11 Mar '15

First Photos of “The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” from EW

Entertainment Weekly have released new stills from “The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials!” Check them out by clicking the thumbnails below:

Out of the maze and into the fire.

In The Scorch Trials, the sequel to last year’s YA hit The Maze Runner, the action picks up immediately where the previous movie left off—with Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and the survivors of that giant mechanical labyrinth discovering that the world outside their walls is far from a welcoming one.

“The first movie was the mystery of ‘Where are we and what is this place? And can we get out?’ But the second movie is about the repercussions of getting out and the discovery of what the world is actually like,” says producer Wyck Godfrey (The Twilight Saga, The Fault in Our Stars).

Based on author James Dashner’s 2010 novel, The Scorch Trials begins with the revelation that the maze and the grassy Glade at its center were constructed by the nefarious organization WCKD to train young mind-wiped survivors after a massive solar flare devastated the planet. “It has transformed the world into a desert with sand dunes that crawl and are swallowing the ruins of a lost world,” says director Wes Ball, who returned for the sequel.

When Thomas and his fellow Gladers escape the control labs of WCKD, they set off across this blighted landscape, fearing attacks from infected humans known as Cranks. “We don’t want to call them zombies, but they fit into that category,” Ball says. “They’re not undead, but they are rage-filled.”

As for the image above? “Our group runs into a lot of people out in the Scorch,” Ball says. “Some are friends, some are foes. In this case, they’ve stumbled onto the latter.”

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11 Mar '15

First Photos of “The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” from People Mag

People Magazine have released the first stills from “The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials!” Check them out by clicking the thumbnails below:

With plenty of fans, and more than $100 million in ticket sales, last year’s The Maze Runner was a certified hit.

The film, based on James Dashner’s young adult book series, dropped a group of unsuspecting boys into a mysterious maze, where they fought (sometimes each other) to escape.

The sequel, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, plans to blow away everything you thought you knew (unless, of course, you’ve read the books).

While “nothing can replace the maze,” says star Dylan O’Brien, who plays Thomas, they’re totally replacing the maze. The action this time centers on a lawless land called the Scorch, where the survivors try to gather more information about the WCKD, a powerful organization that’s in control of far more than they know.
Oh, and O’Brien, 23, tells PEOPLE that “there will be more female characters,” joining Kaya Scodelario, who in the first movie played Teresa, the only girl in the crew.

O’Brien is coy about divulging any more plot details, but he does promise answers for the questions raised in the original. With another two books in the series, he says, “our journey is not even close to being over.”

The Scorch Trials hits theaters Sept. 18, and check out Entertainment Weekly for more photos from the next installment of the Maze Runner trilogy.

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17 Dec '14

The Maze Runner DVD Special Features

Check out this fun behind-the-scenes video from The Maze Runner DVD and Blu-Ray special features, given exclusively to JustJaredJr.com!

The cast – Dylan O’Brien, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Joe Adler, and Dexter Darden – reveal the biggest jokester on set!

And one castmember in particular has an interesting song and dance he/she likes to do in between takes! Watch below!

Don’t forget – The Maze Runner is available now on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD, so get your copy today!

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12 Dec '14

‘The Maze Runner’: Exclusive Deleted Scene Reveals The Secrets Of The Maze

We all loved watching Dylan O’Brien getting chased by merciless Grievers as Thomas in “The Maze Runner” last September, but how did the “Teen Wolf” star figure out exactly which route would help him narrowly avoid death?

Fortunately, thanks to this exclusive deleted scene from the film, which will be included on the upcoming DVD and Blu-Ray release, we now know how Thomas got his insider Runner info. In the clip, Minho (Ki Hong Lee) gives Thomas the dirty details on the Maze itself, and fans of the film’s central romance will also be pleased to know that Teresa (Kaya Scodelario) also makes an appearance.

It’s actually a pretty nice bit of info/character work that may have gotten left out of the movie due to director Wes Ball‘s focus on amping up the action — something we found out during our in depth, spoiler-filled talk with the man from the set of the upcoming sequel “The Scorch Trials” earlier this month.

And frankly, that’s fine with us! After the initial set-up, the film version of James Dashner’s best-selling novel goes right into non-step, insane action and solving the mysteries of the Maze. Still, it’s neat (as a book fan in particular) to see a little more of the characters we know and love.

“The Maze Runner” is available now on Digital HD, and on Blu-ray and DVD on December 16!

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12 Oct '14

The Maze Runner trilogy ‘won’t split final movie into two parts’

The Maze Runner director Wes Ball has said that the YA film series won’t be following in the footsteps of The Hunger Games and Divergent by dividing its final movie into two parts.

A recent Hollywood trend – kick-started by Harry Potter and Twilight – has seen producers extend the lifespan of franchises by splitting the final source novel of a series into two separate movies.

Speaking to Digital Spy, director Ball said that James Dashner’s initial trilogy – The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure – would only be adapted into three films.

“I think three is the number; beginning, middle, end, that’s it. Four? I think there’s something off about four. For me, if I have any say in it, there’s three movies basically.

“We’re not going to [split a book in two], no way. I think three movies is the right number, Star Wars!”

Dashner has also penned Maze Runner prequel novel The Kill Order and will release follow-up The Fever Code in 2016.

-Source: Digital Spy

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