Scored entertainment-first on WhatSphere's content-balance model 5
Its director stated on the record that "i hope that it'll appeal to people who grew up on Goonies and Raiders, I want it to feel timeless, so it will endure" 1. Its director stated on the record that "90% of the job is casting, I wanted real actors, not just pretty faces — casting director Denise Chamian steered us in the right direction" 2. The adaptation scores 85 of 100 for faithfulness to that source 3. Its narrative-universality assessment registers 8 of 10 4. Taken together, the content-balance model places it entertainment-first at 14 of 100 5.
- 1Creator statementdirector: "I hope that it'll appeal to people who grew up on Goonies and Raiders. I want it to feel timeless, so it will endure."Den of Geek, 2014 source ↗
- 2Creator statementdirector: "90% of the job is casting. I wanted real actors, not just pretty faces — casting director Denise Chamian steered us in the right direction."Collider, 2014 source ↗
- 3FaithfulnessFaithfulness 85 of 100.WhatSphere faithfulness checklist, score_version 1
- 4Narrative universalityNarrative universality 8 of 10; identity centrality incidental.WhatSphere content assessment. Narrative universality 8/10 -> advocacy signal 22
- 5Content balanceAdvocacy 14 of 100, tier entertainment-first.WhatSphere content-balance model, score_version 1. Narrative universality 8/10 -> advocacy signal 22
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Age: 36 — leans younger
Quadrant Scores
Audience Representation
Racial audience withheld
Only 55% of the cast has a researched race, so these scores stay blank.
Why this is blank
A partial classification would pull origin-race scores toward the researched slice and away from the cast as it is. The nine audience scores are withheld instead of shown as zero. Zero would mean no audience, which is not what a thin cast record says.
Faithfulness
Advocacy
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| Title | Author | Type | Year | Purchase link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Maze Runner | James Dashner | novel | 2009 |
Synopsis
A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society, he begins to uncover clues that may lead to escape and the truth behind their confinement.
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Lineage and popularity
Open Library
Faithfulness 85. Copied from title_sphere_scores for display beside source lineage. Joins do not write this value.
What Changed from the Source
The production decisions behind this adaptation, as recorded — original versus on screen.
Source faithfulness: 85/100
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Advocacy Over Time in Action
The average advocacy score of Action titles by release year, with this title marked. Higher is more advocacy-driven.
| Year | Average advocacy | Titles |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 3 | 2 |
| 1965 | 4 | 3 |
| 1966 | 0 | 4 |
| 1968 | 2 | 2 |
| 1970 | 0 | 2 |
| 1971 | 0 | 4 |
| 1972 | 3 | 2 |
| 1973 | 2 | 9 |
| 1975 | 0 | 3 |
| 1977 | 4 | 2 |
| 1979 | 2 | 3 |
| 1980 | 4 | 5 |
| 1981 | 4 | 3 |
| 1982 | 1 | 5 |
| 1983 | 3 | 7 |
| 1984 | 4 | 11 |
| 1985 | 2 | 7 |
| 1986 | 2 | 10 |
| 1987 | 2 | 14 |
| 1988 | 1 | 4 |
| 1989 | 1 | 10 |
| 1990 | 1 | 5 |
| 1991 | 1 | 9 |
| 1992 | 2 | 8 |
| 1993 | 2 | 11 |
| 1994 | 2 | 14 |
| 1995 | 3 | 11 |
| 1996 | 1 | 9 |
| 1997 | 4 | 13 |
| 1998 | 2 | 10 |
| 1999 | 3 | 13 |
| 2000 | 1 | 11 |
| 2001 | 2 | 20 |
| 2002 | 3 | 17 |
| 2003 | 4 | 14 |
| 2004 | 3 | 19 |
| 2005 | 4 | 18 |
| 2006 | 3 | 23 |
| 2007 | 3 | 18 |
| 2008 | 3 | 22 |
| 2009 | 4 | 9 |
| 2010 | 7 | 8 |
| 2011 | 5 | 12 |
| 2012 | 9 | 10 |
| 2013 | 7 | 16 |
| 2014 | 10 | 9 |
| 2015 | 10 | 16 |
| 2016 | 20 | 9 |
| 2017 | 14 | 17 |
| 2018 | 15 | 20 |
| 2019 | 16 | 18 |
| 2020 | 14 | 13 |
| 2021 | 14 | 25 |
| 2022 | 20 | 32 |
| 2023 | 17 | 25 |
| 2024 | 12 | 32 |
| 2025 | 5 | 35 |
| 2026 | 5 | 30 |
| This title (2014) | 14 | 1 |
● This title (2014): advocacy 14 · explore Action →
Cast & Crew
Jessica Navran (director) · Enrique Chediak (director)
Made for the Same Audience
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Same Audience, Lower Advocacy
Made for a similar audience but scored lower on advocacy — the closest less-message-driven picks, ranked by audience-sphere proximity.
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