‘The Maze Runner’ reboot gets rare update on recruitments

The Maze Runner story has a lot more to give.

The popular sci-fi action-adventure franchise, the trilogy series starring Dylan O’Brien from 2014 to 2018, will be rebooted at 20th Century Studios, reported The Hollywood Reporter.

As the beloved franchise, which is an adaptation of the best-selling books by James Dashner, is in negotiations to tap Jack Paglen to pen the script for the new project.

Paglen is best known for writing the Johnny Depp-starring sci-fi movie Transcendence.

The producers of the original trilogy, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman of Gotham Group and Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, are set to produce this one as well. Wes Ball, who directed the original trilogy, will also be involved as a producer.

According to the sources, the new instalment is “neither a redo of the story nor is it a direct sequel to the original trilogy, which starred O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario.

The plot of the movie revolves a group of teens, who have their memories wipes and find themselves in a walled encampment called the Glade. Beyond the wall fours lies a maze, which is filled with deadly mechanical creatures and doors that shut every night at sundown.

One new arrival has the secret to lead them out.