Because no matter how adult this series may pretend to be, it’s ultimately still young at heart. That shady government agent’s name: WCKD (short for World in Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department, and pronounced “wicked”).
In the trilogy’s first installment, a handful of twentysomethings with flawless skin escaped from a deadly labyrinth and opened the secret door at the end only to discover (dun dun dunn!!!) Patricia Clarkson! The sequel found our photogenic heroes learning that they are immune to the pathogen that continues to shred our species, and had been used as glorified lab rats by the shady government agency hoping to repurpose their bodily fluids into some kind of cure. O’Brien can also be seen in the apocalyptic Paramount film “Love and Monsters,” out today.Picking up where 2015’s “ Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” left off - and bringing the best and most kinetic of the post-apocalyptic YA sagas to an exhausting finish - “ The Death Cure” reintroduces us to a fallen world where a killer virus has decimated most of the population. “It sort of became in a way that step that I needed in recovery to know I could do it again, I could still be on a set and things could be done in the right way, too, and things could be done safely in the way that they’re supposed to be done.” “It really helped a lot, actually,” he said while promoting the action flick “American Assassin” at the time. O’Brien previously revealed in 2017 that getting back to work was conducive to powering on. He added that the “The Education of Fredrick Fitzell” - which will be released next year - was cathartic, saying, “I used it as an outlet, to lean into the mess I was in at the time.” I was going through that s–t for long time.” It was a very private and personal thing for me. “I had a rough and long road back from that, probably more than people realize. He added that his recovery was not a quick or easy one. O’Brien elaborated that the emotions he felt following his accident correlated to a degree with those he experienced while making the new movie. The film surrounds a guy who is baulking at the next stage of his life, he’s dealing with tremendous loss, and at that time in his life he reached back, to a specific night.
“And then this script came along and I thought it was crazy how much it was me at that moment. I had been allowing myself to be in this pretty f–ked up, lost place,” said O’Brien, who was 24 at the time of his on-set accident in Vancouver, Canada. “When I read it, I felt like I was going through a quarter-life crisis.
Directed by Christopher MacBride, the movie tells the story of a young man, played by O’Brien, who faces “an existential crisis” and “literally and metaphorically journeys into his past,” according to the official description released when O’Brien’s casting was announced. While promoting his new mystery, “The Education Of Fredrick Fitzell,” O’Brien said he connected strongly with that film’s script. I was fighting it for a while, and freaking out that I felt so f–king broken,” he recently told Deadline. A lot of things in my career were changing too. “A lot of things in my life were changing and were difficult at that time. The movie was delayed as he recovered from his injuries, which he has not elaborated on but reportedly required reconstructive surgery. O’Brien, 29, said he was “a mess” and “felt so f–king broken” following the mishap, which occurred while filming a stunt. “Teen Wolf” alum Dylan O’Brien is finally opening up about a horrific March 2016 accident on the set of “ Maze Runner: The Death Cure.” Paramount+ drops wild, action-packed 'Infinite' trailerįinal 'Maze Runner' is all zombies, explosions and funĥ questions going into 'Teen Wolf' Season 4