Maybe now, there truly will be no escape.
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions–the follow-up to 2019’s psychological horror hit–opened in theaters over the summer (to mixed reviews), but an extended cut of the film is headed to the relative safety of your home later this month, as reported by screenrant.com.
The PG-rated movie will be released digitally Sept. 21 and on Blu-ray and DVD Oct. 16–with both editions including the original 88-minute sequel and a new cut with an extra 25 minutes of footage. The additional scenes, as explained, include an “alternate beginning and ending revealing for the first time who is behind the Minos Corporation.”
And, in case the extra footage is still not enough for hardcore Escape Room fans, director Adam Robitel has not ruled out another sequel–or even a prequel, an origin story, an entry told from the villains’ perspective or even “lateral” storylines.
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions–helmed by Robitel from a screenplay by Maria Melnik, Will Honley, Oren Uziel and Daniel Tuch–has Logan Miller and Taylor Russell reprising their roles from the original. They are joined by Holland Roden, Indya Moore, Thomas Cocquerel, Carlito Olivero and Isabelle Fuhrman.
The sequel follows six people “unwittingly 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,” according to the official synopsis.
The original Escape Room follows six other strangers trapped in “a maze of deadly mystery rooms,” in which they’re forced to use their wits to “survive a sadistic game of life and death.” The box office smash earned $156 million worldwide on a $9-million budget.
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