Chaos Walking is an upcoming American science
fiction film based on Patrick
Ness's 2008 novel The
Knife of Never Letting Go, the first part of the Chaos
Walking trilogy. It is directed by Doug Liman, produced by Robert
Zemeckis, Allison
Shearmur, Doug
Davison, Jack Rapke and Erwin
Stoff, from a screenplay
written by Charlie Kaufman, Jamie Linden, Ness, Lindsey
Beer, Gary Spinelli and John Lee Hancock. It stars Tom
Holland, Daisy
Ridley and Mads
Mikkelsen. The film will be
released on March 1, 2019.
In the near future, Todd Hewitt has been brought up to
believe that a viral germ has killed all women in a colony world and unleashed Noise,
the special ability to read people's and animals' minds. Later, he comes upon a
patch of silence and soon discovers the source of the silence: a mysterious
woman named Viola Eade. On the run, they learn more about the true history of
the New World.
Chaos Walking is set on a colony planet where almost all women have
been killed by a virus and all living creatures hear one another's thoughts in
a stream of images, words and sounds called Noise. The cacophony drives many
mad until a young man (Holland) makes a silent discovery: There is a girl
(Ridley) who may be the key to unlocking the New World's many-layered secrets.
Ness, the author of the trilogy who
also wrote A Monster Calls as
well as its film adaptation, is in negotiations to write the new script pages
for the planned reshoot. He will be joining a roster of screenwriters that
includes Charlie Kaufman, Lindsey Beers, John Lee Hancock and Gary Spinelli,
all of whom previously worked on the complicated and unique story.
In the future-set sci-fi epic,
Holland plays Todd Hewitt, a boy from an all-male planetary colony, on the
verge of manhood, when forced to flee home from the secrets he's learned after
a bizarre viral outbreak that carries the primary symptom of hearing the
thoughts of fellow denizens. However, his journey in the wilderness leads him
to a surprising first encounter with the opposite sex in a wayward girl named
Viola Eade, played by (a blonde) Ridley.
Chaos Walking, Doug Liman’s big-budget adaptation of the
best-selling YA novel of the same name by Patrick Ness, is the latest
big-budget movie to undergo significant reshoots, The
Hollywood Reporter has learned.
And,
because of complicated scheduling issues with stars Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley,
the reshoots could very likely force Lionsgate to push back the movie's release
date, which is currently slated for March 1, 2019.
Lionsgate
is spending between $90 million and $100 million on the pic, an ambitious
sci-fi thriller that the studio hopes will launch a franchise that can stand
out amid superhero movies, remakes and sequel tentpoles.
After the diminished returns for the last
installment in the Hunger Gamesfranchise
and the total collapse of the Divergent series,
it's safe to say the market for movie universes based on YA properties is at a
low ebb right now. Nevertheless, Lionsgate is hoping that Chaos Walking can buck the
trend and launch a new franchise centered around its hot young stars Holland
and Ridley. On the surface, Chaos
Walking sounds mostly the same as other YA series involving
youthful heroes in futuristic/dystopian settings battling evil - but with its
stable of interesting writers and a curveball-throwing director like Liman,
perhaps it can strike a different chord than prior YA franchises and find a
foothold at the box office.
Chaos Walking is set on a colony planet where almost all women have
been killed by a virus and all living creatures hear one another's thoughts in
a stream of images, words and sounds called Noise. The cacophony drives many
mad until a young man (Holland) makes a silent discovery: There is a girl
(Ridley) who may be the key to unlocking the New World's many-layered secrets.
Ness, the author of the trilogy who
also wrote A Monster Calls as
well as its film adaptation, is in negotiations to write the new script pages
for the planned reshoot. He will be joining a roster of screenwriters that
includes Charlie Kaufman, Lindsey Beers, John Lee Hancock and Gary Spinelli,
all of whom previously worked on the complicated and unique story.
Jonas, of course, was introduced to the world as part of a
trio of sibling Disney performers the Jonas Brothers, notably seen in musical
projects such as the Camp Rock series.
However, his transition into real acting has been steady, notably on the
mixed-martial-arts-centric Audience/DirecTV original series Kingdom, which just concluded its three-season run
on August 2. He’s also been seen on Fox’s Scream Queens and
notably fielded a recurring role as a creepy villain on CBS’s Hawaii Five-0, playing Ian Wright, a homicidal
hacker who gives the task force a handful of problems.
Chaos
Walking Details
The young actors currently leading
the Spider-Man and Star Warsfranchises,
respectively, will be in front of the camera before Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow). No one knows exactly when the
film will go into production or what the potential release date may be,
considering the hectic schedules of the talent involved, but anticipation is
high. Holland’s work in the MCU, Ridley’s completion of the Star Wars trilogy, and Liman’s appointment as
the director of Dark Universe,
a.k.a. Justice League Darksurely are first priority.
According to a synopsis by
Lionsgate, the story takes place in a dystopian future and follows an all-adult
male planetary colony where all the women have been killed by a mysterious
viral disease that causes victims to experience the thoughts of other humans
and animals as a ceaseless stream of sounds, words and images, which the
colonists call the Noise.
Todd, the only boy in the all-adult
male community, was raised to believe the explanations handed down to him about
the mysterious Noise phenomenon by his elders, including the mad preacher Aaron
(David Oyelowo).
But one day, Todd, a boy in the
cusp of manhood, stumbles upon a spot in the wilderness—a patch of silence
where there is no Noise.
He later escapes from Prentisstown
with his dog and while being pursued by men from Prentisstown, he stumbles upon
an eerily silent young girl Viola Eade (Ridley), who appears to be the sole
survivor of the virus epidemic that was supposed to have killed off all the
women in the New World.
Even if Chaos Walking doesn't work
out, Ridley and Holland at least should be fine. Ridley is locked into playing
Rey in the Star Wars movies probably for as long as she wants to keep the
gig, and Holland too has a secure job for many years to come playing Peter
Parker in the re-invigorated Spider-Man franchise. If Chaos
Walking does work out, both actors will have a nice
side-franchise to work on when they're not toiling away for
Disney/Lucasfilm/Marvel/Sony.
Liman’s previous directorial
credits include Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Doug
Davidson worked with Liman on American Made (2017), while Shearmur worked as
co-producer on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Disney’s Cinderella
(2015).
The upcoming Chaos Walking movie is
based on the first installment of Ness’s Chaos Walking book trilogy, titled The
Knife of Never Letting Go, published in 2008. The story is set in a dystopian
future on a distant planet ravaged by a virus that makes people hear the
thoughts of others.
Lionsgate has not officially
confirmed that it is planning for a Chaos Walking film trilogy but since the
company holds the rights to all three Chaos Walking novels it is widely assumed
that a trilogy will come if the upcoming film — based on the first installment
of the trilogy– proves to be a box office success.
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