1. It’s aimed at young guys (but girls will love it too)!

Woah! A young adult GUY movie? After Twilight, almost every YA film made has been aimed at least somewhat towards women. Beautiful Creatures, The Host, The Mortal Instruments, none of them are guy movies. The only guys seeing these films are people being dragged by their girlfriends. The thing about male-based movies like The Maze Runner is that unlike guys and chick-flicks…girls like them too! Also, even differently than the “teen” audience… I feel like The Maze Runner will pull even younger guys, in the 10-13 range, away from their couches and into the movie theater. However, older guys will enjoy it too. This is a mature story, as well. It’s a mature action packed adventure that both guys and girls will love, and both young AND old people will love. It’s not dumbed down for young people – it’s going to feel real. No CGI Percy Jackson stiltedness.

2. The cast is nearly entirely male – and they aren’t all described as impossibly attractive. What?!

Bella, Tris, Katniss, Clary – the latest heroes of this latest YA film craze have all been women. There’s an obsession with the “strong female lead” but people are looking for something new! For some reason, guys and girls can relate to a male hero but males are reluctant to relate to a female hero. Since a guy wrote this book, you aren’t going to get descriptions of rippling abdomninals. Like Harry Potter, Thomas is an unlikely hero. He isn’t particularly athletic or confident at the beginning of the story, but we grow with him.

3. It doesn’t fit into any popular ‘genre’ exactly – the story is original!

Supernatural? Not really. Dystopian? Sort of. We don’t really know for most of the book since the entire plot shrouds our world in mystery. Romance? Certainly not. Is there a love triangle? Nope. If it must be categorized, it would be put into the “Sci-fi/Dystopian” mold. This has much wider appeal than fantasy. There are no vampires, no Shadowhunters, there are no passionate make-out scenes. The plot-point of the maze is extremely intriguing, so the audience is right there, gripped like James Dashner’s characters.

4. It features talented up-and-coming talent, mixed with seasoned veterans.

Dylan O’Brien is hugely talented, and plays the lead in this film. He has a huge fan base from his role of Stiles on Teen Wolf (seriously, have you been on Tumblr, recently?) and he’s refreshingly goofy and hilarious. We also have a cast of seasoned British actors like Thomas Brodie-Sangster of Game of Thrones, Kaya Scodelario of Skins, and Aml Ameen of The Butler. Then, we have Patricia Clarkson…Oscar winner! Plus, we have total newcomers like Blake Cooper as Chuck. This is a seriously impressive cast.

Wes Ball, an extremely talented young director (he created the short film, Ruin), has taken on this story as his first movie. So he’s diving into it with fresh eyes and understanding – and a lot of care and love. Then we have people like Wyck Godfrey, who is producing some of the biggest book-to-film adaptations the world has ever seen – Twilight, The Fault in Our Stars, and more. He knows what he’s doing. Experience, mixed with the wide-eyed excitement of talented newcomers is key here!

5. It’s based on an extremely popular book with a fanbase that reaches hugely wide demographic.

My 12 year old brother absolutely loves The Maze Runner, I love The Maze Runner. I’m a 21 year old girl! The author is a man, unlike any of the other popular YA book-to-films that have been made in the past few years. This makes it different. The world is always looking for something truly original, and I feel like this story fits the bill. The book is hugely popular, and has been for a while. The Facebook page of the film already has over 100,000 ‘likes.’ If that’s not proof of the pudding, I don’t know what is.

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Hi all, since Teen Wolf  is on hiatus and it’s Dylan’s birthday, I decided to put up a new layout!  I hope you all enjoy it.  I used the portrait session that Dylan did during Comic Con.  As you can see, I’ve added untagged versions of the shoot in the gallery.  Make sure to check it out in the gallery below and please let me know if you have any problem with the layout!

Here at Dylan O’Brien Online, we just wanted to wish Dylan a very Happy 22nd Birthday!

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The Internship Special Features:

● Deleted Scenes (Blu-ray only)

● Unrated Edition (Blu-ray and DVD)

● Any Given Monday

● Theatrical and Unrated Audio Commentary with Shawn Levy Sneak Peeks

● Sneak Peeks

At the panel yesterday, we saw the clip of you coming up in the box. You were saying that you had a very specific idea of how you wanted that to look. Can you talk about how you decided how that was going to work?

Wes Ball: Well you didn’t get to see it in the box, so wait til you see the trip up. The trip up is going to be very cool. It’s the first thing I ever pre-­vized. It’s an experience; it’s like a ride. It’s like a ride at Disney World or something. The lights go off, and suddenly, “Boom!” It comes on, and the thing comes to life, and you find yourself in this crazy world. He suddenly wakes up, like, “What the hell? Where am I?” I don’t explain anything at all, there’s just this crazy sound; it’s going faster and faster and faster. It’s rising, like, “Where the hell is it taking me?” So finally, it just hits this buzzer, and then it hits its stop, and then, “Boom!” The doors open up, and we are in the movie. It’s gonna be a very cool experience. I don’t even want credits up front. I just want them to start, and then, “Boom!” We’re in the box with Thomas as the audience, and experiencing it through his eyes.

James Dashner: Which perfectly captured the vision of the book and how the books go. I mean, he was the perfect choice to direct this movie. I think this is historic that we’re talking about this, because like six or seven months before they even started filming, he sent me his concept video for that scene he just described, and I knew that he was the best.

Wes Ball: It’s very dark, you know, it’s rattly and rusty. It’s cool, it’s neat. I’m really excited to get into that. But obviously we couldn’t build a 500 foot tall elevator shaft, so there was a lot of CG. But Dylan got beat up pretty good in that elevator cage.

Wyck Godfrey: Yeah, unfortunately, we built the cage out of like real rusty metal. So Dylan’s shooting over and over again, like trying to get out of this thing, and literally his hands are bleeding. We’re like, “Oh yeah, maybe we should have probably treated this. That’s all right, it’s just Dylan. Don’t worry about it.”

Wes Ball: Fortunately, by that point, that was like day 40 of 43. Suck it up man, let’s go.

Dylan O’Brien:At that point we were all the way in, I didn’t care.

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