Run or Burn in "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" (Opens September 9)
The Gladers are now out of the mysterious maze from
the first movie adaptation of James Dashner’s highly successful series “The
Maze Runner.” In the second adaptation
of the most-anticipated sequel of the young adult book of the same title, “Maze
Runner: The Scorch Trials,” the Gladers
are now out in a ravaged, burned out and broken down world racing through
sandstorms, evading flares and battling terrifying creatures known as Cranks.
Director
Wes Ball is once again at the helm of the second instalment “Maze Runner: The
Scorch Trials” from which his first adaptation “The Maze Runner” grossed more than
$340 million worldwide. While “The Maze
Runner” was about escape, “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” is about a journey. Explains director Wes Ball, who returns for
the next chapter: “In this film, we
learn there is a much bigger world waiting for Thomas and the Gladers, one
that’s been ravaged by the sun and a deadly virus. These young people have to
find their place in this world and figure out how they can fix it. The Gladers are very valuable to several different
groups, and they’re torn between saving the world and their personal freedom.”
“Maze
Runner: The Scorch Trials” picks up where “The Maze Runner” left off, as the
Gladers, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), Minho
(Ki Hong Lee), Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), Newt (Thomas Brodie Sangster), Frypan
(Dexter Darden) and Winston (Alexander Flores) are unloaded from the chopper that flew them
away from the maze. The helicopter’s doors fly open and masked soldiers whisk
them into an underground bunker. The bunker is run by the duplicitous Janson
(Aidan Gillen), who supplies a feast and warm beds, while warning, “The world
out there’s in a rather precarious situation.
Thomas
suspects the bunker is run by none other than WCKD (World Catastrophe Killzone
Department) and must convince the
Gladers they aren’t safe here. Their loyalty to each other is all they can
count on. The Gladers mount a breakout,
fighting against soldiers armed with electric projectile weaponry. Led by
Thomas and Minho (Ki Hong Lee), they grab Teresa from a private surgery room
and flee the bunker into a raging sandstorm.
They’re
now in the Scorch, a futuristic badlands burnt by solar flares. In this barren
wasteland, the Gladers trudge toward the unknown. A guilt-ridden Thomas wonders
if he should have led them out of the maze.
They survived in the Glade but could die in this area of scorched Earth.
“Maze
Runner: The Scorch Trials” answers many of the questions posed in the first
film. The Gladers learn that most of the Earth has been destroyed, and that it
was the ruthless scientific government entity known as WCKD that sent the
Gladers into the maze as a survival challenge.
They discover that some of them are immune to the fatal Flare disease
that is ravaging the population. These Immunes hold biological enzymes within
their bodies that may help others resist the Flare. ““The Maze Runner” was about claustrophobia
and we were always closed in and never saw a horizon. But in this new film we
go out into the open world with a giant desert of sand dunes swallowing the
whole world basically,” says Ball.
Producer
Wyck Godfrey notes, “This story begins to unravel the mystery of what has
happened to the world and how it was ravaged.
Our characters find some answers by embarking on a very dangerous
journey.”
“Maze
Runner: The Scorch Trials” opens this September 9 nationwide in Philippine
cinemas (ahead of its U.S. release, September 18) from 20th Century
Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.
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