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‘Escape Room: Tournament of Champions’: Logan Miller Reveals the Room That Was Entirely Cut from the Movie
Adam Robitel‘s sequel Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is now playing exclusively in theaters, with the film tossing the winners of previous Minos Corporation escape rooms right back into the fire. Those winners include Zoey Davis (Taylor Russell) and Ben Miller (Logan Miller) from the first film, along with Holland Roden‘s new character Rachel Ellis.
Both Holland Roden and Logan Miller were interviewed by Bloody Disgusting’s The Boo Crew Podcast last week, and Miller shared details on a scene entirely cut from the sequel.
As Miller explains, an alternate escape room was left on the cutting room floor!
“As an actor, you’re always disappointed when you see things that ended up on the cutting room floor, but there was an entire room that I was in, a solo room, that ended up getting completely cut out of the movie, and replaced with something else,” Miller explains to BD’s The Boo Crew. I won’t give it away, but… I was in a sauna, and I was burning to death.”
He continues, “There was an element of the story that wasn’t working, and that’s what’s so great about the attention to detail that we try to get. We try to make sure the scenes are working so well. It might not be as good as we can make it. What it was replaced with was something so much more insane… it was me drowning in this room.”
“I guess burning to death is not as fun as drowning, visually,” Miller adds.
You can listen to The Boo Crew’s full chat with Holland Roden & Logan Miller below.
Ben Miller (Logan Miller) in Columbia Pictures’ ESCAPE ROOM: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS’
In case you haven’t noticed, the public domain status of beloved icons like Winnie the Pooh, Cinderella and Mickey Mouse has been wreaking havoc on the horror genre in the past couple years, with filmmakers itching to get their hands on the characters and put them into twisted situations. In the wake of two Winnie the Pooh slashers, well, Pooh is about to battle Mickey.
It’s not from the same team behind the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films, to be clear, but Deadline reports that Glenn Douglas Packard (Pitchfork) will direct the horror movie Mickey vs. Winnie for Untouchables Entertainment and the website iHorror.
Deadline details, “The film follows two convicts in the 1920s who escape into a cursed forest only to be dragged and consumed into the depths of the dark forest’s muddy heart.
“A century later, a group of thrill-seeking friends unknowingly venture into the same woods. Their Airbnb getaway takes a horrifying turn when the convicts mutate into twisted versions of childhood icons Mickey Mouse & Winnie-The-Pooh, and emerge to terrorize them. A night of violence and gore erupts, as the group of friends battle against their now monstrous beloved childhood characters and fight to break free from the forest’s grip.
“In a horrific spectacle, Mickey and Winnie clash, painting the woods in a gruesome tableau of blood—a chilling testament to the curse’s insidious power.”
Glenn Douglas Packard wrote the screenplay that he’ll be directing.
“Horror fans call for the thrill of witnessing icons like the new Aliens and Avengers sharing the screen. While licensing nightmares make such crossovers rare, Mickey vs. Winnie serves as our tribute to that thrilling fantasy,” Packard said in a statement this week.
Producer Anthony Pernicka from iHorror previews, “We’re thrilled to unveil this unique take to horror fans. The Mickey Mouse featured in our film is unlike any iteration audiences have encountered before. Our portrayal doesn’t involve characters donning basic masks. Instead, we present deeply transformed, live-action horror renditions of these iconic figures, weaving together elements of innocence and malevolence. After experiencing the intense scenes we’ve crafted, you’ll never look at Mickey the same way again.”
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