When THE MAZE RUNNER burst onto the scene back in 2014, it shoved its way into a marketplace already crowded with teen dystopian franchises based on YA novels. Katniss had already shot her arrow at authority in THE HUNGER GAMES. THE GIVER, THE HOST and DIVERGENT had already come and gone from cineplexes. Even when author James Dashner’s novel debuted in 2009, it had to be squeezed into a large … [Read more...]