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  • With Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials out now, let's take a look at 7 things you probably

  • didn't know about the big-screen adaptation of James Dashner's best-selling novel.

  • According to the cast, The Scorch Trials was even more physically demanding and involved

  • even more running than the first movie. So, when Ki Hong Lee, who plays Minho, was

  • running up sand dunes, he suffered a minor fracture to one of his knees.

  • But that wasn't the only injury he sustained on set. He also cut himself several times

  • after he asked for a real knife instead of using a blunt one for a scene where he flipped

  • a knife and caught it. As for Kaya Scodelario, who plays Teresa,

  • although she avoided injury while filming The Maze Runner, she wasn't so lucky on The

  • Scorch Trials where she had back and knee problems from all the running.

  • And being barefoot for part of the movie proved its own hazard as Scodelario ran into a bolt

  • sticking that was up out of the set floor and pulled off her toenail!

  • The main cast took part in a boot camp before The Scorch Trials began filming.

  • However, whereas training for the first movie included learning survival skills and camping

  • overnight in the wooded Louisiana location used for the Glade, The Scorch Trials boot

  • camp involved running 2 to 3 miles a day in Albuquerque's mile-high altitude and practising

  • stunts such as a long slide through a closing door and a leap-into-mid-air-kick.

  • Most of the movie's sand dune scenes were filmed at Pajarito Dunes, west of Albuquerque

  • in New Mexico. The design team removed footprints and vehicle

  • tracks from the dunes by sweeping with rakes and used a low-hovering helicopter as a giant

  • fan to create a swirling effect in the sand.

  • After a hard day filming The Scorch Trials, many of the cast spent the evenings hanging

  • out together, playing Mario Kart and cooking. Kaya Scodelario made Brazilian dishes and

  • reckoned she was the best in the kitchen because she's inherited her Brazilian mother's cooking

  • gene. Dylan O'Brien's specialities were chicken

  • parmesan and breaded chicken cutlets, while Dexter Darden, who plays Frypan, loved to

  • grill and also made a mean macaroni and cheese as well as fried chicken.

  • The movie's party sequence was shot over two days at an 8,500-square-foot mansion known

  • as The Castle in downtown Albuquerque. The Castle was built over two years from 2006

  • and was the home of late jewellery designer Gertrude Zachary.

  • During filming, the walls of the mansion were covered in dark green wallpaper aged with

  • mildew and staining to give this quite new building the feel of a grand mansion past

  • its glory days. The design team also added hundreds of candles

  • melted down into mounds, and VHS tape that was pulled out to use as streamers.

  • The dark tunnels, storm drains and diversion channels under the University of New Mexico

  • Hospital in Albuquerque proved the perfect place to film scenes set beneath the desolate

  • landscape of the Scorch.

  • The sequences in Jorge's lair were filmed on sets constructed at Albuquerque Studios

  • and at the vacant railyard complex south of downtown Albuquerque, where movies including

  • The Avengers and Terminator: Salvation, and TV show Breaking Bad have also filmed.

  • The design of where the scavengers live in the lair was inspired by the look of Kowloon

  • Walled City in Hong Kong, a now-demolished stacked building structure where people lived

  • in very cramped conditions. Lots of the objects used to dress the set

  • of Jorge's penthouse were bits of metal and junk furniture found in salvage and recycling

  • yards.

  • Now, let me know in the comments below, who's your favourite character in The Maze Runner

  • series? And what's your favourite book-to-big-screen

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With Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials out now, let's take a look at 7 things you probably

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