Taglines: No one escapes the noise.
Chaos Walking Movie Storyline. In 2257 AD, the colonists of the planet New World, all men, have been afflicted with a condition called the Noise which causes everyone to see and hear each other’s thoughts. The colonists were involved in a bitter civil war with the native humanoid species referred to as The Spackle, a war that ostensibly killed all the female colonists while half the men survived.
Todd Hewitt lives in Prentisstown with his adoptive fathers, Ben Moore and Cillian Boyd. Other residents include the preacher Aaron, the town’s mayor David Prentiss, and his son Davy. Prentiss has learned to control his Noise, making his thoughts difficult to see and hear. A spaceship that lost contact with the First Colony approaches New World and a scout ship is sent to investigate, but it crashes. One day, while Todd is working, he spots someone stealing and chases the thief only to come upon the crash site.
Todd returns to the town and tries to keep quiet, but the other men hear and see his thoughts about the crashed ship; they head to investigate the crash scene and sabotage some parts of the ship, but find no survivors. While Todd is alone, he meets Viola, the crash’s only survivor. He is shocked to see a girl, as he has never seen one before.
The men from Prentisstown capture Viola and she is brought to the mayor’s home, where she is questioned about where she came from. Prentiss explains to her what the Noise is and what has happened on their planet. While he leaves to go speak to the men, Davy is charged with keeping an eye on her. Davy unwittingly toys with one of Viola’s gadgets, which causes it to shoot sparks, helping Viola escape.
During Viola’s escape, she overhears Prentiss talking about letting Viola contact her colony’s mothership, intercepting their landing, killing them while being under cryosleep, and scavenging the ship. Viola hides in Todd’s family’s barn, where Todd eventually finds her. Todd tries to hide Viola, when one of Prentiss men arrives looking for her. Ben tells Todd about another settlement called Farbranch and says Viola will be safe there.
Viola escapes on a motorcycle while Todd chases after her on one of the horses. Prentiss and the men arrive at the farm, demanding Viola back as they believe she is a spy. Davy kills Cillian, and Ben is forced to join them. Meanwhile, Todd catches up to Viola and the two begin a journey to Farbranch, accompanied by Todd’s dog, Manchee.
During the journey, Viola reveals to Todd that she is from a large Colony Ship carrying over 4,000 passengers and that her parents died during the 64 year-long journey from Earth to New World. Todd reveals he never knew his real parents. When they encounter a Spackle, Todd attempts to kill it in self-defense, but Viola stops him because it does not appear to be dangerous. They arrive at Farbranch, which is inhabited by men, women, and children, some of whom are displeased with Todd’s presence because he is from Prentisstown.
Todd discovers his mother’s diary, but Viola reads it to him because he cannot. The diary reveals that the women were not killed by the native aliens, but rather by Prentiss and the men of Prentisstown. The men cannot stand not knowing what are the thoughts of the women, driving them crazy.
Angered, Todd realizes that everything he had been told was a lie. Prentiss and his men arrive, again demanding Viola. Ben tries to get Todd to surrender Viola, but Todd is angry with him for lying. Ben uses an image of Viola to distract Prentiss and his men, while Todd and Viola escape. Aaron chases them. They come upon a boat, and, as they escape, Aaron kills Manchee, further enraging Todd.
Chaos Walking is a 2021 American dystopian action film directed by Doug Liman from a screenplay by Patrick Ness and Christopher Ford.[4] It is based on Ness’s science fiction trilogy Chaos Walking, adapting its first book, 2008’s The Knife of Never Letting Go. It stars Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, and David Oyelowo. It follows a young man (Holland) who lives in a dystopian world without women, where all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in streams of images, words, and sounds called “Noise”. When a woman (Ridley) crash-lands on the planet, he must help her escape danger.
Announced in 2011, the film underwent several rewrites from a draft by Charlie Kaufman, with Jamie Linden, John Lee Hancock, Gary Spinelli, Lindsey Beer, Christopher Ford, and Ness revising it further. Liman was later announced as director in 2016, and principal photography began in 2017. Originally set to release on March 1, 2019, it was removed from schedule to accommodate the film’s reshoots in April 2019 after poor test screenings.
Chaos Walking was theatrically released on February 24, 2021, in South Korea, and on March 5, 2021, in the United States. It received generally negative reviews from critics who criticize the film’s simplistic plot, uneven pacing, and its lack of character development although its visual effects and Ridley and Holland’s performances received some praise. The film was deemed a box office failure, grossing nearly $22 million worldwide against its $100 million budget, resulting in a write-down for Lionsgate Films.
As of May 7, 2021, Chaos Walking has grossed $13.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $8.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $21.9 million, against a production budget of $100 million. In the United States and Canada, the film made $1.3 million from 1,980 theaters on its first day of release. It went on to debut to $3.7 million, finishing third at the box office. Deadline Hollywood wrote that the film was “poised to lose money” for Lionsgate, and Lionsgate “has already written off the pic’s loss.” The film made $2.3 million (–40%) in its second weekend, remaining in third.
Chaos Walking (2021)
Directed by: Doug Liman
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, David Oyelowo, Yadi Nieves, Isabelle Giroux, Jazzy Ellis, Bethany Anne Lind
Screenplay by: Patrick Ness, Christopher Ford
Production Design by: Dan Weil
Cinematography by: Ben Seresin
Film Editing by: Doc Crotzer
Costume Design by: Kate Hawley
Set Decoration by: Frank Galline, Martine Kazemirchuk
Art Direction by: Carolyne de Bellefeuille, Daran Fulham, Nicolas Lepage
Music by: Marco Beltrami, Brandon Roberts
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence and language.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: February 24, 2021 (South Korea), March 5, 2021 (United States)
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