2’ MOVIE SPOILERS 26 BOOK TO MOVIE CHANGES IN THE ALLEGIANT’ MOVIE Here are all the Death Cure movie differences! BOOK AND MOVIE SPOILERS BELOW! 1. That insane train opening. In the Book It’s not in the book at all. The book opens with Thomas as a prisoner of WICKED. He’s in solitary confinement for nearly a month before being reunited with the other the Movie Thomas and his friends are on a mission to rescue Minho who is en route to the WCKD headquarters. They ultimately manage to steal away an entire boxcar of children from WCKD but fail to rescue Minho. 2. Basically everything Minho. In the Book Minho is with Thomas and his friends from the beginning. He was never taken by WICKED like he is at the end of The Scorch Trials’ movie. In the Movie Rescuing Minho from WCKD is the story’s major plot point. Their infiltration into the city — and the purpose of breaking into WCKD — is to save Minho, who is being experimented on by WCKD doctors. 3. The memory surgery is absent. In the Book At the beginning of the book, Janson tells the gladers that they’ll be getting their memories back. Thomas, Newt and Minho are suspicious of the offer and at first refuse. They’re eventually forced to comply. When Thomas is being led into the memory surgery, Brenda appears and reveals that she had been working for WICKED but was plotting against them. She and Jorge break Thomas, Newt and Minho out before they receive the the Movie This entire plot point is absent from the movie. 4. Janson doesn’t reveal who is and isn’t immune. In the Book Janson reveals from the beginning who is and isn’t immune. It’s here where Thomas learns that Newt isn’t immune to the Flare. Janson goes on to explain that WICKED placed individuals who weren’t immune in the Glade as control variables for their experiment. In the Movie This scene never takes place. However, Newt does realize that he isn’t immune about mid-way through the film — when he has the Flare. He shares his suspicion with Thomas that he must have been placed in the Glade as a control variable. 5. The Right Arm is around from the very beginning. In the Book The Right Arm is introduced almost midway through the story when they’re revealed to be kidnapping people immune to the Flare. It’s revealed that their actual plan is to use their kidnapped immunes as a way to sneak into the WICKED headquarters and ultimately bring the organization down. In the Movie The Right Arm is introduced in The Scorch Trials’ movie and plays a major role in the final fight scene with WCKD. Thus, they’re present at the very beginning of The Death Cure’ movie. In fact, Vince helps Thomas in his attempt to rescue Minho from the train. It’s also important to note that the Right Arm intends to sail a ship away to a safe place in the movie. The entire story of capturing immunes is absent from the Mad Scientist Teresa. In the Book Teresa’s loyalty to WICKED is a hot point in the book — there’s no doubt about that. But in the beginning of The Death Cure, Thomas witnesses her escaping WICKED with a group of gladers. She and the other gladers make their way to Denver where they’re eventually captured by the Right Arm and later reunited with Thomas and his friends. In the Movie Teresa is mad scientist all the way! She’s actively using Minho to create a cure for the Flare. Her storyline from the book is thrown out the window. 7. Thomas, Newt and Frypan’s mission to rescue Minho alone. In the Book As explained above, Thomas and his friends escape WICKED with the help of Brenda and Jorge. From there, they head to Denver. In the Movie Thomas decides he’s going to go on a solo mission to rescue Minho. Newt and Frypan find out about Thomas leaving and decide to go with him. They soon get trapped by some cranks and are then rescued by Brenda and The cranks in the tunnel scene. In the Book There is a moment in the book where Thomas and his friends are attacked by a group of cranks while driving in a van with Lawrence on their way to meet the Right Arm. But this scene takes place much later in the book when they’re in Denver. In the Movie The scene where they’re being attacked in their car takes place in the tunnel at the beginning of the movie instead. Lawrence isn’t present at this point in the film. 9. “The city” is the only city left. In the Book Readers are led to believe that there are a number of cities still standing. The city that Thomas and his friends travel to is specifically identified as Denver, Colorado. In the Movie It’s said that there are next to no cities left. The city that Thomas travels to is never referred to by name. 10. There’s no Crank Palace. In the Book There’s an area where cranks have been quarantined in Denver. Newt is eventually taken here and Thomas and his friends go to find him. They fail to convince Newt to come with them and he’s left at the Crank Palace. In the Movie Crank Palace isn’t in the movie. Newt never leaves the core group. 11. Hans isn’t in the movie. In the Book One of the major reasons Thomas and his friends go to Denver is to meet up with a man named Hans. Hans used to work for WICKED and can take the tracking chips out of the gladers. He eventually does this, though after WICKED starts mind controlling Thomas who attacks everyone during the surgery. In the Movie Hans isn’t in the movie and the primary motivation for going to the city is to rescue Minho. Later on in the film, Teresa is the one to extract the tracking chips from Thomas and his friends. The mind control element is absent. 