1 the idea was not stolen from the hunger games the hunger games was published two months before the maze runner and it says in the ebook dediation it took James Dashner three years to write. Suzanne Collins probaly wrote the hunger games in half that time, maning JD started writing his book first.
2 it didn't follow the book, which was disappointing, but it was still a good movie
3 i have read all five books and the scorch trials might be my favorite and i've read it twice. therefore, i know that an exact replica on screen would have been totally weird. some of the changs were necessary, though ot all of them. because that didn't hapen in the book.
4 *SPOILERS* in the book of the death cure newt gets the flare. since the scorch trials didn't follow the book i am hoping that in the death cure newt doesn't get sick.
5 THE DEATH CURE IS COMING OUT JANUARY 12, 2017!!!!!!