He'll be Aris Jones
With 20th Century Fox going full speed ahead on the sequel to The Maze Runner after the first film’s successful launch at the US box office, director Wes Ball is gathering the cast. He recently hired Aidan Gillen to play a villain in Maze Runner: Scorch Trials and he now has young Mud actor Jacob Lofland aboard.
With Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario and some of the other main cast from the original reprising their roles, the new film will – SPOILER WARNING – find the young men and women on the run and fighting for survival in a world that has been devastated by solar flares and a raging virus.
Lofland will be Aris Jones, who the Gladers (O’Brien and co.) meet in the outside world, and learn of his connection to the maze and its builders. Upping the gender balance a little, Rosa Salazar also recently joined the film to play Brenda, a member of another group of teens who helps O’Brien’s Thomas when he faces a new challenge.
With T.S. Nowlin providing the script again, Ball is gearing up to shoot the sequel soon ready for a September 18 release in the States and here. The first film will be out in the UK next week. Lofland, who appeared in Sundance indie drama Little Accidents, is working on TV miniseries Texas Rising.
from Empire News
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