The Maze Runner Finale Not Split In Two Flicks...

While The Maze Runner director Wes Ball prepares the just-announced follow-up to the boffo box office hit "The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" for Fox--he says that the goal is to turn the book trilogy into a film trilogy and NOT stretch out the final story like the Harry Potter film series "Twilight Series," The Hunger Games film series and Divergent film franchise before it.

 Speaking with Digital Spy, Ball says:

"I think three is the number; beginning, middle, end, that's it. Four? I think there's something off about four. For me, if I have any say in it, there's three movies basically... We're not going to [split a book in two], no way. I think three movies is the right number..."

There's no word yet if Ball will return to helm the film version of the final book in author James Dashner's young adult novel trilogy. should it go forward.

'Maze' continues earning at the box-office, having made over $200 million worldwide from a $34 million production budget.