The epic finale to the Maze Runner series is right around the corner, with Maze Runner: The Death Cure coming to cinemas across the UK in January, 2018. This week, an exciting first look trailer for the film has been revealed, which you can check out below:
Directed by Wes Ball, with a roster of returning stars and new faces including Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Nathalie Emmanuel, Rosa Salazar, Giancarlo Esposito and Patricia Clarkson, The Death Cure is unlike the Maze Runner stories that came before it in that it seems to genre-bend and throw more twists and turns in the audiences’ direction than ever before.
Chatting about the film, Ball says: “It’s a heist movie this time. It picks up six months after the last movie, where we started in the desert, and then we come into the world of WCKD, which is a city: The Last City.”
With the characters involved more aware than ever, Ball continues: “But now, they’re breaking into walls, almost an inverse of the maze, and they have to get answers and out-manoeuvre every obstacle thrown their way.”
He adds of the film’s distinct look and the vision behind it: “The first film, with the maze, was all cement and overgrowth. The second story was the sand and rust of the Scorch and this film is a world of glass and steel. I’d say it has elements of sci-fi and film noir – I loved the idea that each one of these movies has a distinct look and feel, but that they all fold into the same universe.”
Not just a deadly labyrinth in the fictional Maze Runner world, the set for The Death Cure turned out to be a dangerous place for Dylan O’Brien, when serious injuries sustained by the actor on the set meant that filming was halted indefinitely.
In a harness on top of a moving vehicle, O’Brien was performing stunts but was unexpectedly pulled off and hit by another vehicle, with injuries at the time being described as a “concussion, facial fracture and lacerations.” His publicist said in April of 2016: “His injuries are very serious, and he needs more time to recover.”
It took almost a year for filming to restart, but the cast and crew returned to the set on March 6 of this year, in Cape Town, South Africa. Principal photography then came to an end on June 3.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure comes to movie theatres in the UK in January, 2018.