The Maze Runner was successful enough last year to guarantee that the rest of James Dashner's young adult book trilogy will be made into films. The Scorch Trials, the second book in the series, will be released in September 2015, while the final book, The Death Cure, will premiere in February 2017, as was just announced by We Got This Covered.

The Scorch Trials (which, in movie form will be officially titled The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, much like the Divergent sequels became The Divergent Series: Insurgent) is pulling together a pretty terrific cast for its upcoming release. Recently, it was announced that Breaking Bad actor Giancarlo Esposito would be joining the sequel as Jorge, who according to the film's official description, will bee "a leader of a group of survivors known as the Cranks that encounter the group of teens led by O'Brien."

Esposito is well known for his performance as Gus Fring on Breaking Bad, one of the most memorable TV villains in the last several years. Gus was very quiet, straight-laced and uptight- will a character leading a group called the Cranks be the same way? Or would a Crank leader need to be a little more outwardly crazy?

Also joining the cast is Aiden Gillen from HBO's Game of Thrones- another character who tends to come off very stiff but has a nasty dark siding just underneath.

A recent preview in People shows a new post-apocalyptic world that the characters from the original Maze Runner must navigate, and which promises to be a dangerous place for these teens.

Originally, it was announced that the final Maze Runner book would only be made into a single movie, and the single release date announced for The Death Cure would seemingly support that. But is a split still possible? If The Scorch Trials can come away from the box office with more cash than the last Maze Runner film, a split could still be on the table

The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials premieres on September 18, 2015.