#the maze runner cast

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Unpopular opinion: The Maze Runner is the only series where the movies are better than the books.

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Dylan O'Brien and Thomas Brodie Sangster with a fan at Terra Blues in New York. (May 2022)

📷©: heyseti Big Thank you goes out to a very wonderful person for sending me this. ❤️

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Our Gladers standing against racism and injustice ✊ #BlackLivesMatter

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Louder for the ones in the back

Thomas Sangster x reader 

Summery: Dylan says something embarrassing on live TV about you and Thomas.

This one isn’t as long as the other Fanfics I do. again anything misspelled I am sorry. and I hope you Enjoy<3

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I was so proud of him.

Dylan was saying the winner for an award at the Oscars and he had a drink in his hand along with a card held by his pinky. You could tell he was a little buzzed from how his face fell. I sat next to my boyfriend, Thomas and the rest of the cast of the Maze Runner series. We were put in the front row because the The Death Cure was nominated for a few awards. 

I was holding Thomas’s hand under the table as I listened to the story and remembering the times Dylan told us about it happening. 

He had a bit in the beginning were he was saying jokes and stories. He was Telling a story about a time he was put in a hotel room next to screaming children and he barely got sleep that night.

“These children wouldn’t stop screaming. Like please some people have work at 4 am. The next morning was hell to film as you expected. Tired as hell and having to do stunts all morning with no energy. I swear I was in the air at one point and took a nap. Like I was just hanging from the harness. Folded forwards”

Everyone giggled and he just smiled and looked down at his feet. Kicking dust that wasn’t there.

“Yea, Yea, But I guess you get used to loud screaming when you get put in a room next to Y/N and Thomas.”

My mouth hung open a little. I can’t believe he just said that to the world.

We all could hear laughing and people ooing at us. This was not real.

I looked over at Thomas and his face and covered by his hand and he was laughing to himself. Rubbing his forehead.

I looked back at Dylan and saw he was laughing and looking at me as well.

“I’m going to beat your ass later.” I mouthed to him.

“You’re going to beat my ass? Like Thomas that night.” He said again. I let out a breathy laugh and covered my face with my hands. I was so Embarrassed. I feel like I wasn’t going to make it out of this place alive.

Dylan was smiling at me. I could feel it. burning on my head.

“We all know it was going down tonight as well anyways.” He said again. 

I felt like this was going to never end.  

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Anxiety: Shouldn't you worry?

Thomas: About what?

Anxiety:...Idk

Thomas: *has a mental break down

[newtmassangsters]

Finally a cast I can relate to

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dylan and thomas play 'who would you call'

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Tried out some guache, I painted Thomas brodie sangster and it's not the most resemblant but hey, I still like it

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Dylan O'Brien as Thomas in the Maze Runner

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my roman empire is what would’ve happened if dylan obrien and thomas brodie-sangster had actually kissed in that one blooper

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Dylan O'Brien finds out in real time that a "The Maze Runner" reboot is in development during an interview with Liam Crowley from "Screenrant" and River Gallo during the "Ponyboi" press day in New York. (June 24, 2025)

🎥©: screenrant on Instagram

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Dylan O'brien

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i'm sorry but i find this absolutely hysterical and i have to share you know walton goggins?

no? how about now

yeah, so he plays lawrence in tdc and i'm dying because i just found out he also plays the ghoul in the new fallout show i present to you, the ghoul

apparently the hollywood casting directors have collectively decided that this poor man is better off not having a nose on screen. ever.

[ginaluvr]

rating the changes between tmr book and movie

anyone who read the books first knows that the movie trilogy ended up telling a completely different story. i've been a big fan of the books forever so i thought i'd rate the significant changes made in the first one since it's generally the same plot. scale is 0-5 with 5 being good change.

the gladers initially not remembering their names: 3/5. maybe it was done to raise the stakes and make it more disorienting.

there are no real buildings in the glade: 1/5. this implies they had to start completely from scratch when they first arrived, which makes the maze seem like a test of survival rather than willpower and psychology.

leading on from that... the maze is actually outdoors: 0/5. you're telling me they had rain and lots of greenery in an outdoor structure in a desert climate? and the gladers had no real shelter provided? it also makes the test of their determination less powerful, because in the books, the maze was an indoor structure. the fact that they could technically climb the walls and see the outside world in the movies removes some of hopelessness and frustration for me.

ben is a runner: 4/5. makes sense! especially since we never learned how he got stung as a builder in the books.

the gladers are allowed to have a bit of fun: 5/5. i love the bonfire scene. i think it's a realistic change that a bunch of teenage boys would want to let loose every now and then.

they were there 3 years instead of 2: 4/5. i mean, sure.

no one has ever seen a griever before and survived: 0/5. makes no sense at all because the gladers are aware of the changing as a process! if no one has ever survived encountering a griever, where did they get this precedent from? how did they recognise that ben was stung? perhaps this info was just newt being dramatic since it comes from his dialogue.

