It's a better movie than the first one because it's bigger." "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" hits UK cinemas on Thursday and U.S. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials has long and violent sequences and many violent deaths, including executions and suicide. "We were excited to have Wes back because we knew he could do something amazing with this story and I think he has. It's a relatively low budget for what we're shooting and we are a little family," Scodelario said. "What was nice about it was that it never felt that big. British actress Kaya Scodelario, who will star in the next "Pirates of the Caribbean" film, and "Love Actually" and "Game of Thrones" actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster also return in the sequel. "But (we also tried to) still hold onto the characters, the emotion and all that fun stuff that I think people ultimately connected with in the first one." "The Maze Runner" was made for around $30 million and went on to gross more than $340 million worldwide. "We tried to top ourselves here, especially on the action and the adventure side of things," director Wes Ball said in an interview. "Teen Wolf" star Dylan O'Brien reprises his role as Thomas in "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials", which picks up from where last year's sci-fi adventure ended - with the so-called Gladers having escaped the maze and now confronting new obstacles and mysteries. What would escape sequences do without a convenient network of air ducts? Still, whenever a scene requires a precisely timed window smash or door slam, Ball and his cast overcome clichés with gusto.LONDON (Reuters) - The teenagers from the young adult thriller "The Maze Runner", adapted from the James Dashner books, return to the silver screen this month in a sequel to the dystopian film. In this next chapter of the epic Maze Runner saga, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Ball’s go-for-broke enthusiasm enlivens conventional action-movie setups. Upon escaping the maze, Thomas and his friends are shifted to a facility run by Mr Janson. The Gladers’ esprit de corps extends to the director. He’s buoyant and urgent enough to hold his own in a cast full of scene-stealers, especially Thomas Brodie-Sangster’s hyper-alert Newt, and Salazar’s sly, sexy Brenda, who might be a better match for Thomas than his sometime soul mate, the distant and troubled Teresa (Kaya Scodelario). Thomas keeps his priorities straight by staying true to his band of younger brothers, and O’Brien grows into the role of leader without succumbing to bogus gravitas. Thomas and company must crack these mysteries on the run, while gauging the value or virtue of some rococo supporting characters, notably the scavenging entrepreneur Jorge (Giancarlo Esposito) and his resourceful ward Brenda (Rosa Salazar), who use chained Cranks as guard dogs. Nowlin, who adapted James Dashner’s book, never overexplain anything, including the teenagers’ status as “immunes,” the appearance of zombie-like creatures called Cranks or the extent of WCKD’s influence (“WCKD is good” is the series’ most piquant catchphrase). This movie is 2 hr 11 min in duration and is available in English language. What ensues is a prison break followed by a nonstop chase, first through a devastated city and then through a desert so vast that the mountain home of a rebel army seems farther away the closer they get.īall and T.S. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials was released on and was directed by Wes Ball. But Aris (Jacob Lofland), who escaped from another maze, soon convinces Thomas that these kids aren’t going anywhere, except into high-tech body bags. There an ingratiating commander, Janson (Aidan Gillen), promises they will ship out in small groups to a new home where they’ll be safe from WCKD’s clutches. The survivors are now hustled out of helicopters and into a subterranean bunker already filled with veterans of other mazes. That sense is the closest Thomas comes to a superhero talent in this tough, unpretentious series, and he exercises it again in “The Scorch Trials.” It starts right after the first film ends, when Thomas led a few Gladers out of the maze and into a lab, where they learned via video from the enigmatic Ava Paige (Patricia Clarkson) that the World Catastrophe Killzone Department (WCKD, pronounced “Wicked”) had been testing them to find an antidote for a global cataclysm called “The Flare.” SIGN UP for the free Indie Focus movies newsletter > Nevertheless, with the final chapter, The Maze Runner: The Death Cure, already scheduled for release in 2017, its easy to imagine The Scorch Trials wont skirt from setting up the third installment - potentially at the expense of a standalone movie experience.The first film was memorable because of the mystery and unique setup surrounding the maze.
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