Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Pitch Meeting
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- Опубліковано 5 кві 2023
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The YA-novel-turned-film-series craze was still raging on in the mid 2010’s and the Maze Runner movies definitely rode that wave. Based on the James Dashner series, the movies kind of… did their own thing?
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials definitely raises some questions. Like where are the trials? Why was one of the most suspicious-looking actors cast when someone trustworthy would have helped drive the twist home? Where are the mazes, and why is nobody running in them?! Is Minho trying to get himself kiled?!
To answer all these questions, check out the pitch meeting that led to Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
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As someone who has never been struck by lightning, I can confirm that it is actually more afraid of us than we are of it.
When I was hit by lightning he was more in a panic then I was he was really shocked
this is true. Lighting almost struck me once but I firmly but politely asked it to climb all the way off of my back and it got off that thing.
@@showaker4755 was it hard to get that lightning off your back
As Lightning myself, i can confirm this is true
Oooh, so that's why storms never stay around my house, they just come, smell me, get scared and leave.
As a book reader, the “The” aspect of the book was riveting. Very disappointed the movie omitted it 😢
I only read the book for the "The"
They missed a bet by not making it "of the," though. "Of the" seems to be the most important phrase of the various genres.
The book was more "The" than this movie could ever be.
My favourite part was the colon (it's the : symbol)
But for real though, the book actually had some really interesting plot pieces that were entirely removed from the movie (At least middle school me who read it thought so)
"Is that sarcasm?"
"Oh, no, I am just also very dumb".
I swear, Ryan George is a national treasure, so many episodes of this thing and yet he still comes up with some straight up creative humour. Mad respect.
Sarcasm hasn't been invented yet.
I maybe dumb!!... but I'm also stupid
He is absolutely a national treasure, but he is Canadian so unfortunately he is their national treasure.
@@Dadofer1970 don't worry, we'll share him with you
And then he goes on to prove he isn't dumb and notices the dumb mistakes the characters make...hmm... plot hole!!!! (and I also don't know what a plot hole really is...I'm very dumb)
"Betrayal is something, which is more than nothing, which is what was happening with her." Just kind of wrapping my head around with genius statement.
Never saw the movie so dunno really but very true of much Hollywood grabage in general
@@mikek7660 "grabage" actually works, it sounds like a synonym for chash grab 😄
The funny thing is that SOMEHOW said betrayal is EVEN DUMBER in the book. She literally does a FAKE BETRAYAL which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
2:06 "I'm also very dumb". This line killed me 🤣🤣🤣
And probably the same thing was said by someone in the actual pitch meeting for this movie.
Same! :) just great comedy all around!
Oh no! Are you ok?
@@KhanGarth he's dead, he said it in the comment
I'm going to use that line in real life
Wait, the bad guys were called "Wicked"??
Man, you could do pretty much anything in these YA dystopias, huh?
It was an acronym of World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department. WCKD in these movies
@@jasonculpepper5510 still bro
@@jasonculpepper5510 yeah nevermind that's not stupid at all
Ooh, villains who use an acronym that explains they’re evil are TIGHT!
Just started Harry Potter, these Slytherin people seem nice.
It is insane how natural Ryan can make an entire conversation with himself feel
you can really see the progress over the years, it was a little awkward still at the start
There was one extra that was in the group when they first entered the mall, who just randomly disappeared while they were running from the zombies. Never mentioned by the group at all, I felt bad for the little guy. He made it so far and didn't even get a send off, just mysteriously gone. It made the whole big deal they made out of Winston's death seem weirder
There's a deleted scene of him dying in the mall.
His name is Jack, he was killed after being dragged off the escalator. His death was cut bc the Audience didn’t notice him on the test viewing which is kinda sad.
he had a death scene but the wires were visible so maybe that’s why they cut it , didn’t know why they didn’t film it again though.
Like that guy in Suicide Squad 2. Milton or something.
Writer 1: "Let's kill some characters off! It'll be dramatic!"
Writer 2: "Should we let the audience get to know them a bit first, form a rudimentary attachment?"
Writer 1: "Nah, total waste of time. Just drag them around for a few scenes and then off them!"