they don't have grief serum until teresa arrives: 1/5. again, doesn't make sense. the changing being a process they're familiar with which brings back memories after they get the serum is entirely destroyed in the movie. this is the catalyst for a lot of the events in the book and it loses all its function.

several of the characters are different in personality: varies. thomas is more typically 'cool' in the movie and less curious and, to put it bluntly, less annoying. i don't like this change much, his constant curiosity and eagerness to learn and discover was a huge part of who he was in the books (if you know mbti, all i have to say is he was an INTP in the books and an ISTP in the movies). then we have minho, who was way less brash, hot headed, and reckless in the movies (he was also made into an ISTP while he was an ESTP in the books). i think alby is a bit different. i like both portrayals of alby, but i think he seemed nicer and more chill in the movie, probably just because the actor was very charismatic. this works because he can easily be charismatic as a leader. but him also being a stressed out kid with too much responsibility in the books, leading to him lashing out more and being less calm and collected, makes sense! gally is a bit nicer, actually rational at times, in the movie. he's also not, like, pathetic and embarrassingly petty. these are all traits in the book which emphasise the fact that he's a scared kid, so this also isn't my favorite change ever.

thomas gets memories back in his dreams: 1/5. unnecessary and completely removes the high stakes of him having no recollection of his involvement with WICKED.

minho doesn't find a dead griever: 3/5. at least they still accounted for why alby had to go into the maze. i still wish they did it.

alby was alone in the glade for a whole month: 1/5. it is not logical that someone would be able to run a whole farm and build shelter all alone at 15 years old without any help. it also doesn't make sense that he wouldn't have gotten killed in the maze on accident.

teresa doesn't come up one day after thomas: 2/5. i guess it doesn't really matter, but this is just one element of the timeline being quite different that wasn't necessary to change.

minho helps thomas save alby in the maze: 0/5. this is thomas's first big act of heroism and the thing that makes minho respect him. they should've kept thomas doing it alone.

the grievers are completely different: 2/5. i understand that this is probably a design issue for the movie, but the book concept of the grievers is better.

the maze is completely different: 1/5. i don't like the movie maze... why is it a circle. the idea of the 8 square sections that are repeating and consistent makes the maze so much more frustrating and bewildering! also that part in the movie where the walls start to fall and the floors come up... why. there's also no code hidden in the walls, which was a very cool element.

no cliff/griever hole: 2/5. not terrible because this would be hard to show on screen. but the fact that instead, in the movie, there is just a visible section that the runners never found before is a bit unrealistic.

gally never went through the changing: 0/5. gally's hatred for thomas in the movie is baseless, while in the book it's clearly about suspicion and fear. he's an understandable antagonist in the book.

thomas and teresa don't have telepathy: 3/5. would've been hard to portray on screen. takes away from the depth of their connection, however.

the gladers give up too easily: 0/5. this one bothers me! when all the other runners in the movie randomly quit their jobs. the whole point in the books is that they'd never do that.

thomas is looked to as a leader: 0/5. when he starts giving orders in the movie and leads the charge into the maze.... ughhh. again i think they tried to make him a more cool and admirable protagonist, but i think a big part of the books is that thomas never saw himself as particularly special, or a leader. he couldn't have done anything he did without minho's, newt's, alby's, teresa's etc skill, authority, support. they were a team and a family. instead, in the movie, they start to follow him without question when he was barely there five days.

the grievers don't only kill 1 glader per night: 2/5. adds tension but also takes away from the fact that the maze again wasn't a test of survival.

alby's and chuck's deaths were essentially swapped: 0/5. i really dislike this change. they took away the fact that alby's fear changed him, and that his last act was both selfless and scared. in the movie he just died on accident. then i think chuck actually chose to sacrifice himself in the movie, when in the books he was forced to as a variable by WICKED. this absolutely takes away from the utter pointlessness of chuck's death, and it's also ooc for a scared 12 year old to choose to die when he so badly wanted to escape.

thomas had no real reason to sting himself: 0/5. he already had memories coming back in dreams and they already believed they had found an escape in the maze. he literally had no reason to go through the changing in the movie and it's a bit overdramatic for no reason.

people take gally seriously as a leader: 2/5. this only happened because alby got killed off early in the movie.

this is one of my least favorite changes so i saved it for last. nalby erasure: 0/5. the movies definitely take away that alby was newt's best friend and the person he cared for and protected most. likewise, in the books, thomas's favorite and most prioritised glader (along with teresa) was actually always minho. although thominho wasn't erased as much in the movies, the fact that those two pairings were the strongest bonds we ever got between the boys in the books isn't really there in the movies. i think the movies allowed people to forget that newt being canonly gay actually means alby is his most likely love interest!