MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Dylan O’Brien (The Internship), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Love Actually), Ki Hong Lee (The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Rosa Salazar (The Divergent Series: Insurgent), Kaya Scodelario (Now Is Good), Jacob Lofland (Mud), Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Barry Pepper (The Green Mile), Lili Taylor (The Conjuring), Patricia Clarkson (Easy A), Nathalie Emmanuel (Fast & Furious 7), Katherine McNamara (New Year’s Eve), Alexander Flores (Delivery Man), Dexter Darden (Joyful Noise), Randall D. Cunningham (The Campaign)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Wes Ball (The Maze Runner), director; T.S. Nowlin (The Maze Runner), writer; Marty Bowen (The Fault in Our Stars), Wyck Godfrey (Twilight), Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (Abduction), Joe Hartwick Jr. (Jumper) and Lee Stollman (Life of Crime), producers; John Paesano (Daredevil), composer; Gyula Pados (The Duchess), cinematographer; Dan Zimmerman (A Good Day to Die Hard), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

After having survived the turmoil of a giant maze designed to filter the brightest of young minds, Thomas (O’Brien) and his friends attempt to discover the secrets of the organisation that put them in the maze in the first place, known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape with terrifying obstacles where they must team up with a group of resistance fighters to fight off WCKD’s vastly superior forces and their shocking plans for everyone…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The adventure that began in The Maze Runner continues in spectacularly entertaining fashion in The Scorch Trials, a film that manages to outdo its predecessor in terms of scale and breath-taking action.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

THURSDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER 2015

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