![]() ![]() In January 2018, director Robitel told Syfy that production had wrapped and that the film would be released in September 2018, before the film was delayed multiple times to an eventual early 2019 release.īrian Tyler and John Carey composed the score for the film. It was set to shoot in South Africa in late 2017. On August 9, 2017, it was announced that the film, then titled The Maze, had commenced casting, based on an original story created by screenwriter Bragi F. Russell Crous portrays Charlie, Jason's assistant Bart Fouche portrays Gary, Ben's boss Kenneth Fok portrays Detective Li and Jamie-Lee Money portrays Rosa, a fake flight attendant who works for Minos. appears as Zoey's professor while Jessica Sutton portrays her roommate, Allison. Yorick van Wageningen as the GamemasterĪdditionally, Cornelius Geaney Jr.Jay Ellis as Jason Walker, a stock trader.Nik Dodani as Danny Khan, an experienced escape room enthusiast.Tyler Labine as Mike Nolan, a middle-aged truck driver.Deborah Ann Woll as Amanda Harper, an Iraq War veteran with PTSD.Logan Miller as Ben Miller, a stockboy at a grocery store.Taylor Russell as Zoey Davis, a young college student.However, the Puzzle Maker is already preparing to make their flight a new deadly game of survival. She reveals clues to Ben that point to an unlisted building in Manhattan. When Ben suggests Zoey should move on, she refuses. Six months later, Zoey meets up with Ben and shows him newspaper articles that passed off the other players' deaths as everyday accidents. While looking at the graffiti on the wall, Zoey notices the words "Wootan Yu" and realizes they are an anagram for "No Way Out", suggesting the game is not over. They do not believe Ben either, as he was found to have drugs in his system. The police do not believe Zoey, as all evidence of the game has disappeared. The Gamemaster tries to kill Ben, but Zoey intervenes, and together they kill the Gamemaster.Īs Ben recovers, Zoey returns to the building with a detective. – and wealthy viewers bet on the result, with the current game luring in sole survivors of previous disasters. The Gamemaster explains that each year they lure in players with something in common – college athletes, savants, etc. Ben, after escaping the last room where a wall moves inwards to crush him, meets the Gamemaster, who controls the game that the Puzzle Maker designed. Zoey realizes that the purpose of the game is to determine which player is the luckiest. Some rooms, through songs playing, coats, and hospital beds, remind the players of them being sole survivors of various disasters Mike escaped a mine cave-in, Zoey survived a plane crash, Danny survived when his family died of carbon monoxide poisoning, Amanda survived an IED blast, Jason survived a shipwreck in frigid weather, and Ben survived a car accident where his friends died. Danny falls through the ice in an icy room and drowns Amanda plummets to her death in an upside-down billiards bar where parts of the floor periodically fall into a deep shaft below Jason shocks Mike to death to solve a puzzle in a hospital room filling up with poisonous gas and in a room with optical illusions and strobe lights, Ben kills Jason over an antidote required to escape. After finding the key, however, the rooms become fatal. They escape the first two rooms, a giant heating oven and a winter cabin. The participants arrive at an office block with no greeting, and when Ben tries to leave, the door handle falls off, revealing that the challenge has begun. When they solve the puzzle, they are invited to take part in an escape room with a $10,000 prize. Six people from varied backgrounds are presented with a puzzle cube: Zoey, a physics student Jason, a wealthy daytrader Ben, a stockboy Mike, a truck driver Amanda, an Iraq War veteran and Danny, an escape room enthusiast. A sequel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, was released on July 16, 2021. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the atmosphere and cast, but criticized the familiar plot and its failure to take full advantage of its premise. Filming took place in South Africa in late 2017 through January 2018.Įscape Room was released in the United States on January 4, 2019, by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and grossed over $155 million worldwide. The film stars Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Nik Dodani, Jay Ellis, and Yorick van Wageningen, and follows a group of people who are sent to navigate a series of deadly escape rooms.ĭevelopment of the film began in August 2017, then under the title The Maze, and the casting process commenced. Escape Room is a 2019 American psychological horror film directed by Adam Robitel and written by Bragi F. ![]()
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