Feel the Heat in the Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

I don't think I'll be able to finish reading The Scorch Trials in time for the movie but I guess that's okay you can't read 'em before you watch 'em all after all. 

At the end of the first movie (The Maze Runner) we see Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) et al escape the Maze but it seems that the running does not stop. Now outside the Maze in a post-apocalyptic world, a ruined Earth known as The Scorch, the Gladers face something completely unknown to them and because they have been in the maze the whole time, everyone they meet has the upper hand, everyone, whether friend or foe. 

Outside the Maze, the Gladers learn about the Flare, the disease which has destroyed the world, as well as those infected from the disease, known as the Cranks. 

"This is where you get to see what society is like in a world ravaged by disease" says Producer Wyck Godfrey (Twilight). 

Protagonist Thomas is haunted by questions of whether he did the right thing by challenging the status quo by leading the Gladers out of The Maze. With all that is going outside - was it all worth it? 

“Thomas thought it was over,” notes O’Brien, during a rare moment of pause. “Actually he’s finding out it could be worse. He led them out of the maze – and they’re out, having lost some of their own – but the fact is it’s not what they thought at all, and it’s weighing heavily on him. That does something to a person’s mind, I think.”  He continues: “The challenge is, it’s not just the maze and the Grievers, and just solving one thing anymore. They’re kind of lost, and it’s interesting because while they don’t have to stick together anymore – they’re not confined to the same space – they do stick together.”

With more information about The Scorch - and WCKD, the mysterious organisation that wiped their memories and put them in the maze to begin with - the Gladers will each start wondering about their place in the world.

Thomas Brodie Sangster (Newt, Jojen Reed in Game Of Thrones) says "We're a traveling movie now. The first one (movie) they were trapped and confined. Here (The Scorch Trails) there's a feeling of vastness & space - but they're very lost - it's a whole different world." 

Along with O’Brien, returning cast includes Kaya Scodelario, Thoma Brodie-Sangster, Ki Hong Lee, Dexter Darden, Alexander Flores and Patricia Clarkson with new cast members Aidan Gillen, Rosa Salazar, Jacob Lofland, Lili Taylor, Barry Pepper and Nathalie Emmanuel. 

 Non-stop action adventure awaits when “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” opens in cinemas nationwide on September 9 (ahead of the US!) from 20^th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.