He'll be Aris JonesWith 20th Century Fox going full speed ahead on the sequel to The Maze Runner after the first film’s successful launch at the US box office, director Wes Ball is gathering the cast. He recently hired Aidan Gillen to play a villain in Maze Runner: Scorch Trials and he now has young Mud actor Jacob Lofland aboard.With Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario and some of the other main cast from the original reprising their roles, the new film will – SPOILER WARNING – find the young men and women on the run and fighting for survival in a world that has been devastated by solar flares and a raging virus.Lofland will be Aris Jones, who the Gladers (O’Brien and co.) meet in the outside world, and learn of his connection to the maze and its builders.