The cameras have been rolling for a little while now on the adaptation of Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking book series, kicking off with a first film based on the initial story, The Knife Of Never Letting Go. Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland star, and Ridley has posted the first picture of the duo to Facebook.
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. Mads Mikkelsen, Kurt Sutter, Nick Jonas, Demián Bichir and David Oyelowo also feature in the cast.
Doug Liman is calling the shots, working from a script that has been through the keyboards of Charlie Kaufman, Jamie Linden, Gary Spinelli and Lindsey Beer. Chaos Walking will be out on 1 March, 2019.