Don't Be Left Behind: “The Maze Runner" Now In Cinemas!
Can W.C.K.D. be good? Find out in the thrilling and
out-of-your-breath action adventure film “The Maze Runner” starring a group of
amaze-ing young boys and a girl – headed by Dylan O’Brien, Thomas
Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter, Aml Ameen, Blake Cooper and Kaya
Scodelario.
Directed
by Wes Ball, the movie opened in Philippine cinemas (last September 17) with
fever-pitch anticipation from movie enthusiasts especially from the young adult
crowd from whom the book has enjoyed immense success catapulting it to one of
YA bestselling series of all time.
In
the movie, Thomas (O’Brien) wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of
other boys, they call it the Glade, he has no memory of the outside world other
than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Within the glade stands a massive series of
walls that forms a dangerous maze where their only hope to escape lies at the
end of each cluster, but the walls change every single day, as such they assign
runners, the fastest of the bunch to track and take mental notes of the maze’s
secrets.
“The
Maze Runner” also brims with a cast full of talent within its action-packed and
visually stunning production, director Ball and producer Wyck Godfrey assembled
an impressive cast to form a highly functional society as they perform their
daily jobs, look out for each other and engage in power struggles as they try
to solve the mystery of the Maze. Godfrey says, “The casting was one of the
most exciting things about the project.
The actors really believed in this world, and we went far afield to find
them.”
Thomas, played by Dylan O’Brien is
the boy who takes that step forward when everybody else takes a step back. He’s curious and comes to learn that he is
just one of many who have come up on that elevator once a month over a three
year period.
The leader of these Gladers is Alby,
who’s the closest thing to a father figure.
“Alby is the main dude,” says Ball.
“He was the first Glader, the first boy sent up the elevator, and he had
to survive an entire month by himself not knowing where he was and without any
help. Then the next guy showed up. Alby figured out that order and discipline
were necessary to survive in this world.
He’s very protective of it.”
Thomas’s nemesis in the Glade is
Gally. Smart and intimidating, Gally
wants to maintain the status quo and clashes with the new arrival. “But Gally and Thomas are really two sides of
the same coin,” notes Ball. “Thomas
fully embraces and charges into the unknown and Gally is all about
self-preservation and keeping things safe and normal.”
Alby’s lieutenant, Newt, is played
by Thomas Brodie-Sangster (voice of Ferb in “Phineas and Ferb”), who appears in
the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones” and first gained attention for his
performance in “Love, Actually.” Newt
walks with a limp that’s not fully explained because it’s something he’d prefer
not to talk about. Nevertheless,
Brodie-Sangster says the character is “the fun one of the group, the one that
everyone gets along with. The Gladers
come to Newt with their problems because they like and trust him.”
British actress Kaya Scodelario
plays the only young woman among the Gladers, Teresa, who has a mysterious
connection with Thomas. Having made her name with the UK TV series Skins,
Scodelario impressed the filmmakers by being “one of the guys,” as Godfrey puts
it. “She’s badass, which is what you need to be if you’re going to be thrust
into the world of the Glade with all these young men.”
The elite among the Gladers are
called Runners, whose athleticism propels them through the Maze each day, which
helps them compile a map of the foreboding structure and, maybe, figure out a
way to escape. Their captain is Minho,
played by Ki Hong Lee. The young actor
grew to understand his position of leadership among the Gladers in a very
individual way. “I looked at the Marines
and the Army and, and I consider Minho like a general of the Gladers,” Lee
explains, “It’s his job to rally the troops.”
“The Maze Runner” is now playing in
cinemas across the Phils. from 20th Century Fox distributed by
Warner Bros.
Check our movie review for "The Maze Runner" here.
Check our movie review for "The Maze Runner" here.
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