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They generally sit upon a wooden walnut base and legs but we note that Botha has had the chairs in Ava’s office made in steel to reflect the WCKD world seen beyond, through the grand floor-to-ceiling window. These chairs exhibit distinctive, angular and yet sensual shapes. These are Ventura Lounge chairs, designed by Jean-Marie Massaud in 2011, from the prestigious Italian furniture brand Poliform. We spot two beautifully placed lounge chairs in Ava’s office (seen left above). She has a very strong agenda, obviously, and people’s feelings, thoughts, emotion are not a large part of her life”. “These sets involved a laborious process with a lot of planning and preparation” Botha told Film and Furniture. Ava is a hard and steadfast character and Botha explains that she wanted lots of straight lines and a distinctive palette of monochrome with gold and grey to represent Ava: “S he doesn’t bend, she doesn’t curve”. Clarkson describes her character as “someone who truly cares for the immunes but she has a drive to succeed that is above all else. To help us identify this film set’s contents, furniture and decor we caught up with Set Decorator Anneke Botha to talk us through the details. The scene in Maze Runner Death Cure which had our eyes on stalks was the dramatic and carefully considered office in the WCKD headquarters – the domain of WCKD’s authoritative, mysterious executive director Dr. So, I think the production design plays a big role in this film.” Ava Paige’s office in WCKD. You know you can walk down that corridor and there’s another corridor and you can walk into that corridor and there’s a lab and then it brings you back to the other corridor. It really feels like a world that you can inhabit, like the real thing, because it’s all there. It’s not like, ‘Oh here’s a white wall and over there it just stops and there’s a bunch of people standing around’. It’s very easy to act on those sets, you know. Playing the part of Janson, the man responsible rounding up the immunes and for keeping the facility secure, Aidan Gillen credits the Production Design of the facility for bringing a lot to all the performances. “Which was great: you feel like you’ve done a good job designing a set when the director wants to shoot more there when they’re finding new angles they like, and wanting to shoot more.” Corridors of the WCKD Lab in Maze Runner: The Death Cure “Wes shot a lot of stuff in the lab,” confirms Dorrance. Kaya Scodelario and Patricia Clarkson in the Lab at WCKD in Maze Runner” The Death Cure The design also allowed filming to take place from one area to the next in long, continuous shots. The set had many different rooms and multiple long corridors creating once again, the feeling of being in a maze, only this time the Gladers were trying to break in, not out. With Production Design by Daniel Dorrance and Set Decoration by Anneke Botha, the interior and the WCKD Lab on the 20 th floor was a massive set constructed in a converted warehouse just outside of Cape Town. In creating the impenetrable WCKD building, production used the sleek design of the Cape Town International Convention Centre as the exterior. In the movie, the WCKD headquarters and laboratory is located within Last City, which has been built to protect the planet’s few remaining survivors from the The Flare virus. The walled ‘Last City’ in Maze Runner: The Death Cure

The Southern Cape provided the perfect backdrop for the concrete fortress utopia ‘Last City’ with its tall buildings and modern architecture. To achieve this filming took place in Cape Town, South Africa. The production of the film needed a location that would provide diversity – from the scorch, to the city, to the safe haven and everything in between. They each have their own tone and color palette.” The film sets and production design of Maze Runner: The Death Cure are certainly worth a closer look. The second story was the sand and rust of the scorch and this film, The Death Cure, is a world of glass and steel.

Wes Ball, director of all three films, describes the differences in the worlds where each story takes place: “The first film with the maze, was all cement and decay.

#Maze runner death cure movie

Maze Runner: The Death Cure, released 23 January, 2018 is the third and final movie in the Maze Runner trilogy (based on James Dashner’s best-selling book series), each with it’s own distinct look and feel. The film sets and production design of Maze Runner: The Death Cure and an exclusive tour of Ava Paige’s WCKD office