The Maze Runner sequel welcomes lots of new faces as well, including Rosa Salazar (Brenda) and Giancarlo Esposito (Jorge).
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Ball continued by announcing that he was thankful he was asked to direct all three films… But that was a simple premise: If they slowed down or stopped, the bus would blow up, and Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock with it.
At first they seem to be swept up by rebels who are taking them to some safe paradise, but things aren’t what they seem, so the kids break free and set off across crumbling city sets that look directly lifted from the “Divergent” movies, seeking some refuge.
The Maze Runner series is an adaptation of the James Dashner young adult novels and has seen Ball at the helm from the very beginning.
At the movie premiere earlier this month at Seoul’s Gangnam Megabox Coex, two lead actors from the film series, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Ki Hong Lee, walked down the red carpet, welcomed by a number of teen fans. The first film got the boys out of the maze and free of the diabolical clutches of WCKD, the government division behind the maze experiment. With Thomas & Co. constantly pursued by either WCKD’s Ava Paige (Patricia Clarkson) and Janson (Aidan Gillen), various underworld criminals, and/or the goo-dribbling undead, Scorch maintains the unrelenting pace of the original.
Yes, WCKD. As in, “wicked”. Let us know in the comments section below! Subtlety is not a strong suit here, but the name is truth in advertising, if nothing else.
Thomas and Teresa and the others didn’t agree. I really trust how we’ve taken elements from the second and third book, and we’ve kind of rearranged them; we’ve left things out here and there that may not necessarily work for the screen.
This movie also goes way too long.
The trailer shows Thomas and his team escaping from the maze facility they were trapped in by W.C.K.D. Can they traverse the Scorch and truly be free or will dark terrors force them to submit? As deserts do.
There’s a huge logic glitch here that remains to be addressed – if these young people are all that valuable, why were they ever risked in the Maze?
The film as a standalone piece is going to entertain a lot of people and hit its target audience right in the gut. Are you excited to see it?
Hurry up and wait, did we say?
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Ball also squashed rumors saying the last book in Dashner’s series will be split into two films.