12. Gally’s not really working for the Right Arm. In the Book When arriving in Denver, Thomas receives a note stating that Gally would like to meet him. When they finally meet, it’s revealed that Gally is working with the Right Arm. In the Movie A group of masked men captures Thomas and his friends when they arrive outside the city. Gally is revealed to be one of these men. It’s also learned that he’s working with a rebel group of cranks rather than the Right Arm. 13. Lawrence has a heightened role in the movie. In the Book Lawrence takes Thomas to the Right Arm where he meets Vince. He later drops Thomas off at the WICKED headquarters as part of a plan to take them down. In the Movie Lawrence appears as the Voldemort-esque leader of a crank army. He eventually blows up the wall protecting the city, killing himself but allowing the cranks from the outside world to overcome the city and WCKD. 14. The break into WCKD headquarters is totally different. In the Book Thomas teams up with the Right Arm to break into WICKED headquarters. The plan is for Thomas to sneak a device into the headquarters that will disable everyone’s weapons, giving the Right Arm a fair advantage against the WICKED guards. The Right Arm storms the headquarters just as Thomas is about to be operated on by Janson and his the Movie Thomas and his friends kidnap Teresa as she’s going home for the night… to her apartment?. They eventually break into the headquarters disguised as guards, using Teresa’s thumbprint as a key to get into high-security areas of the building. They rescue Minho and the children WCKD has captured. 15. That insane bus scene. In the Book It’s not in the book. In the Movie Holy shank! Brenda drives a bus of rescued children as part of a high-speed chase through the city. Just when she appears caught, Frypan pulls the bus into the air with a crane. It’s crazy. 16. Newt’s death is different. In the Book Thomas eventually spots Newt on the highway this is sometime after having left him at the Crank Palace. They’re on their way to WICKED headquarters when they spot him. Newt’s gone full crank at this point but Thomas tries to convince him to go with them. Newt’s not having it and attacks Thomas, begging for death. Thomas finally agrees to do so. He shoots Newt in the head. In the Movie The Flare finally overcomes Newt as they escape from WCKD headquarters. Like in the book, Newt starts attacking Thomas. Meanwhile, Minho and Brenda are racing to get medication to Newt with the hopes of delaying the Flare’s effects. While fighting with Thomas, Newt takes out a knife and accidentally stabs himself during their scuffle. This happens right as Brenda arrives with the Everything Chancellor Page. In the Book Paige never appears in the books. That doesn’t mean she isn’t absent, however. She’s definitely present within the Maze Runner world. In fact she communicates with Thomas in The Death Cure via a note. This happens after he’s infiltrated WICKED headquarters and avoided Janson’s operation to extract his brain. Paige’s note says that she stopped the operation apparently they didn’t actually need his brain or something and instructs Thomas to save the kidnapped immunes. In the Movie Paige is very present throughout the film. She’s working with Janson and Teresa to find a cure at the headquarters. Thomas eventually meets with her, convinced that he is the key to the cure they’ve been looking for. But before he can go with her, Janson kills her and takes Thomas for himself. 18. They never go back to the Maze. In the Book Paige’s note to Thomas instructs him to go back to the Maze/Glade from Book 1. The kidnapped immunes are being held there and Thomas has an opportunity to lead them to a safe place where they’ll be free from violence forever. They need to get to a portal/transporter — “Flat Trans” — to get to the safe place. On their way, the Right Arm begins destroying the Movie It’s not in the movie. However, we do see a flashback to the Maze from Minho while Teresa and her evil doctor friends are experimenting on him. 19. Where did all the grievers go? In the Book A pack of grievers comes to life and attacks Thomas and the immunes as they try to escape the Maze. Thomas fights off the grievers but some of the immunes are killed during the attack. In the Movie Also not in the movie. But again, we see a griever in one of Minho’s forced nightmares. 20. Janson is killed by cranks. In the Book Just as Thomas and the immunes are about to escape through the Flat Trans, Janson and his cronies show up. Janson tries to stop Thomas, but Thomas ultimately kills Janson by strangling him to death. In the Movie Janson chases Thomas and Teresa into a room where cranks are being held and experimented on. This allows Thomas to shatter one of the glass doors protecting them from the cranks. The cranks are released and immediately attack and kill Janson. 21. Teresa’s death is different too. In the Book Teresa saves Thomas’s life, pushing him out of the way from falling debris. The debris crushes her instead. Thomas goes on to escape through the Flat Trans. In the Movie THOMAS AND TERESA KISS for reals this time. They’re on the roof of the WCKD headquarters and Jorge flies the berg toward them. Teresa helps Thomas jump into the Berg, but the building collapses before she can be Nope to the Brenda kiss. In the Book After finally arriving in paradise, the story ends with Thomas and Brenda kissing. It’s implied that Brenda is keeping something from Thomas. In the Movie They make it to paradise — not through the flat trans — but the giant ship seen in the beginning of the movie. And Brenda and Thomas don’t kiss. Instead, they carve the names of the loved ones they lost into a stone. 