A stacked cast wasn’t enough to help this YA adaptation cut through the Noise.
In 2021, after a decade of juggling writers and months of extensive reshoots, one YA fiction series was finally brought to life on the silver screen, and then promptly forgotten. Equipped with a cast of A-listers like Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley and based on a massively successful book, Chaos Walking had the potential to join the roster of teen dystopian classics, but instead fumbled its way through production and was a box-office flop.
While the Chaos Walking series consists of three books of 500 pages apiece, even the basic plot summary is enough to pique some serious interest, right? Lionsgate evidently thought so and acquired the movie rights in 2011. In April 2012, Charlie Kaufman was hired to write the screenplay, and with the writer of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich now on board, it seemed like Chaos Walking was headed for success.
Furthermore, the central idea behind Chaos Walking would be incredibly difficult to portray on film. Noise is a confusing concept even in the books, as a stream of consciousness that can also serve as a picture show of memories or as a weapon when need be. In a film adaptation, nearly every performance would have to be done in two parts, once with the physical performance, and once with the voice recording of Noise to be overlaid.
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