Holland and Ridley's main gigs at the time – Spider-Man: Far From Home and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, respectively - were both filming in the summer of 2018, which meant Chaos Walking's release would have to be pushed to an unknown point in the future. Reshoots are common enough in blockbuster filmmaking, but Chaos Walking had the unfortunate problem of having its two stars committed to the biggest movie franchises on the planet. The project finally came together later on in 2016, with The Bourne Identity's Doug Liman directing and then-budding superstars Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley cast as leads.

The script was then tinkered with by a succession of writers - six in total - which is rarely a harbinger of a quality final product. He is not someone whose style is suited for big-budget YA fantasy blockbusters, however, and he only completed the first draft of the script before leaving the project. Charlie Kaufman, one of America's most idiosyncratic contemporary filmmakers, was hired to write the screenplay, presumably because producers expected he would use his incredible aptitude for externalizing characters' thoughts to find an interesting way to depict Noise. Lionsgate, attempting to capitalize on the success the studio knew it was about to have with the Hunger Games film franchise, acquired the rights to Ness' novels. It tells the story of a dystopian world where all the women have died and everyone remaining can see and hear everyone else's thoughts, a phenomenon known as 'Noise.' A young woman named Viola (Daisy Ridley) crash-lands on the planet, and a young man named Todd ( Tom Holland) helps her get to safety. The sci-fi action-adventure film is based on The Knife of Never Letting Go, a 2008 young adult novel by Patrick Ness that's the first book in a trilogy collectively titled Chaos Walking.

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