

As Thomas and Brenda reunite with the rest of the group, Jorge interrogates Marcus, a survivor who secretly works for WCKD, into revealing the location of the Right Arm. Thomas experiences a flashback of him and Teresa working for WCKD in which Thomas tries to warn Teresa of WCKD's plans, only for both to be separated by WCKD's troops.

As Thomas and Brenda escape the Cranks, Brenda is infected. Thomas and Brenda are left behind, as the rest escape with Jorge. Minutes later, WCKD, led by Janson, storms the place, only for the facility to be destroyed by Jorge's explosives. Brenda and Jorge agree to take them to the Right Arm and abandon their group of survivors. The group meets Brenda and Jorge, who leads a dangerous band of survivors and have used the Cranks as guard dogs. Inside, they discover that it is filled with chained Cranks. While crossing the desert, the group takes shelter in the abandoned facility as a deadly lightning storm hits, nearly killing them all. Winston's infection becomes worse, which forces the others to let him kill himself to prevent his transformation. When morning comes, they find the city in ruins and the WCKD still searching for them.

The group arrives at an abandoned shopping mall and encounters the Cranks, humans zombified by the Flare virus. Janson orders WCKD troops to track them down. The group, including Aris, escapes the facility to the deserted outside world, the Scorch. Janson is working for WCKD when they discuss experiments on the Immunes and that Janson has yet to find the Right Arm, a resistance group in the mountains. With help from Aris, the first maze survivor to arrive in the facility (from another maze), Thomas discovers that WCKD's leader, Ava, is still alive and that Mr. Janson's care, they discover that they were not the only Gladers and that many more mazes were constructed, aside from their own. He says that the facility is a haven protecting them from the Flare virus and the "Cranks", and provides the supplies. Years later, shortly after being rescued from the Maze, Thomas and the remaining Gladers (Teresa, Newt, Minho, Frypan, Winston, and Jack) are taken to a facility run by Mr. Thomas and other abandoned children are placed in a walled maze in a place known as the Glade as part of its scientific testing. The concluding entry, titled Maze Runner: The Death Cure, was released on January 26, 2018.Ī mother drops off her scared reluctant son, Thomas, with the scientist Ava Paige and troops of the organization WCKD. The film went to the number one spot at the box office during its opening weekend, and grossed $312 million worldwide. Like its predecessor, the film was a commercial success grossing $30.3 million on its opening weekend, making it the ninth-highest grossing debut in September. The Scorch Trials received mixed reviews: some commended its action sequences and performances others criticized the film for its lack of plot and character advancement. It was originally set to be released in IMAX, but this was canceled, except Japan (converted to 3D), as Everest had all worldwide IMAX screens booked until the release of the film The Walk. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials was released in select international territories starting September 9, 2015, in 2D, 3D, 4DX and Barco Escape, and was released on September 18, 2015, in the United States in 2D and premium large-format theaters by 20th Century Fox.

Filming began in Albuquerque, New Mexico on October 27, 2014, and officially concluded on January 27, 2015. On the run in the desert and ruined cities, they must escape WCKD soldiers and face the perils of the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with dangerous obstacles. The plot of The Scorch Trials takes place immediately after the previous installment, as Thomas (O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers have just escaped from the facilities of the powerful World Catastrophe Killzone Department (WCKD), which had imprisoned them. Adding to the original film's cast of Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dexter Darden, Alexander Flores, Ki Hong Lee, and Patricia Clarkson, the new supporting cast includes Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Jacob Lofland, Katherine McNamara, Barry Pepper, Rosa Salazar, Lili Taylor, and Alan Tudyk. It was directed by Wes Ball, with a screenplay by T.S. The film is the sequel to the 2014 film The Maze Runner and the second installment in The Maze Runner film series. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (stylized onscreen simply as The Scorch Trials) is a 2015 American dystopian science fiction film based on James Dashner's 2010 novel The Scorch Trials, the second novel in The Maze Runner book series.
