O'Connell, Sean (May 24, 2021). "Escape Room 2 Reveals New Title, Official Plot And Exclusive First-Look Images". CinemaBlend . Retrieved June 17, 2021.

After escaping the "sole survivor" escape rooms orchestrated by the Minos Corporation, Zoey Davis and Ben Miller decide to confront the shadowy organization after finding coordinates to its New York City–based headquarters. Zoey is encouraged by her therapist to move on from her trauma and to get over her aerophobia, but she opts to drive with Ben instead of flying. Schaelfer, Sandy (January 4, 2019). " Escape Room (2019) Movie Review - ScreenRant". Screen Rant . Retrieved July 23, 2019. DeFore, John (July 14, 2021). "Escape Room: Tournament of Champions': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved July 15, 2021. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (released in some markets as Escape Room: No Way Out and Escape Room 2: Deadly Game) is a 2021 American survival horror film directed by Adam Robitel and written by Will Honley, Maria Melnik, Daniel Tuch, and Oren Uziel. A sequel to 2019's Escape Room, it stars Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, and Deborah Ann Woll reprising their roles from the first film, alongside new cast members Indya Moore, Holland Roden, Thomas Cocquerel, and Carlito Olivero, and follows a group of six people trying to survive a new series of more deadly escape rooms. McGrew, Shannon (July 15, 2021). "[Interview] Adam Robitel for ESCAPE ROOM: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS". Nightmarish Conjurings . Retrieved December 1, 2021.

This Escape Room: The Game outing comes with three ‘rooms’ on the themes of the doomed voyage of the Titanic (I hope this isn’t a spoiler), Alice in Wonderland, and a Romero nod in ‘Dawn of Zombies’. You’ll be given four puzzles at once, to solve together, or in split groups more likely for efficiency, with occasional exasperated switching.

The justly PG-13 film is almost gore-free. Moreover, by not falling into an And Then There Were None template with a regularly scheduled death every ten minutes, the unpredictability of its set-ups, pay-offs and near-misses creates genuine suspense. There is bruised-forearm tension regarding whether the elaborate “escape rooms” will claim a member of the cast, and genuine sadness when a victim doesn’t make it. Development of the film began in August 2017, then under the title The Maze, and the casting process commenced. Filming took place in South Africa in late 2017 through January 2018. The main version that was released to watch at home ended up being an extended version of the movie. But unlike most extended editions, or even director's cuts, there was actually plenty that was different about it – including the ending. In the extended cut, the film opens with Henry, revealed to be a designer of the escape rooms. When his wife Sonya threatens to divorce him and take their daughter Claire with her, she ends up trapped in the sauna when it turns into an escape room. However, she does not solve it in time to escape and is killed.After the first film became a surprise hit in 2019, Columbia Pictures approved a sequel. Robitel returned as the director with Schut writing the script, and Russell and Miller reprised their roles alongside the addition of new cast members. Filming took place in Cape Town, South Africa, from November 2019 to January 2020, with additional filming in January 2021. [3] a b c Topel, Fred (April 19, 2019). " Escape Room Director Talks Sequel Rooms, Mythology and Returning Stars". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on April 20, 2019 . Retrieved February 12, 2021. D'Alessandro, Anthony (January 26, 2021). " Escape Room 2 To Open Doors In Early 2022". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021 . Retrieved January 26, 2021.