Tom Holland May Join Daisy Ridley In Doug Liman’s YA Movie ‘Chaos Walking’
ActorTom Hollandmight live in a world populated entirely by men for directorDoug Liman(Edge of Tomorrow). TheSpider-Man: Homecomingstar is currently in talks to act alongsideDaisy Ridleyin the post-apocalyptic YA movieChaos Walking, based on part one of authorPatrick Ness' trilogy. Lionsgate is eyeing a 2017 production start date for the film.
Below, learn more about the Tom HollandChaos Walkingcasting news.
According toThe Hollywood Reporter, Holland, whom we also saw inThe Impossibleand heard inLocke, would play Todd Hewitt, a boy who’s never seen a woman in his life. Part one of theChaos Walkingseries,The Knife of Never Letting Go, is set in a horrific future where men have the “noise.” The noise gives all men the capability to hear each other’s thoughts. One day Todd and his dog escape town, and while the townsfolk chase after him, he discovers a woman named Viola Eade (Ridley).
Here’s the book’s synopsis:
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 one and onlyCharlie Kaufman(Anomalisa)once workedonChaos Walking. The screenwriter was involved in the project back in 2012, a year beforeRobert Zemeckisbegan consideringthe adaptation. AfterJamie Linden(Money Monster) had written the latest draft of the script, the project went to Doug Liman, who’s been busy these days. He’s currently in post-production onAmerican Made, and he’s gotDark Universe, a.k.a.Justice League Dark, coming up in the near future. It appears he’ll directChaos Walkingnext, but we’ll see what happens.
