Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness is a YA novel getting set for the big screen, and Daisy Ridley has just joined the franchise-in-the-making.
Daisy Ridley may be the big draw here, but Patrick Ness has been spending some time in the headlines lately all on his own. Not only is he a successful author, but he’s also the scribe behind the Doctor Who spinoff show Class.
His Chaos Walking trilogy is one of his most well-known, along with A Monster Calls, so it only makes sense that it would make it to the big screen sooner or later.
According to Variety, Star Wars superstar Daisy Ridley has landed a role in the upcoming movie, which is being adapted by Lionsgate.
Doug Liman, who directed The Bourne Identity and has signed on for Fox’s upcoming Gambit film, has been announced as director. Jamie Linden (We Are Marshall, Dear John) has written the latest script, and Allison Shearmur and Doug Davison are producing.
The Knife of Never Letting Go is the title of the first book in the Chaos Walking trilogy. The synopsis reads:
Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him — something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn’t she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd’s gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.
The film is scheduled to go into production in 2017.