![]() ![]() Definitely the hardest part of the script was landing on the rooms that would feel like an Escape Room movie.Īnd then, of course, they get past the beach, and they get into what they feel is an outside, New York City cross section of a street, and then there’s going to be acid rain. And then we thought, “That’s not really our movie.” And then we came up with the idea of a great Cape Cod-type beach that then transforms and tries to swallow our contestants. And so I thought, “What about sinking through sand? Like, that’s scary.” We initially thought maybe an ancient temple or something. Coming up with just the modus operandi of killing people was difficult. All the big ticket items of ways to kill people we did in the first movie. We have fire, we have gravity, we have gas. ![]() All Rights Reserved.Īnd then further on, initially, we thought, “Oh, what about sand?” ‘Cause in the first movie we killed them in so many different ways. Photo by: David Bloomer COPYRIGHT: © 2021 CTMG, Inc. What about lasers and a huge bank? That would be really cool.” And we fortuitously found this amazing location in Cape Town, this beautiful bank that we retrofitted. And so it was a function of like, “Okay, we’ve got the train idea. ![]() I have a great production designer by the name of Ed Thomas. But we landed on a bank, a beautiful art deco bank. We always have to come up with a space that is, as I say, “Beautiful, but deadly.” There were a lot of things that hit the editing room floor in terms of development. Minos had a whole underground warren of space underneath New York City? It’s tough. The third rail turning into an electrical storm. I thought subway car-wouldn’t it be cool if we expanded the game in the sense that any place that you go to or enter that you could relate to could be turned into a game? And that’s where it naturally led its way to. I saw this great image in my mind of a train car derailing. We knew she was going to go to Manhattan. But I thought, how can we do stuff that subverts expectations? And it was Zoey revenge story. And I think the first “Ah ha!” was-I’ll never frankly feel like I outdid the billiard room, ’cause it’s my favorite room. I felt like, if we’re going to do a sequel, we have to kind of outdo ourselves. How do you top that? Or were you even trying to top that? The sets in the first one were already so great. The mix just brings it to life in a way that, you hear the crunch of a ceiling or a laser come by your head, and it is genuinely a different experience. Thank you for saying that. The mix to the sound is just incredible. I wish I’d seen it on the big screen instead of my TV, because some of those sets were so beautiful and immersive looking. In advance of its theatrically exclusive debut on July 16, director Adam Robitel sat down with Boxoffice Pro to talk about upping the escape room ante and the power of horror on the big screen.Ĭongratulations on a really, really fun movie. Such is the case with Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, the latest in a handful of horror films ( A Quiet Place Part 2, Spiral, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Forever Purge) to entice North American theatergoers as the industry recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.Ī sequel to 2019’s Escape Room-a box office success both domestically and internationally- Tournament of Champions ups the stakes from its predecessor, adding new heroes, new information on the villainous Minos Corporation, and-c’mon, we know what you’re really here for-more inventively designed escape rooms that’ll kill you if you can’t unlock its secrets. Horror movies might be designed for scares, but quite often-in between the shrieks-they’re just plain fun. Courtesy of Sony Pictures © 2021 CTMG, Inc. ![]()
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