23. Newt’s note is now a letter. In the Book Newt hands Thomas a note at the beginning of the book, shortly after learning he’s not immune to the Flare. He tells Thomas to read the note when the time is right. Thomas does so shortly after leaving Newt at the Crank Palace. Newt has asked Thomas to kill him in the note. In the Movie Newt gives Thomas a small capsule. Thomas opens the capsule at the end of the film and finds a two-page letter from Newt. It’s a lot nicer than the note Newt wrote him in the book. The letter essentially praises Thomas for being the good friend and leader he is and reflects on what they’ve been through, the people they’ve met and the things they’ve overcome since Thomas arrived in the Maze. 24. WCKD is not good. In the Book An epilogue written by Chancellor Paige reveals the final twist. Brenda and Jorge had been planted by WICKED after Paige realized that the attempt to find a cure wouldn’t succeed. Brenda and Jorge’s mission was to lead the remaining immunes to a safe and secure place — a place away from the cranks. This would allow the immunes to start civilzation anew while the rest of the world dies off. Paige also reveals that the government created the Flare virus as a method of population control. They weren’t able to control the virus, so WICKED stepped in with the goal of preserving the human race. With Brenda and Jorge leading the immunes to the safe paradise, they essentially succeed in their mission. This proves Paige’s point WICKED is good. In the Movie It’s not in the movie. They make it to the safe paradise, but Paige’s memo proving that WCKD is good does not appear in the film. Did you like these changes? Did you notice any changes that we missed? Discuss the movie in the comments! Editor's Note James Dashner, the author of the Maze Runner series, was dropped by his agent and publisher because of allegations of sexual misconduct made by several anonymous individuals. We feel it's important for our readers to be aware of these allegations. For more information on how Bookstacked covers alleged abusers in the publishing industry, please click here. The Death CureThe Maze Runner 3by James Dashner My rating 3 / 5Genre YA dystopian Spoiler notice The following review may contain some spoilers for the previous books in the series, The Maze Runner & The Scorch Trials. The first thought I had after I finished reading this book was, “Eh.” And in a lot of ways, that accurately sums up my thoughts on it. It was…okay. Not terrible better than book 2, but not great either. The answers in this book only solidified my theory that Dashner did not have the trilogy planned out when he wrote the first book and didn’t really know where to go from the maze. The reasoning behind all of the trials and “variables” was mediocre at best. Terminology was strange and didn’t always make sense like “killzone”, and in the end, most of what was going on was not any more grand, exciting, or surprising than everything I guessed at along the way. The ending was more of what I would call a “non-ending.” Not satisfying in any way. The characters didn’t get much better in this book. The only character I really liked throughout the series was shafted in this book. Teresa was even more pointless in this book than in the previous. And I seriously don’t get any kind of a feel for Brenda. So many people like her, but she seems fairly lifeless to me. And something she said near the beginning of this book, now that I think of it, makes no real sense and barely came into play. So in the end, would I recommend this series? No. Not to adult readers, at least. Maybe teenagers get more out of it, I don’t know. It seems like it’s one of those that you either love or just don’t care for at all. I liked the first book, but the rest of the series didn’t deliver on that set-up. And I have no desire to read the two prequel books. Find out more about The Death Cure See what I’m reading next. If you’ve read this book, or read it in the future, feel free to let me know what you think! The past few years have been a rather dystopian era for dystopian YA film adaptations. After “The Hunger Games” became a genuine phenomenon, studios went on a spending spree, scouring increasingly indistinguishable tales of chosen ones and oppressive government regimes for potential franchises, with decidedly mixed results. Ever since Jennifer Lawrence called time on Katniss, “Divergent” has fizzled out rather ignominiously; “Ender’s Game” and “The 5th Wave” proved to be nonstarters; and after a delayed production that saw series lead Dylan O’Brien injured in an on-set accident, “Maze Runner The Death Cure,” the third and final entry in Fox’s adaptations of James Dashner’s books, finally arrives this month with relatively little fanfare. Somewhat surprisingly, however, “Maze Runner’s” core team – including original series director Wes Ball – have rallied to give this once middling saga a proper sending-off. Downplaying some of the property’s sillier elements when not jettisoning them entirely, and streamlining the