Earlier this week, we got our first glimpse at the leads of Chaos Walking – Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland – courtesy of Ridley. There's another new update on the sci-fi adaptation, as Oscar Jaenada is joining the cast.
Doug Liman is directing the film, which adapts the first book of Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking book series, The Knife Of Never Letting Go. Ness’ trilogy finds humankind in a dystopian future, colonising a distant planet after the Earth has been ruined. When an infection called the Noise strikes, all thoughts become audible and chaos follows.
A corrupt autocrat takes the chance to seize control of the human settlements in order to launch a strike on native alien race the Spackles, blaming them for the infection that's apparently killing human women. Young Todd Hewitt (Holland), the only boy in a town solely composed of men, rebels to stop the oncoming destruction. Going on the run with his dog, he teams up with a mysterious, girl, Viola (Ridley), who is the source of a precious patch of silence.
Jaenada is on to play Wilf, a drifter who becomes instrumental in the plot against the mayor (played in the film by Mads Mikkelsen). Chaos Walking will be out in the UK on 1 March.
First Image Of Daisy Ridley And Tom Holland On The Chaos Walking Set