Sony released the first trailerEscape Room: Tournament of Champions, the sequel to 2019’s horror-hit that put a group of unlucky people inside a huge maze filled with high-tech death traps.
In the trailer,Escape Roomsurvivors Zoey (Taylor Russell) and Ben (Logan Miller) decide to take the fight directly to their captors, after learning that the company that builds the deadly escape games is hidden in Manhattan. Their attack plan is interrupted when the subway wagon they are in gets hijacked by the company, and they end up trapped in another series of lethal puzzles. The oddest part of their situation is that the other passengers of the subway wagon seem to be all previous survivors from their own escape rooms. To survive, Zoey and Ben need to figure out how to escape the new set of traps, while joining forces with the four other survivors, played byCarlito Olivero, Indya Moore, Holland Roden, andThomas Cocquerel.
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The trailer also teases how the new escape rooms were designed to kill the game’s champions. The subway wagon itself turns into a huge electric cage, while a room that mimics a hotel lobby is filled with mortal lasers. As for the beach room, previously shown in the movie’s first images, it turns into a quicksand trap. There’s even a quick look at a falling plane, a special escape room that was teased at the ending of the first movie.
Escape Room: Tournament of Championsscript is signed byWill Honley, Oren Uziel, andMaria Melnik&Daniel Tuch, based on a story by Honley andChristine Lavaf&Fritz Bohm. Melnik worked on the first movie’s script together withBragi F. Schut. The sequel brings backAdam Robitelas director andNeal H. Moritzas producer, the positions they had inEscape Room.
Escape Room: Tournament of Championsofficial synopsis reads:
“Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is the sequel to the box office hit psychological thriller that terrified audiences around the world. In this installment, six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive…and discovering they’ve all played the game before.”
Escape Room: Tournament of Championsreleased was pushed back and forth a couple of times, but the movie will finally hit theaters this July 16. Take a look at the trailer below.
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