And people wonder why nobody seems to care about fictional characters any more...
being the first person to click on a pitch meeting is TIGHT
Hell yeah
This being the 14th comment is TIGHT
You know you didn't achieve anything here right?
@@thomasmills339 Yeah Yeah Yeah!
Wow wow wow wow. Wow
They just keep getting better in every way. The pitch meetings, not the movies.
Idk, the third movie kinda slapped ngl
@@YodaOnABender The pitch meetings, not the movies? Good. Or we'd have no more videos to watch.
Thank God for anime. Hollywood is so bad now.
@@salmanuel4053 I literally had the word “movie” in my comment mate
The worse the movie, the better the Pitch Meeting. Hollywood is definitely doing their part to make sure Ryan succeeds in life.
"Lightning is more afraid of us than we are of it".... "I think you're thinking of spiders" .... "Well now I am! UGH!"
Never change, Ryan. Never change.
Love to see a pitch meeting for the original 'Starship Troopers'
These fricken kids, I've been waiting for this one! They leave the gun, throw his water, she stands STRAIGHT UP on the breaking glass, they all clearly begging for the sweet embrace of death but the movie just won't give it to them.
Great stuff Ryan George! I love the revisited meetings, you should do all of em! No breaks! Don't even BREATHE until you succeed!
That'll be $5 by the way
That was an amazing reference at the end of your comment lol.
I only have $3
@@DownWithLogic *in Ryan's voice* then get outta here, you...........2 dollar......short.... person?
Wait, who's giving who 5 bucks?
Aiden Gillen has solidify himself as the archetype vilain/traitor/double crosser !
The bit with Script Guy not remembering who Winston is is even funnier if you happen to know the zombies killed a second member of the group and the movie completely ignores it.
This kind of reminds me of how The Walking Dead would occasionally kill off a character they JUST introduced (or just gave lines to) and frame it like we should all be shocked and distraught
@@Corymachine T. Dogg and Olivia say "Hi."
oh no WINSTON 😢
apparently in the mall scene the other guy who disappeared actually had a death scene at first but the test audience hadn’t even noticed the character at first so they didnt care
@@timmyturner7997 And then there's me, constantly counting heads so I can keep track of everyone in the group. And then one just disappears with no explanation. I don't know why they put that kid in the movie if they weren't gonna let him do anything.
Producer guy being absolutely baffled by every new addition was the best
The whole Winston dialogue is so wholesome, i shed a tear for winston.
I love how Ryan is getting more and more unhinged in each new Pitch Meeting
NOW YOURE THINKING OF MILLIPEDES
Yes, same
Wha??? In what way is he "more unhinged" than in previous pitch meetings? He's been far far far more unhinged in older ones. Unless you don't understand the meaning of "unhinged"?
@@hrothgarnogarthis guy is just saying random things he knows people will hit the like button on because it didn’t even make any sense lmao. This video was hardly any different from the previous ones in any way and was still just as funny.
@Brian yeah totally this org comment is nonsensical Ryan is way good at this stuff he's a master to be judged "unhinged" by youtube goonies. Ryan is 👍
I remember watching this one and not understanding a single thing.
Watching a movie and not understanding anything is tight!
I remember what I was eating (mini croissants with jam) while watching this movie but I didn't remember anything about the movie itself other than there being a desert.
yea, so weird. i didnt think it was anything like the book, or they left soooooo much out you wouldnt know what it was unless you read it. they messed that one up pretty good
Usually, I can get a gist of the story from watching the pitch meeting, but for this series, having watched both pitch meetings so far didn't make me understand what the fuck is going on at all lol
I watch pitch meeting instead of the respective movies. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
@@Rosula_D I think you mean dessert because mini croissants with jam are not a desert? :)
4:41 "hey shut up again"
i like how this is evolving :D
3:33 "I took it from this video game called The Last of Us." "Oh that's from a video game, that's never gonna be turned into anything." 😂😂😂
I was looking for this comment
That aged well 😂
I watched the first maze runner pitch meeting a couple weeks ago and wished there was more. Thank you Ryan!
