Prepare for Scorch Trials in 2015Plans for the film were announced at the San Diego Comic-Con back in July, and director Wes Ball is already knee-deep in pre-production, but thanks to the success of the first film at the US and international box office this weekend, the sequel to The Maze Runner, currently called Maze Runner: Scorch Trials, has been dated for release in the States on September 18, 2015.The first Maze Runner doesn’t open here in the UK until October 10, but 20th Century Fox is clearly bullish about its new franchise, despite it opening to a lower figure than novel adaptation champions Twilight or The Hunger Games.