'Scorch Trials' Movie Release Date, Trailer Spoilers: 'Maze Runner' Finale 'Death Cure' Won't Be Split Into Two Movies Like Other YA Franchises

The Maze Runner was a huge success last month, leading to the announcement and mounting hype for the sequel The Scorch Trials, and this week we're learning more about the franchise's finale installment, The Death Cure. Luckily for fans of the James Dashner novel series, unlike other YA adaptations, this last title won't be split into two films!

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A strangely aggravating trend among YA movie adaptations is stretching the franchise's worth by splitting the final story into two films. The Hunger Games are doing it with Mockingjay and Harry Potter did it with The Deathly Hallows. We won't even mention The Hobbit franchise, you guys. This trend might stop with The Maze Runner's last chapter.

"I think three is the number; beginning, middle, end, that's it. Four? I think there's something off about four," the series' director Wes Ball told Digital Spy this week. For me, if I have any say in it, there's three movies basically. We're not going to [split a book in two], no way. I think three movies is the right number, Star Wars!"

Though we won't get 4 movies out of 3 books, we could be seeing more of the story because Dashner also penned the Maze Runner prequel novel, The Kill Order, and is set to release its follow-up, The Fever Code, in 2016.

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(via Digital Spy / Slash Film)