

We think he's kind of got something.' So I watched his tape and was like 'Wait a minute, I've seen this kid before.' I looked him up online and there was one picture of him with a totally shaved head and it's this sweet vulnerable looking kid and I was like 'Whoa, interesting.' I said, 'Wait a minute, he's just so familiar' and I looked back at my old audition tapes, which we had thousands of, and there's Dylan. So finally Fox says 'We just did this movie, The Internship. It's about vulnerability up front and then he comes out of it and comes into his own and then the next movies are about the leader that emerges from the group. He had Teen Wolf hair and I couldn't see past that and so we were looking for our Thomas and it's a tough role to make, because he comes in as a boy and he leaves as a man, so it can't be like this badass action star that comes into this movie. It was a big learning experience there, because I overlooked him because of his hair. I saw him early on, very early on and I overlooked him. Dylan O'Brien, the lead role, was initially rejected by Ball.

Don McManus as Masked Man, an armed soldier who rescues the Gladersįor the role of Teresa, Kaya Scodelario was Ball's first choice as she was 'fantastic' and because he loved her in the TV show Skins.Blake Cooper as Chuck, a very young Glader.Patricia Clarkson as Ava Paige, the Head of W.C.K.D.Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Newt, second-in-command of the Gladers.Aml Ameen as Alby, the first male to enter the Glade and the leader of the Gladers.Kaya Scodelario as Teresa, the first and only female Glader.

Dylan O'Brien as Thomas, the last male to enter the Glade.Paige notes that the experiment is successful the survivors are now entering Phase Two. The scene ends with the supposedly-dead scientists meeting in a room. It flies over a vast desert wasteland and approaches a ruined city. Masked armed men then rush in and take the rest of the group to a helicopter. Having been stung by a Griever, he insists they must stay in the Maze and aims at Thomas, but is pierced through the chest by Minho's spear, but not before Chuck is fatally shot.
