How is Dylan O'Brien not Spider-Man again?
You're watching Beyond The Trailer's review of Maze Runner The Scorch Trials...
The Hunger Games made Jennifer Lawrence a star, and the Divergent series has...well...certainly
raised Shailene Woodley's profile. I say that because while the Divergent series is no longer
the runner up franchise when it comes to teen dystopian thrillers - it's The Maze Runner.
Yes, Insurgent pulled in two hundred and ninety-five million worldwide, off of a one hundred and
ten million budget. But The Maze Runner? Well that lean mean Griever fighting machine made
three hundred and forty million worldwide, off of just a thirty-four million budget!
So Fox is shrewdly upping the ante with sequel The Scorch Trails. The budget is under wraps
but seems at least slighter bigger, and not only have Lili Taylor from The Conjuring,
Gaincarlo Esposito from Breaking Bad and the ubiquitous Barry Pepper joined the cast, but
so has Game of Thrones' version of Quagmire - Aidan Gillen! Now again, The Hunger Games
is such a worldwide phenomenon that it's made Jennifer Lawrence a star, and while Divergent
has definitely helped Shailene Woodley's career, but so did The Fault in Our Stars, perhaps
even more so. And while Woodley might have beaten out Lawrence for Best Female Performance
at the MTV Movie Awards this year, Lawrence is still the bigger star - and the top earning
actress in all of Hollywood. Speaking of MTV, that's when Dylan O'Brien first began building
his fan-base, as the funny sidekick on Teen Wolf. But he soon became known to fans as
the HOT funny sidekick on Teen Wolf and when he landed the Maze Runner lead, well, Tyler
Posey didn't seem like the star of Teen Wolf anymore. O'Brien won best Breakthrough Performance,
Best Hero and Best Fight at this year's MTV Movie Awards, and while Marvel and Sony didn't
agree with fans that he'd make the perfect Spider-Man, O'Brien has been cast by Peter
Berg in his upcoming offshore drilling disaster movie Deepwater Horizon opposite Mark Wahlberg,
Kurt Russell and John Malkovich! And Disney DID draft fellow Maze Runner star Kaya Scodelario
for another one of their big franchises, Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Last time around Scodelario
was the only girl in the cast, but for the sequel she'll be joined by Rosa Salazar - who
had a bit part in Insurgent - and Katherine McNamara from MTV's short-lived Happyland.
So, let's see just how much distance The Maze Runner can put between itself and Divergent
as both franchises continue to move forward in the wake of The Hunger Games...