Rosa Salazar Joins Red Hot "The Maze Runner 2"

Rosa Salazar ("Insurgent") has joined the cast of the upcoming sequel "The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" for Fox says Heat Vision

The just-announced follow-up to the boffo box office hit "The Maze Runner" will be based on the second book in author James Dashner's young adult novel trilogy.

In the next installment we find out that the suevivors' “escape” was anything but...soon they realize that something’s not right – Teresa goes missing and a new boy, Aris, is put in her place. Thomas, Newt, Minho, must make their way through the Scorch, a desolate wasteland crawling with plagued humans known as Cranks, and arrive at the designated Safe Haven before time runs out.

Salazar will play Brenda, the lone female amongst another group of teens who ends up paired with Teen Wolf series co-star and NJ native Dylan O'Brien’s character when both end up on the run in tunnels underneath a city.

Game of Thrones actor Aidan Gillen will play the villain Janson, who is also referred to as Rat-Man.

The first film's director Wes Ball is back to call action using an adapted script by T.S. Nowlin, who co-wrote the first film with Noah Oppenheim and Grant Pierce Myers.

Production is slated to begin at the end of October---The sequel will hit theaters on September 18th 2015.