r/MazeRunner

Hi! Looking for people who would be interested in doing a Maze Runner Rp Discord server. It's an Au combining other fandoms into it. Rewriting the lore a little bit to have the other fandoms we're Implementing into it.

We've haven't really had a chance to start the rp mainly because we've been trying to find people first. We have a few Canon's claimed already.

Au changes

This is if it was WICKED's only Maze. So all Group B, C, and D's kids were put in the same Maze with Group A and more Gladers as well.

The Glade itself is 100 Acres big of land and the Maze itself has 100 sections

It is a Girl and Guys Maze and the leadership in the Glade is changed a bit with some custom Glader roles added and some Oc's having some of the other roles.

Thomas and Teresa aren't the main protagonists in this Au. They are just normal Gladers.

Fandoms we're combining (Hunger Games, Walking Dead, Divergent (Not movie version), The Last of Us, The 100 (minus sci-fi technology, nuclear fallout, and other planets) will be the major fandoms we're Implementing.)

There is more than just Grivers and Beetleblades in the Maze that Runners have to survive from when running out there.

Oc's are allowed and encouraged

WICKED found a way to temporarily stop the aging process and Flare virus continuation for 100 years which is how long their running the Maze Trials for which gives the time they need to test the Gladers in the Maze in hopes of finding a cure for the world. They forcibly gave the serum to every other surviving human in the world no matter what they said. They only had enough for one dose.

I just finished watching all three movies and I've never wanted to punch anyone more in the face than theresa. Like I understand her wanting to find a cure and what not but how is someone so unlikeable. Is she like this in the books? and on that point, are the books worth reading?

hi so idk if there are any editors on this sub but i've been wanting to start editing tmr (maybe other fandoms too) for a while now but idk where to best get the clips for the edits. i've heard of scene packs and someone from a different fandom i'm in once tried explaining to me how they work but idk where to best find tmr scenes specifically. so if there are any tmr editors here help would really be appreciated! :)

They were trying to make a cure i dont see anything bad with that

I think the biggest problem with making the new Maze Runner movie mostly about completely new characters is that it would be incredibly hard to make it feel like the Maze Runner we know.

I'm not saying a new cast couldn't make a good movie. I'm saying it would be much harder to make something that feels as good as the original trilogy, because the characters and their relationships are such a huge part of what made it special.

My steak analogy is: Maze Runner is the steak, and the characters are the seasoning. The original filmmakers already figured out the exact recipe that worked. If they make a new steak with completely different seasoning, it could still be good, but there's no reason to expect it to taste as good as the one they already perfected.

And bringing back only Thomas wouldn't completely fix that either. Thomas is important because of his relationships with Newt, Minho, Teresa, etc. If all of them are gone, you're still missing a huge part of what made his story meaningful.

I also don't want another POV of the original trilogy, because we'd already know what happens. I'd much rather see an actual continuation with the characters we already care about and a completely new conflict.

Maybe I'm biased because I love the original Maze Runner way too much, but I genuinely think throwing away most of the original characters would make the writers' job MUCH harder.

Also, if they decided to bring back one of the old characters, I think Teresa makes way more sense than Newt. Newt already had a very definitive farewell, and bringing him back could risk cheapening one of the most emotional moments of the trilogy, especially because his death was such an important part of his character arc.

Teresa feels different to me. Her death felt less final, and there are still more unresolved connections between her, Thomas, and WICKED. If Thomas ends up being the MC, bringing Teresa back could actually create a meaningful new conflict instead of just undoing a character's death for the sake of it. I know Teresa is much less popular than Newt, but story-wise, I think she has a much stronger reason to return.

ok so now i wait for replies to cure my boredom

I tried re-watching the movies after a while and god are the plot points stupid. Speaking from strictly a scientific sense, nothing about it makes sense. How they're able to isolate an enzyme from blood and know its structure and yet with all the world's resources and existential pressure, can't somehow manufacture it, how Brenda gets better with Thomas' blood despite neurodegeneration being impossible to reverse, how they keep talking about how close they are to a cure even when they seemingly have no plans of making a cure for enough people (I mean, seriously... Is one person's blood supposed to be enough for the entire world?). And also, they should with all their scientific brilliance know if the problem is incurable from the start. They already face an uphill battle: the enzymes must cross the BBB if injected IV (which is normally impossible but I guess with some encephalitis weakening the barrier it's plausible). It wouldn't take much more for it to be pretty clear that a cure is impossible, in much the same way a blanket "cure for cancer" is impossible. In any case, it's strange to me that they'd be so unaware of whether this problem is even mechanistically solvable at all.

Hello! I'd love to get your opinion on a project I'm thinking about.

I want to write a script remake of The Scorch Trials movie that adapts the book a bit more faithfully. I don't consider myself a great writer, but I really want to bring my own vision of the story to life.

Do you think I should rewrite The Maze Runner script first, or jump straight into The Scorch Trials? If I start with The Scorch Trials, there will be a few extra
Gladers around, including characters who survived the Maze in my version even though they died in the original film.

For instance, if I'm not mistaken, a character like Clint one of the Medjacks is supposed to stay alive throughout the trilogy.

I've been thinking a lot about the new Maze Runner movie, and I honestly think the biggest clue would be whether Thomas is actually the main character. If Thomas is only a side character, I think the chances of seeing other major characters from the original trilogy become extremely low. There wouldn't be much reason to bring back characters like Teresa or Newt if the story isn't actually continuing Thomas's story. But if Thomas IS the MC, I think things get much more interesting. At that point, I'd expect the writers to give him some kind of connection to the old story instead of simply putting him into a completely unrelated plot with a bunch of new characters. That's also why I think Teresa makes more sense as a possible return than Newt. Newt had a very definitive farewell, and bringing him back could cheapen one of the most emotional moments of the trilogy. Teresa, on the other hand, feels like she has more unresolved connections to Thomas and WICKED, and her death felt less final to me. I'm obviously not saying this is confirmed or that either of them is actually coming back. I'm just saying that if Thomas is the MC, I think the odds of getting at least one major returning character become much more interesting — and Teresa would be my strongest bet.

In the beginning of the first half when thomas get near the maze, chuck warns him to not get too close to the maze, thomas is like „maze?, you said maze“ and chuck replied „did i?“

was there any reason thomas shouldn’t have been told about the maze? did chuck accidentally tell him and like maybe want to introduce the whole concept of everything later on slowly? or was it like a „technical“ error of chuck and there’s deeper meaning to it?

genuinely can’t tell if i am reading too much into a simple scene tell me please

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