I watched the second maze runner pitch meeting a couple seconds ago and wished there was more.
Ooooh wishing for a specific pitch meeting which comes true is Tight!
I wish they make more Maze runner movies so that Ryan can make pitches for them
@@PaPaCrazy87 wow wow wow...wow
Same! Thank you ry ry
"So they all have to run away again."
[Enthusiastically] "Through a maze?"
"No."
[Disappointed] "Aww..."
I think this one had the most moments in which producer guy gets the rug pulled out a bit from under him! Always amusing.
So, just like fans of the books, eh?
@@Dargonhuman I enjoyed the first movie quite a bit and Im not a movie guy at all. But the moment they got out of the maze, I was like what? Then it just got progressively worse and was total garbage.
I burst at laughing at that
I actually watched that in loop for at least 2 minutes before I continued watching the skit lol. It was just too good.
@@Rar830 I remember watching this movie and I did something I never thought I would. I started complaining to my sister how bad it was and how out of characters everyone was WHILE we were in the theater.
"Is that sarcasm?"
"Oh no no no I'm also just very dumb" 😂
Mad respect to Ryan, he seems to always find someway to keep all his videos entertaining.
Ryan really woke up one day and decided to make freaking Maze Runner 2 into the best pitch meeting yet, he’s ON FIRE in this one
Ah, so that's the scorching!
Funny how he seems to kind of have just stumbled across the series these past few months and simply used it for Pitch Meeting reviews, even though nothing's happening with the franchise at the moment.
@@yarpen26 a new book actually came out recently! And there’s discussion of making it a movie, but I don’t think it will be
Oh no, he's on fire? Is he ok?
I love when the pitch meeting is better than the movie could hope to be
The movies weren’t great but the books were pretty good
The movies were so underwhelming I don't even remember what happened after the second movie.
@@DaNinja60 i beleive the children enter a city and then a zombie outbreak occurs
@@TheElegantPelican how different are they?
Pretty much every Pitch Meeting except John Wick
“Hey shut up” gets me every time. So hilarious.
'Hey, shut up again!' That killed me.
And I laugh EVERY TIME that Producer Guy says 'Oh, no!'
In terms of a Pitch Meeting I'd love to see . . . the first one I ever saw was the one for WIlly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which is a film that I've aways loved - and the pitch meeting had me roaring. I'd love to see what Ryan could do with 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', which is a terrible movie.
You're doing God's work Ryan, bringing this kind of joy to so many people. Thank you!!!
The Ryan's giving each other the bug shudders was amazing.
"Nononono, i'm jus- I'm also very dumb." That like was absolute gold and has me in stitches.
Same here. It's the timing and the acting.
Ok.
"Lightning is more afraid of us then we are of it" that line is pure gold.
Thank you for not having any ad in middle of the video!
its nice to see two great friends who always get the same hair cut at the same time and look the same and act the same
What do you mean? They're like two completely different people!
@@reddersensei But also third cousins.
wtf are you talking about? one of them wears glasses, they look nothing alike
You can tell they're different people. One of them says, "Whoops" and the other days "Whoopsie"
Can't get more night and day than that
@@SilvaaVitor Beat me too it
There might not be much "maze", "runner", "the", "scorch" or "trials" in this "maze runner the scorch trials pitch meeting", but there certainly is a lot of pitch meeting in it!
No, it actually included a lot of the
Loving all these pitch meetings so much, I can't stop watching them
"is that sarcasm?"
"No, no, no. I'm also very dumb."
Mood
"If you just kind of never answer questions, people will keep coming back for sequels."
Welcome to the movie industry 😔
It's like a mystery box.
Previously this is what distinguished movies from all the netflix, etc, shows that just start and then go on and on with little to no direction.
The JJ Abrams approach has been proven to work. 😂
It reminds me of another pitch meeting where one of the lines were, "I'm a good writer." 😆 I hope that ends up in more pitch meetings
@@hamm0155 Lost predated Netflix originals by quite a bit, I think.
Not knowing this movie even had a sequel is tight
2 of them even!
