When it comes to naming the very small number of YA literary adaptations that didn’t end up crashing and burning at the box office, talk will inevitable turn towards the “Big Three” of Harry Potter, The Twilight Saga, and The Hunger Games. However, you could realistically turn that into a quartet, with Wes Ball’s The Maze Runner trilogy rounding things out.
The three-film saga was a hugely profitable enterprise for 20th Century Fox, earning a combined total of $949 million on total production costs of $157 million, even if the critical and audience consensus across the trio ranged from enthusiastic to tepid, depending on which installment we’re talking about. Of course, it’s a minor miracle that final chapter The Death Cure was even completed at all, after star Dylan O’Brien suffered a horrific accident during shooting.
When it comes to naming the very small number of YA literary adaptations that didn’t end up crashing and burning at the box office, talk will inevitable turn towards the “Big Three” of Harry Potter, The Twilight Saga, and The Hunger Games. However, you could realistically turn that into a quartet, with Wes Ball’s The Maze Runner trilogy rounding things out.
The three-film saga was a hugely profitable enterprise for 20th Century Fox, earning a combined total of $949 million on total production costs of $157 million, even if the critical and audience consensus across the trio ranged from enthusiastic to tepid, depending on which installment we’re talking about. Of course, it’s a minor miracle that final chapter The Death Cure was even completed at all, after star Dylan O’Brien suffered a horrific accident during shooting.