Following The Maze Runner, he also snagged a crucial supporting role in television series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the critically acclaimed comedy created by the 30 Rock team of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. In one, Jorge plays the entirety of Patsy Cline’s “Walkin’ After Midnight” over a loudspeaker during a firefight; in another, Thomas and Brenda take some sort of hallucinogen and stumble around a decadent post-apocalyptic rave.
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Much like this year’s Mad Max – a film which grows in my memory with each passing month -Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is essentially just one long scene, bookended by a minimum of necessary exposition. In between battling diseased zombies and other foes, Thomas becomes embroiled in a romantic triangle, experiences a drug trip, and is forced to make tricky moral choices without knowing all the facts. In the scorch, we enter horror movie territory for a few scenes. Comparing it to one of the creaky, patchwork vehicles from Mad Max: Fury Road is tempting but unnecessary, given The Scorch Trials’ frequent, unfortunate resemblance to one of the year’s most indelible movies. “I was very shy”.
What have you discovered about Teresa during this movie? “That’s the biggest ripple effect that we had to deal with, because that’s so integral to the second book; how they communicate while they’re separated”, he explained.
Chicken House is planning an extensive marketing campaign for The Fever Code, including online advertising, social media activity and print advertising in cinemas, WH Smith and Waterstones.
Honestly the amount of running these kids do is ridiculous.
In Korea, the movie set a staggering record with 2.8 million viewers in a market outside of the U.S. This success was attributed to the appearance of Korean-American actor Lee Ki Hong who played Minho, a powerful keeper of the runners.
Nonetheless, as we all know, things don’t always go as planned and a black sheep in the group complicates matters for everyone. Does she come out of the dorm with them now? Wes Ball’s propulsive and refreshingly unsentimental chase through a diabolical labyrinth killed off main characters in a clinical fashion and cleverly negated the need for back stories by burdening the teenage runners with amnesia. We learn practically nothing about the world, and an impressive cast is left to run around in circles while the studio preps the next film for them. I do know who she is myself, but it’s something I’ve kept from all the boys. The relationships you see on screen between the characters and the dynamic and everything you see is real. Like the first instalment, this sequel, also directed by Wes Ball and starring most of the same young heroes, is sufficiently angst-ridden for its tween and teen core.
KS: It’s interesting, and I’ve thought about it a lot.
I’m not entirely sure what he was going on about.
The original didn’t spend quite enough time developing the relationships between the group of youngsters, and it is again guilty of that, though has the benefit of us having spent a whole film with these characters now. It also seems to refer to the disease which has turned many of its citizens into furious zombies (the running rather than shuffling kind). I’ll hold my hands up and say I’m the most unhealthy member of cast.
However, there is a honest and straightforward modesty to all things Maze Runner that grabs you from the get-go. It’s been extremely tough, but it’s nice that we have such a good supportive group. I’d actually love to.
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“So I really put the pressure on myself to do the best I can, so other Asian-Americans won’t be disappointed by my portrayal of the character”.