I read the OG trilogy back in the day, and I couldn't tell you a single plot point from the third one other than, "rock fall, things happen, various disappointments occur" so you ain't missing much. >.>
@@valkyrie-randgris The third book had the most plot yet it was the shortest. That's never a good sign.
😂😂😂😂😂
Not knowing it actually had a trilogy is incredibly mind-blowingly tight!
Hey, Ryan. Just wanted to let you know that the fam and I love your work SO MUCH. It's just so consistently funny. I hope that you enjoy making it as much as everyone out here enjoys watching it. And, just for the record, "Oh, pretentious artist ghosts are tight!" is, as far as I can tell, the best line ever written. Shakespeare, schmakespeare.
As a barber, I love seeing the evolution of Ryan’s haircuts. He has got super straight fine hair which is one of the hardest to get right and find a style that will work. I like this new look.
"Oh no Winston.... Who's Winston"...
That's gold 😊😊
"I'm kinda shocked that kid's still alive."
I see what you did there.
Lol I literally just wrote the same thing!
I heard story about a guy who's entire left side was ripped off by a shark. Everyone kept saying he was all right...
Ahhhh, I entirely missed that. Lol. Thanks!
I'm a bit slow on the uptake. What did he do?
@@antonnurwald5700 The previous reference to Min Ho (spelling?) was that he was struck by lightning and that he didn't die, of course. So, the "shocked" he hasn't died is a reference to the previous joke.
Man is crazy how your pitch meetings keep gettin' even beeter, love you, Ryan!
4:15 Fun fact: In German cinema cut, right after the zombie fell, they cut directly to when the kids leave the building, cutting out the whole making-out scene. I always wondered how the girl came back into the building. It was like this short time sleep where you wake up without noticing you fell asleep, but you realize that plot gap.
I love that Ryan is getting time to make Pitch Meetings of older movies. The amount of content we could be given is just huge.
I'd love to see Ryan take on the "Divergent" series as well!
Wait, those were different series?
omg yes
Divergent was even more about nothing then this movie
@@marcbrown382Wasn't it about anxiety over taking the SAT?
Ai is getting so good. I could barely tell that wasn't actually Ryan speaking at the end.
0:35 literally every pitch meeting for every movie or tv show the last several years.
“I’m kind of surprised Minho’s still alive”
Well the reason Minho is still alive after everything he’s been through is because he has a little something we like to call “Plot Armour”
Something Newt didn’t have
Plot Curse because everything bad keeps happening to him 😅
Gotta keep him alive for the Chinese market.
@@dawnfire82 He's Korean...
@@thesullivanstreetproject Hollywood doesn't care. They're ticking boxes.
I'd love to see a pitch meeting for the Princess Bride!
it's too good. wouldn't work.
@@alexm2889 A challenge!
That would be inconceivable!
As you wish
Maybe this would be a bad idea. The whole pitch meeting could become The Battle of Catchphrases.
"I'm kinda shocked that kids still alive"
At the back of the room: I GET IT!
"Was that sarcasm?"
"No, I'm also very dumb"
I still find it hilarious that in the maze runner world, the actual cure turned out to be Thomas's blood... Which means that the scientists thought it was a better idea to send these teenagers to a hell maze than to test some of their blood
It wasn't simply a cure beforehand. He had to be put in the maze and go through those stuff for it to be a cure
They're so stupid they thought the cure to a zombie virus was in the brain and stressing out teenagers was going to make a cure. Even though the virus was probabely blood based. The most basic logic would go. Virus. Well blood. That's what you test for stuff. Test blood! This is beyond Darwin Award stupid. On every level.
@@v4vun That makes absolutely no sense. How the *fuck* would running through a dumbass maze synthesize their blood into a cure?.
The whole point of this experiment in the books is that WICKED doesn't know why they're immune to the Flare. The Flare isn't a zombie virus; it's a virus that breaks down the brain and causes severe mania in the victims. They're still alive and breathing and concious, but they're going insane. WICKED knows that something about the immunes' brains renders them immune to the virus, so they run them through these experiments to test different reactions and see how it responds to the virus. Then they'd use that data to synthesize a cure.
