When The Maze Runner came out, it appeared a new cultural phenomenon was on our hands. While the three films comprising the Maze Runner series received mixed reviews from critics, they were a massive financial success for 20th Century Fox, grossing a total of $949 million. When the first Maze Runner film was released in 2014, it was in good company, with other high-budget adaptations like The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Divergent. If the 2000s was the decade of teen movies, then the 2010s was the decade of YA book-to-film adaptations: with the success of film franchises like The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter, every major studio was on the lookout for a hit YA series of their own.
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