Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Releases First Trailer—Watch Now!

Gladers continue to search for answers about WCKD

By Francesca Bacardi May 19, 2015 2:38 PMTags

Some of the Gladers and Runners are out of the maze, but they're still not safe.

The first trailer for the Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials has dropped, and Dylan O'Brien is back to try and lead his friends and fellow captives to safety while searching for answers about the powerful organization known as WCKD—the group responsible for keeping them in the maze.

"It's time now to start phase two," an ominous voice over says.

Although the boys and one girl have managed to escape the maze trials, their new journey takes them to the Scorch, a post-apocalyptic, desolate landscaped filled with unimaginable obstacles and even more questions. Aiden Gillan (or Petyr Baelish to Game of Thrones fans) seems to be the leader at the Scorch, and just like his characters in the HBO series, he is as mysterious as ever. 

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While at their new "home," the Gladers team up with resistance fighters to take on WCKD's superior forces. While battling it out, they uncover that they might not have ever escaped the maze and realize that the people of the Scorch had plans for them all along.

"They're hiding something. They lied to us. We never escaped," O'Brien says. "It's all just been part of their plan."

The first look is far from lacking in action, with the gun-toting Gladers finding themselves running, fighting and doing whatever they can to escape WCKD and whatever forces might be trying to keep them contained in order to supposedly save humanity.

Based on the novel by James Dashner, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials also stars Thomas Brodie-SangsterKatherine McNamaraKaya Scodelario and Ki Hong Lee. It hits theaters on Sept. 18.