@@v4vun wait what? running thru a maze changes your blood? this might be the worst book in history
@@dejvo9997 It wasn't blood, but enzymes that the immune system of the immunes produces, the maze was a way to accelerate that by putting them in a stressful situation
"That's always code for death" 😂😂😂 omg these pitch meetings never fail to surprise me
I was going to leave a cement, but I can't find the cement section so I'll just have to leave a comment here instead. Great Patch Meeting, as always! 👍
Y'all should do a total "opposite skit" "Well that's going to be real easy..." Actually sir, it's going to be really hard, really a big inconvenience..."
Watching a Pitch Meeting as soon as possible is super easy barley an inconvenience!
Take barley and throw it in a pot with some water and it's minestrone an inconvenience
@@RRRRRRP Now you got a stew goin
OMG, I never saw this comment under a pitch meeting before. You, Sir, are a creative genius.
Minestrone? Souper easy!
@@countluke2334 Never asked for your opinion, so please get off my back about this.
I love Vent Boy.
He's so *e-vent-ful.*
get out....
I used to be an ad-vent-urer like you...
When I first saw this movie in high school I loved Vent Boy because he's gorgeous :3 lol
This sounds like the most infuriating movie ever. Thanks for taking one for the team, Ryan.
honestly a really fun film tho it just gets a bit confusing with the whole cure thing and that stuff
still prefer maze runner 2 to the book
@ArenVrem no i do like reading it's just i found the scorch trials book to be a little confusing. i did like the cranks in the book bc they were really disturbing and stuff, but at the end battle the bulb monsters came out of nowhere. i thought they would have to fight a horde of cranks or smth
These guys really showed up and said let's PRETEND to make a movie and maybe we'll become rich
Almost every problem/plothole with the movie series is a result of deviating from the book or is directly addressed in the books.
The first movie is only like 70% accurate to the book, the second completely changes whole critical plotpoints, and the final movie has essentially nothing to do with the third book. One of the worst book adaptation movie series ever.
"Is that sarcasm?"
"No, I'm also kind of dumb."
Comedy Gold haha
4:03 This interaction is pure gold
Seen all the pitch meetings to date, this one may be my new favorite. Way to keep the quality writing/delivery going, fella.
So many great suggestions for movies here! I'm sure you're not short of content to cover, but an AVP or AVP Requiem Pitch Meeting would be tight!
Thanks for making these! Always one of the highlights of my week!
(Overusing exclamation points is also tight!)
First off Ryan, so so happy that you chose the Maze Runner franchise cause it’s one that I (along with Plenty of others I’m sure) suggested to you so thanks so much for being so interactive with your audience. Secondly…..after these can you do the Scary Movie franchise? Once again it’s a series that provides multiple videos for content and I have No doubts that your comedic take on the absolute absurdities of these movies would be hilarious!
@@response_team0001 ???!!! 😲
Dude....you still manage to make me cry laughing after all these pitches. Appreciate the hours and work you out in bro. 💯
Dropping everything I am currently doing to watch a new pitch meeting is super easy barely inconvenience!
1:12 the fact that I remembered wicked, proves some trauma isn't blocked by the subconscious.
Lol, great video as always. I've been asking for "The Predator" (one of the worst recent movies ever created) and the "Scream" series. Hope I see that one day! Take care Ryan.
Ryan, you should totally make a pitch for the new D&D movie!
Can’t wait to see people running mazes
*slaps DVD case* this bad boy can fit so many mazes in it
I haven't seen these movies, but this is the funniest Pitch Meeting in a long time! Good job!
2:45 when we got to that scene, my 50 years old aunt who is a bit of a mother hen exclaimed : "why does he trow the flask ?! Never throw away an empty flask you idiot ! Keep it for when you'll find water !!" And then when the storm scene came up she said "What did I tell you ? There he could have refilled his flask !" 😂
1:49 when you see a new pitch meeting upload
1:02 it worked out for thanos.
I saw both of these movies. Can confirm, 1 was confusing and left the viewer hanging, and 2 was...a thing. Kinda. I don't know. It's confusing and stupid and I don't care anymore. I need some ice cream to make me feel better.
