About Escape Plan 2: Hades

Escape Plan 2: Hades is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by Steven C. Miller. It serves as a sequel to the 2013 film Escape Plan and features Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista, and Huang Xiaoming reprising their roles. The plot revolves around Ray Breslin (Stallone), an expert on structural security, finding his trusted operative, Shu Ren (Huang Xiaoming), in the world's most secure and secret prison called Hades. To save his friend, Breslin alongside his team must plan another daring breakout.

Making / Production

The film was announced in 2016 with Stallone set to reprise his role. The production filmed in locations such as Atlanta, Georgia, and Mansfield, Ohio. Director Steven C. Miller explored more visual effects and CGI to portray the futuristic prison environment.

Actors

• Sylvester Stallone played the role of Ray Breslin, the seasoned security expert. Using his unique skill set, Stallone brings intensity and grit to his character's quest to locate and rescue his missing operative.
• Dave Bautista was cast as Trent DeRosa, Breslin’s tough-as-nails associate. Bautista's physicality and action-star presence were a perfect fit for the character's high-stakes objectives.
• Huang Xiaoming portrayed Shu Ren, Breslin’s trusted operative. Huang demonstrated a wide range of emotions in portraying a character who struggles to survive in the high-tech prison while maintaining hope of rescue.

Trivia / Interesting Facts

• This is the first sequel to a movie Sylvester Stallone main-starred in since Rambo (2008).
• This is Dave Bautista's second collaboration with Stallone, the first being in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017).
• The code used to reactivate the device towards the end of the movie is "7285" which, on an alpha-numeric keypad, spells out "Ray" (Ray Breslin).

Awards

Escape Plan 2: Hades didn’t win any significant awards.

Quotes

• "I'm done with prisons. - Ray Breslin"
• "You know the most important thing in this job is knowing you can trust the guy next to you. No one does it alone. - Trent DeRosa"
• "After security, everything else is a luxury. - Shu Ren"

Music, Soundtrack

• The movie's original soundtrack was scored by The Newton Brothers.
• The menu music of the Blu-Ray release is a 2 minute 20 second loop of the second half of the song 'Escape Plan Theme' from the official soundtrack.