Sony Pictureshas released the first trailer forEscape Room: Tournament of Champions, merely two days after revealing its first set of stills. The trailer promises a perilous adventure through Minos’s deadly escape rooms, one that picks up shortly after where the previous film left off.
Sony’s firstEscape Roomwas a death game thrillersimilar to theSawmoviesthat followed two young adults, Ben (Logan Miller) and Zoey (Taylor Russell), as they used brains and brawn to escape from elaborate enclosed spaces–some rooms threatened to cook them alive and other rooms had walls closing in on them. The first film earned a total of $155 million dollars worldwide on a $9 million budget, making the horror/thriller one of the most financially successful major Hollywood films in recent history in terms of cost vs. revenue intake.
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The trailer forEscape Room: Tournament of Championspromises a nerve-wracking thriller where Ben and Zoey, the only survivors of the previous film, resolve to find the game’s operators and bring them to justice. Before they can do so, however, the pair ispulled back into another Escape Room game, this time alongside four players who have all played other games staged by Minos–including one survivor who can’t feel physical pain and uses that to her advantage. Together, they fight to survive dangerous escape rooms, including a subway car with electric currents and a cage slowly filling up with water.
Escape Roomdirector Alex Robitel returns as the director of the sequel, this time adapting a script by Bragi F. Schut (who also penned episodes of theNinjagotelevision series) and Maria Melnik (known for her work on episodes of Neil Gaiman’sAmerican Gods). In addition to Logan Miller and Taylor Russell, the film stars Thomas Cocquerel, Indya Moore, and Holland Roden as three other players named Nathan, Brianna, and Rachel, respectively. Interestingly, Marc Spicer, the cinematographer of two films in theFast and the Furiousfranchise, is attached to the sequel as its director of photography.
Escape Room: Tournament of Championslooks to offer roughly the same scares as the last film, but with a bigger budget and a bigger sense of scale. The film should easily fascinate horror fans in a year where “dreadheads” are already receiving a slew of quality titles such asThe Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,The Night House, and Edgar Wright’sLast Night in Soho.
Escape Room: Tournament of Championsbreaks into theaters on July 16th, 2021.