Hey shut up is quickly becoming one of my favorite pitch meeting catchphrases
i always look to thursdays because of videos like these that are hilarious and has ryan george
Ryan uploading is tight!
2:18 Don't forget that one character actually dies there, but the scene was cut, meaning the group just get out of the mall with one less dude and no one talks about it
I swear I have NEVER seen a movie go so far from the source material, not a single frame corresponds to the book, we're speaking is Dragon Ball Evolution level of adaptation
Who? You mean Jack?
“So you have a second Maze Runner movie for me”
I immediately backed out to find the pitch meeting I missed for the first one. Can’t have spoilers for the pitch meetings of the movies I’m never going to watch.
That ending has me choking...🤣 The open mouth 😝🤪
I think people don't give enough credit to ... the credits
They're really awesome (avoiding the tight line, check), keep going some of us don't skip them and love them
These books are seriously so good. Cramming 5 books into 3 subpar movies is weird. They left out things that kept me reading
I agree.
And I add this. Sadly most book adaptations are missing too much, they should focus on getting it right and more people would spend money to see the movie.
@@74jojo unfortunately book adaptations are usually just a quick money grab or just borrowing the name with a completely different story
The books are hot garbage... they would have been impossible to make into good films.
I liked first 2 films, but the 3rd was horrible. Is/Are the final book(s) as bad?
5 wow assumed 3...
Funny how 3 movies get stretched into 4 movies...
Our world 😅
I'm actually a fan of this franchise in both book and film form and I'll be honest I forgot everything about this movie which is also a testament to how little it follows the book
"Was that sarcasm?"
"No no no no no, I'm just, I'm also very dumb."
Lol, what a great line.
Please do a pitch meeting on:
#1 - The Room
#2 - Birdemic: Shock and Terror
#3 - Battlefield Earth
We put Ryan through all those, he might need therapy.
@@NeoConnor1 Or he could become an earth loving, environmentally friendly scientologist who lives in San Francisco!
So.... where's the upside?
I can't focus on the Pitch Meeting because I'm mesmerized by Ryan George's slick haircut. It's TIGHT!
Watching these back to back is tight!
0:55 best new take on a classic
The spider joke killed me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Such perfect timing. I just finished these movies. They were fanstastic. One could say watching them was super easy, barely and inconvenience.
Me: I bet it's gonna be hard to make an outro if you're too busy, Ryan
Ryan: It's actually super easy, barely an inconvenience!
This might be my favorite ever Pitch Meeting. Your performance was TIGHT!
This channel is a maze, and the ONLY WAY OUT is to do a pitch meetings for a classic film, like Wizard of Oz or Casablanca or something. If you would, please, I think it'd be really fun.
no he can't do actual good m0vies!!
You know, that "hey shut up" thing appears to work so well here that I've tried it in several places and it doesn't seem to have the same efficacy that you would expect. The IRS, the police, a large angry guy I bumped into at a bar... none of them responded positively. I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong. It was a real inconvenience.
Hey! It's my favorite enemy of visual filmmaking, Teal and Orange! And I'm still lobbying for a pitch meeting for *Max Headroom.* It should only take you about 20 minutes to do a video.
Doing an evil monologue instead of bieng pragmatic is TIGHT
The best was Ozymandias in watchmen
@@whispersmith ozymandias did the opposite of that...
@@whispersmith The whole reason Ozymandias could afford to monologue was because he'd already been pragmatic enough to ensure that his monologuing couldn't make a difference either way. He did the opposite of the guy in this movie.
Man, do I love that twist in Watchmen though. I wish more villains would do shit like that.
Regarding the lightning that appears to be actively chasing them: In the book it’s implied, and outright speculated by Thomas, that the lighting is being artificially created by WICKED. The film keeps this scene but without any hints or theorizing about its origin. One reason for this change is that the WICKED org of the movie doesn't have the level of technology required as the book counterpart does.
I went and rewatched the movie for the first time in years just to properly enjoy the pitch meeting, and I think I’ll start doing that with all of them from now on!!
That casting comment at the end was brilliant!
Sometimes life is a Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials