Paesano was involved in the film, much before its production so that he could create the sketches based on the story and further develop the music to suit its visuals.

He and Ball were inspired by Steven Spielberg, John Williams and James Cameron's works and the creative vision they share between them were similar, which resulted him to score for music for the film.

[1][5] James Southall of Movie Wave wrote "The Maze Runner comes really close to being brilliant – almost all of it is well-composed and vibrant, there are interesting ideas and it’s refreshingly some distance away from the clueless Remote Control soundalikes that tend to dominate these films today.

"[6] Writing for Renowned for Sound, Kirsten Maree reviewed it as a "classic horror movie score that will leave you feeling as scared and trapped as its characters" and further called it "cunningly eerie, shamelessly unforgiving and hauntingly beautiful".

[7] Filmtracks.com wrote "Paesano treats many of the character moments in The Maze Runner with comparatively light tones for acoustic guitar and woodwinds, allowing too much contrast between the unbridled explosions of noise in the action material and the needed emotional connections of the softer portions.

His electronically manipulated elements are fine, as is the occasional choral infusion, but the ensemble does have the resounding feeling in the recording that he was seemingly seeking; as such, the whole is a bit flat.