How the world in which we inhabit kind of operates and works, and how we can operate and work within that, so we feel a lot more matured in this movie, which is actually really nice. In both other movies we were thinking, “We don’t know who’s here, and what this world is, and who the good guys are, who the bad guys are.” In this one we’re pretty sure who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.
The one thing that’s changed here is that the Gladers now know what they have to do. Yeah, it’s the first time we’ve actually understood this world. We’ve done quite a lot of growing up together, so it’s a bittersweet moment to say goodbye to that. We’ve all matured quite a lot since the first movie. I think that we all feel that it’s wrapped up nicely. To find a place where they can feel comfortable to just go to sleep at night, and wake up in the morning.
He’s on a mission to make it okay with them, and in some ways to bring them back full circle to the first movie, when they were in the Glade together. I think Newt just wants his friends to be okay, and that’s it really. Thomas is more concentrated on sorting out the world, and trying to figure out what’s going on with WCKD. In Death Cure, I think he knows that things are going to come back round full circle. The only thing he clings onto are the people that he truly trusts and cares about. He probably had a family and friends before all this stuff happened, but his memories are gone. How is that affecting Newt? The only people that matter to Newt are these friends. The end is in sight for all these characters. They’re his movies, and they are also the first thing he’s ever done. It was great to have that consistency and to have that general arc all the way through. And that’s what made the movies, and that’s why we wanted him on the next and the next one. Whereas here he attacked it with a real sense of passion, and that also then carries all the way through the crew and cast, and gets everyone just as motivated as him. They could have just pumped out movies based on some books, it’s going to get a crowd in, it’s going to make a certain amount of money, and it’s just going to be done and easy. He’s got a vision in his head and it could have so easily gone to someone that didn’t really care that much. Thomas Brodie-Sangster: I think we knew, from the very first - before we even knew whether we would get a chance to make the second - that we all wanted Wes Ball to come back and do it again, just because he has this genuine excitement and genuine passion.
What has it meant to you to have that continuity? You’ve reached the end of a journey that started more than four years ago, and you’ve done it with the same cast and director on each of these movies. Dylan O’Brien, left, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in Twentieth Century Fox’s “Maze Runner: The Death Cure.”īrodie-Sangster looks back on his four-year journey with The Maze Runner series, and what to expect from the new film. After surviving “The Scorch Trials,” Thomas, Newt and the other Gladers are determined to reach the Last City in Maze Runner: The Death Cure, but it will be a long and bumpy road to the finish. In The Maze Runner, Brodie-Sangster played Newt, one of Thomas’s (Dylan O’Brien) first allies in the Glade, and a loyal, true friend. In 2009, he played Paul McCartney in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Nowhere Boy, about the early days of John Lennon and the Beatles. Since then he’s scarcely stopped, racking up a string of roles in films like Nanny McPhee, Tristan + Isolde, The Last Legion and Bright Star. Thomas Brodie-Sangster has been in the limelight since he made his feature debut, aged 12, in Richard Curtis’s romantic comedy hit Love, Actually.