5/11/2023 0 Comments Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness![]() “I hope they really like it,” Ness says earnestly. One Goodreads fan said she felt like his protective mother for the entire read and that she’d “do anything for him.” To say die-hard fans of a novel adaptation to film are hard to please is an understatement, but Ness took his adaptation work in stride. Todd is a boy amongst men, who manages to control his “noise” better than the others. Readers of the first book in Ness’s series, "The Knife of Never Letting Go" were undoubtedly possessive of Todd, Ness’s title character who's played by Tom Holland in the film. Ness' book was much celebrated in a space where dystopian sci-fi was ever-present: in the wake of the Hunger Games success, when young readers’ appetite for more seemed insatiable. The thoughts are known as “noise” and interpreted visually, to great effect by Ness and director Doug Liman ( The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow). It’s set on a planet in a post-Earth world where men’s thoughts can be heard by others and women don’t seem to exist (at first). Chaos Walking, originally a novel by Patrick Ness who also co-wrote the script with Christopher Ford, has a striking premise. ![]()
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