2014’s The Maze Runner earned $340.7 million worldwide from just a $34 million production budget, with last year’s sequel The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, earning $312.2 million from a $61 million budget.
Wes Ball, who directed 2014’s The Maze Runner and last year’s The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, is directing from a script by T.S. Nowlin.
If Maze Runner 3 would have kept its February 17, 2017 release date, it would have faced plenty of stiff competition.
As of now, Maze Runner: The Death Cure is slated to go up against Sony’s Bad Boys For Life and Paramount’s Sherlock Gnomes, a follow-up to Gnomeo & Juliet.