narrative into a rousing and at times even emotional action film, “Death Cure” is the most successful entry in the franchise by far. It may be too late to turn the cultural tide on the genre, but it comes as a relief to see at least one series manage to stick the landing. Perhaps mindful that the film is unlikely to attract many newcomers at this point, “Death Cure” devotes almost no time to catching audiences up on the events of 2014’s “The Maze Runner” and 2015’s “Maze Runner The Scorch Trials.” For those with short memories, our hero Thomas O’Brien is still hard at work fighting an evil, quasi-governmental agency known as WCKD, which imprisoned him and a slew of comparably good-looking youngsters in a monster-filled labyrinth called “The Glade” in the first film, then pursued them across a harsh desert wasteland in the second. They did this as part of a needlessly complicated strategy to fight a massive global pandemic known as “The Flare,” which turns the infected into mindless zombie-like creatures called cranks. The poor kids imprisoned in the maze they call themselves “Gladers” are immune to the Flare virus’ effects, and WCKD’s head pair of sinister scientists Aidan Gillen, Patricia Clarkson subject them to various nefarious procedures to try to extract a cure from their blood. This underlying concept, as revealed at the end of the first film and elaborated upon endlessly in the second, is all exceedingly daft – and the more the series’ mythology expands, the daffier it tends to get. But it’s here that “Death Cure” makes its most surprising choice it barely concerns itself with the particulars of the whole conspiracy at all. Instead, what we get is essentially an old-school jailbreak movie, and director Ball wastes zero time flexing his action chops, kicking off the film with a solidly executed train robbery sequence. The robbers in question are Thomas and his trusty Glader buddies Newt Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Frypan Dexter Darden, as well sardonic resistance fighters Brenda Rosa Salazar and Jorge Giancarlo Esposito. Their target is a train full of young prisoners headed to a WCKD facility, among them the group’s captured comrade Minho Ki Hong Lee. They manage to rescue a car full of kids successfully, but Minho is not among them – he’s been taken to WCKD headquarters in this wasteland’s mythical last bastion of civilization, the appropriately named Last City. The gang all pledge to rescue their friend or die trying. The Last City, which they reach after some rote zombie-fighting, essentially resembles a landlocked Hong Kong, its gleaming skyscrapers surrounded by massive, heavily fortified walls that keep the filthy rabble living in shantytowns below from entering. “The walls are new – I guess that’s WCKD’s answer to everything,” Esposito’s Jorge says, in one of several moments that seem to draw fairly explicit parallels to the Trump administration. Inside, Minho is suffering through WCKD’s various laboratory tortures, all carried out by a onetime Glader and previous Thomas love interest-turned-traitor, Teresa Kaya Scodelario. Struggling to find a way inside, Thomas and company fall in with a mysterious, gruesomely scarred resistance figure Walton Goggins, as well as an unexpected returning character from the first film. Once they finally breach the city walls, the film comes to life. While “Death Cure’s” sweeping aerial shots still rely on obvious computer graphics, the street-level city scenes are among the series’ most fully realized and effectively designed, from the propaganda videos broadcasting on electric billboards to the half-glimpsed arrests of the suspected infected on teeming street corners. While not as visually resplendent as “The Hunger Games’” Capitol, the Last City is a believable rendering of a post-apocalyptic metropolis, and the care that went into sketching the setting pays off when the city devolves into an all-out warzone in the film’s final act. “Death Cure” can certainly fall victim to overkill – the climax drags out several scenes longer than it has to; the thunderous sound design grows deadening with one explosion after another – and there are more than a few key plot turns that seem to have lost some important context in the transition to the screen. But damned if Ball doesn’t pull off some impressive firefights and last-minute escapes once the action gets humming. “The Maze Runner” was Ball’s first film, and his ability to craft comprehensible setpieces has steadily improved throughout the trilogy. So too have the performances. Salazar once again proves herself to be an action hero in the making, given much more to do here than in “The Scorch Trials,” while Gillen hones his previously ridiculous antagonist into a properly hissable villain. O’Brien – who, to be fair, was rarely asked to do more than look alternately determined and terrified as he dodged countless terrors in the previous films – has noticeably matured as an actor here, and he sells the film’s emotional beats with a good deal of charisma. Brodie-Sangster has his moments, and Scodelario manages to get across a character of more complicated motivations than one usually sees in films of this ilk. Ironically, this cast has finally started to gel into a group you wouldn’t mind spending time with, just as they’re preparing to say goodbye. Well, better late than never.

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