Jorge Maze Runner: Who He Is, Who Plays Him and What Happens

Jorge is one of two locals of the Scorch, the burned and ruined desert, whom Thomas and the surviving Gladers meet after they flee the facility run by WCKD in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015). He is credited simply as Jorge, and the credits give him no other name, so the question of his real name comes down to the actor: Giancarlo Esposito plays him.

Esposito is billed fourth in The Scorch Trials, behind Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario and Thomas Brodie-Sangster, and seventh in Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018). That is a high billing for a character who joins the story only in the second film.

He is not among the top billed cast of the maze runner 2014, which stays inside the Glade and the maze itself. The Scorch Trials, released in the US on September 18, 2015 and running 131 minutes, is where the world widens. It is certified PG-13 in the US and 12A in the UK, and John Paesano scored it, as he did all three films. For how the films compare with the books, see maze runner books vs movies. For the full list of names, see maze runner characters and maze runner cast.

Jorge's closest tie on screen is with Brenda, played by Rosa Salazar, since the two arrive in the story together as the pair of locals who join the Gladers in the Scorch. Salazar is billed seventh in The Scorch Trials and sixth in The Death Cure, so the two characters sit next to each other in the credits of the final film. Brenda has her own profile at brenda maze runner.

His link to thomas maze runner is practical: Jorge travels on with Thomas and the other Gladers toward the mountains. The Right Arm is where that journey leads, and the camp is destroyed in the WCKD raid, in which minho maze runner is taken away.

The betrayal belongs to teresa maze runner, who gives away the camp's location to WCKD. The organization that attacks the camp, and the woman who runs it, are covered in wicked maze runner and ava paige maze runner.

In my opinion, Jorge's best moments come from the shape he gives the middle of the story rather than from any single scene: the meeting with Brenda and Jorge is the point where the Scorch gets people in it. The first film stays in the Glade and the maze, and the second opens with Janson's facility, so the arrival of two locals marks a change in the series.

The crossing toward the mountains is the stretch where he is most present. It follows the loss of Winston to the infection, and it could be argued that the film needs company for the Gladers at that point. Esposito's fourth billing, behind Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario and Thomas Brodie-Sangster, at least shows how prominent the role is on paper.

The arrival at the Right Arm is the other moment worth watching for, because it ends with the raid, Mary Cooper's death and Teresa's betrayal being exposed. Perhaps Jorge is better remembered as a companion on the road to that turn than as a participant in it. If you want to see where the story goes next, maze runner the death cure picks up with the rescue of Minho, and maze runner movies in order shows where all three films sit.