"The Maze Runner" will hit the theaters on Sept. 19, and while the film features a male protagonist unlike "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent," lead actor Dylan O'Brien is positive that the new franchise could exist among other film series adapted from young adult novels.

Based on the first book in the young-adult post-apocalyptic science fiction trilogy of the same name by James Dashner, "The Maze Runner" follows the story of teenager Thomas (O'Brien) who wakes up to find himself without any memory of his past in a giant maze called The Glade, which is already inhabited by a group of similarly amnesiac boys, working to plan an escape. The routine of The Glade has gone erratic since his arrival, and it becomes apparent that Thomas is the key to their great escape, according to Zap2it.

Analysts foresee an opening in the mid-$30 million range based on tracking and social media momentum. Though projections of Fox, the distributor of the film, are only about $20 million, The Wrap reported.

On the other hand, O'Brien, 23, who is best known for his role of Stiles in the hit MTV supernatural series "Teen Wolf," "almost seemed blissfully unaware" of how big the movie could go at the box office, BuzzFeed reported.

 "I never thought about the size of the movie," he told BuzzFeed. "Cut to a year later and the first question I'm getting from everyone is, 'So this movie is gonna blow up, what are you going to do?' It never felt that way."

"It was an underdog script and an under-the-radar project with all relatively up-and-coming actors - we don't have anyone in the movie like Kate Winslet [Divergent] or Donald Sutherland or Phillip Seymour Hoffman [The Hunger Games]," he explained. "So it always felt super small to us, but we always knew it could exist amongst those because it's so good."

"The Maze Runner" is directed by Wes Ball from a script by Noah Oppenheim. It also stars Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter, Patricia Clarkson, Ki Hong Lee and Aml Ameen.