Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for Escape 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 first Escape Room was a death game thriller similar to the Saw movies that 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.
The trailer for Escape Room: Tournament of Champions promises 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 is pulled 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 Room director Alex Robitel returns as the director of the sequel, this time adapting a script by Bragi F. Schut (who also penned episodes of the Ninjago television series) and Maria Melnik (known for her work on episodes of Neil Gaiman's American 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 the Fast and the Furious franchise, is attached to the sequel as its director of photography.
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions looks 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 as The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Night House, and Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho.
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions breaks into theaters on July 16th, 2021.
Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment