A Tom Holland Flop Is Finding New Life On Streaming
Long before the Coronavirus pandemic came along and reduced the theatrical industry to a shell of its former self, literary adaptation
Chaos Walking was already being predicted to bomb hard given the torturous production and sheer volume of writers and directors that it took to even bring it over the finish line.
Despite the presence of popular young stars
Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley in the lead roles with support coming from the solid and reliable likes of David Oyelowo, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas and Mads Mikkelsen, insiders and analysts had been predicting the movie to be a disaster for a long time. Adapted from Patrick Ness’ source novel, Charlie Kaufman, Jamie Linden, Lindsey Beer, Gary Spinelli, John Lee Hancock, Christopher Ford and even Ness all took a pass at the script by the time cameras started rolling.
Star Wars and
Daisy Ridley and
Tom Holland, respectively, but rewrites, poor test screenings, and other various behind-the-scenes problems would shelve the movie until it became a strange relic of another time. And that’s what
Chaos Walking is: a relic, but an odd one at that, one that bears all the hallmarks of a standard YA dystopian movie, but with a shockingly grim and dark tone that appears to be part of an ill-conceived attempt to set it apart from the pack.
Based on the first book of
Patrick Ness‘
, The Knife of Never Letting Go,
Chaos Walking is set in a distant future, on a distant planet colonized by humans. But on this planet, no women remain while the men are all afflicted by “the Noise,” a force that puts all their thoughts on display. Holland stars as Todd Hewitt, a boy living in the settlement of Prentisstown who has particular trouble controlling his “Noise,” his thoughts spilling out in a barrage of images and whispered half-thoughts, which t
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At this point,
Chaos Walking is turning into one of those Hollywood urban myths, the kind of movie that we’ll never see, and may not actually exist. But we’ll have to wait until March 2021 to see if we’ll be disproven, because, yes,
Chaos Walking has been delayed again.
Variety reports that Lionsgate has postponed the
Chaos Walking release date once again, to
March 5, 2021. That’s about a year after it was initially scheduled to be released all the way back on March 1, 2019, before it was pushed to January 22, 2021 to accommodate reshoots. But as you all know, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic happened, and the oft-delayed