My encounter with “The Maze Runner”, the 1st movie in the series, happened purely by chance. I had wanted to watch any movie back then, and “The Maze Runner” seemed to be the most promising one, so I chose it. You can say I very much enjoyed the movie, and had been looking forward to watch the sequel, “The Scorch Trials”, rather enthusiastically since.
I skimmed few beginning chapters of “The Scorch Trials” book, so I’m more or less aware that some notable differences have been made to adapt it into the movie. I can imagine that some changes are necessary to keep the movie compact. The happenings in the movie should be able to bring the story forward, keep in line with the original plot, but at the same time enable even viewers who didn’t read the book to understand what is going on.
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