ODEON Magazine September/October 2015 | Page 17

hen we first met Thomas (Dylan
O’Brien – The Internship) in The Maze
Runner, he was trapped in a maze, with
no memory of how he got there, and
just a group of other boys to help him.
This time, Thomas and his crew of fellow
Gladers are out, free of the maze, but with a new
set of obstacles to overcome.
Based on the second book in the hugely popular
Young Adult series by James Dashner , they need to
cross a desolate, post-apocalyptic landscape filled
with unimaginable horrors, and known ominously
as the Scorch.
But that’s not the only thing standing in their
way, as they also need to to find clues about the
shadowy organisation known as WCKD who
trapped them in the maze to begin with.
The Gladers team up with a group of
resistance fighters along the way to take on
WCKD’s superior forces, and discover a
shocking plan for everyone concerned…
You may have thought that the

Gladers would be able to stop running now that
they’re free of the maze, but that’s not quite the
case, it seems...
“I didn’t think it would be more running, but it
is, funnily enough,” O’Brien told MTV News. “It’s
running everywhere; it’s running away from things,
up sand dunes.” But he also insisted it was fun and
that he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Although based on the book series, this film
doesn’t stick strictly to every detail, so even die-hard
fans of the novels will be in for shocks and surprises
to keep them on edge of their seats.
“We strayed a little from the book, so I hope the
fans are cool because we still have plenty from the
book in there,” O’Brien admits.
Director Wes Ball (Ruin) knows exactly what
everyone’s in for, saying that the characters are out
of the frying pan and into the fire this time around:
“Their adventures are just beginning.”
So strap yourselves in!

“Their adventures
are just beginning”
- Wes Ball, director
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MAZE RUNNER: the SCORCH TRIALS See it from 11 September