Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Trailer Debuts

Mike Tyrkus

9 years ago

The new trailer for the second installment of the Maze Runner saga, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, was released today. The trailer promises a darker, more politically-charged world than was delivered in the first film. While the use-your-wits to survive plot is still there, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials appears as though it will flesh out both the characters and their environs, as well as deliver a bit more development of the political intrigue only touched on in the first film.

As of right now, I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it will deliver the goods and rise above being little more than the Hunger Games rip-off the first film was. Then again, I could be wrong.

ABOUT THE FILM:

MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS: 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. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

Cast: Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Barry Pepper, Lili Taylor, and Patricia Clarkson
Director: Wes Ball
Screenplay by: T.S. Nowlin, based upon the novel The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Producers: Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Lee Stollman

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials will open in theaters on September 18, 2015!

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Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com

An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.