Following the massive financial and cultural success of the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises, Hollywood was desperate to launch another franchise based on a popular young adult novel series. Many of these adaptations never made it past their first installment; The Darkest Minds, Beautiful Creatures, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and Mortal Engines were all disasters that failed to please either the original readers or first-time viewers. However, one anomaly to this trend was The Maze Runner, a dystopian sci-fi series that delivered three solid installments based on the popular novel series of the same name.