The Maze Runner Trilogy Dominates Netflix Charts After Fourth Film Announcement

The Maze Runner is sprinting up a serious streaming chart. The younger grownup movie franchise, which takes place in a dystopian future the place youngsters are put by way of a sequence of mysterious challenges, is predicated on the James Dashner guide sequence of the identical title. The Maze Runner films star Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter, and Giancarlo Esposito.

All three films arrived on Netflix on October 9 and immediately appeared on the Prime 10 chart of the most-watched films in the USA. On the time of writing, 2014’s The Maze Runner is No. 2 (behind solely the brand new Netflix unique The Girl in Cabin 10), 2015’s The Scorch Trials is No. 5, and 2018’s The Dying Remedy is No. 8.

This unfold on the chart is pure for a bingeable sequence, as not each viewer who intends to observe all three films in a row has had the chance to take action, so the third and to date last installment is lagging behind considerably.

Aside from the 1995 horror-comedy Casper (No. 9), which is probably going surging due to the Halloween season and the film’s latest thirtieth anniversary, the primary two Maze Runner films are the oldest entries on the listing.

That roster additionally consists of 2017’s Despicable Me 3 (No. 7) and modern titles akin to KPop Demon Hunters (No. 3), My Father, the BTK Killer (No. 4), Caramelo (No. 6), and About My Father (No. 10).

This robust streaming efficiency for the franchise comes within the wake of the announcement of the upcoming Maze Runner 4. The mission, which is in growth as of Might 2024, is claimed to be a brand new installment set in the identical universe with out being both a reboot or a direct sequel.

Whereas the mission appears to have but to collect a lot steam, the streaming success of the unique trilogy on Netflix may assist propel progress on the mission. This reveals that the films are connecting nicely with modern audiences although that they had constantly diminishing returns on the field workplace, which may very well be the rationale the franchise didn’t proceed past the core trilogy.

Nonetheless, the ending of The Maze Runner: The Dying Remedy didn’t essentially need to mark the tip of the movie franchise. It is because Dashner wrote fairly a couple of extra books within the sequence, together with two prequels and a sequel trilogy titled The Maze Cutter that came about seven many years later.

Whereas the timeline of the books makes it unlikely that the brand new film will characteristic any returning forged members, Dylan O’Brien expressed some curiosity in reprising his position as Thomas, telling ScreenRant that “I assume I might deal with [a new Maze Runner movie] if it have been dropped at me” throughout a 2025 interview about his film Ponyboi.

Whereas the franchise fizzled out throughout its unique run, this resurgence generally curiosity for The Maze Runner, each behind the scenes and at house, may finally result in it coming roaring again and changing into a longtime, long-running younger grownup franchise similar to its hottest contemporaries, which embrace The Starvation Video games and Harry Potter.