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SUMMER EDITION 2015 JB Hi-Fi
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Californication
SCORCHerofaSEQUEL
REALITY BITES FOR WAHLBERG
The second installment
in the Maze Runner saga,
The Scorch Trials, due in cinemas
in September.
S uch was the confidence Twentieth
Century Fox had in The Maze Runner
that they greenlit a sequel before the
original had even opened.
The Maze ScorchTrials is
currently in production and is due to open
in cinemas in September. Wes Ball is back
on board as director, as well as stars Dylan
O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-
Sangster, Ki Hong Lee and Patricia Clarkson.
Newcomers to the cast include Giancarlo
Esposito (Breaking Bad), Barry Pepper (The
Lone Ranger) and Lili Taylor (The Conjuring),
plus two familiar faces from Game OfThrones ,
Nathalie Emmanuel and Aiden Gillen.
Based on the second book in by James
Dashner’s trilogy, this finds the Gladers facing
another hostile landscape, The Scorch, a
futuristic wasteland ravaged by solar flares.
“We’ve got some awesome locations out in
New Mexico that we’ve found,” enthuses Ball.
“The cast won’t have to use quite as much
of their imaginations, so it’s going to be cool.”
Fox has yet to announce a third film but
most expect Death Cure will slot into 2016.
Ball has been quoted as saying that if he is
back on board he will not follow the recent
trend of splitting concluding franchise movies
into two parts. Fortunately, for the studio
Dashner has already penned a prequel
The Kill Order, with a fifth book The Fever
Code due in 2016.
“From the very beginning, I’ve always
wanted to write a prequel about Thomas,
Teresa, Newt and all the Gladers that leads up
to the very moment Thomas enters The Box,”
Dashner says. “There are so many things
hinted at that will be fun to reveal in depth.
For years, fans have made it abundantly clear
that they want the same thing, so now seems
like the perfect time to give readers the story
of how The Maze began.”
Meanwhile, JB Hi-Fi has lined up a fab
collector’s edition of The Maze Runner ,
which includes a 24-page prequel comic book.
Available only at JB Hi-Fi from January 21.
For more on The Maze Runner, see page 22
Expect to see plenty of Mark Wahlberg in 2015,
both as himself and in eclectic
line-up of new films.
This February sees the DVD release of the first
season of his family reality show Wahlburgers,
which follows the personal
and professional life of his brother Paul as
he seeks to expand his hamburger
restaurant business.
Wahlberg will also play himself in the big
screen version of Entourage, which is expected in
cinemas in June. The HBO hit, which ran for eight
seasons, was loosely based on the star’s own
experiences and he served as executive producer,
as well as making the odd cameo appearance.
However, he will next be seen in
The Gambler, a remake of 1974 drama
starring James Caan about a literary professor
whose life spirals out of control because
of his gambling addiction. It is expected
here in March and will be followed in June
by Ted 2, the sequel to Seth MacFarlane’s
2012 comedy smash.
Further down the line, Wahlberg will reportedly
play Steve Austin in the big
screen version of the ‘70s TV favourite The
Six Million Dollar Man and is also attached to a
movie set against the backdrop of the Deepwater
Horizon oil disaster in 2010.
Wahlburgers: The Complete First Season
is out on February 4
Bob Marley would have been 70 this year and to
mark the occasion, a bumper reissue programme
is planned. The Marley family has given Universal
Music unprecedented access to material from
their private collections and their vaults, resulting
in a wealth of previous unreleased material and
deluxe reissues throughout the year. Kicking
things off on February 3 will be Bob Marley &
The Wailers: Easy Skanking In Boston ’78, which
will be released on DVD, Blu-ray and CD, and
features classics such as No Woman, No Cry, I
Shot The Sheriffand Get Up Stand Up. The video
was shot with a hand-held camera by a fan that
Marley allowed to sit right in front of the stage;
unfortunately he was shooting with film and
needed to change rolls during the performance,
so the gaps in the live footage have been
augmented with specially created animation.
Wahlburgers
The Gambler
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