The big serious idea was about information overload,” he said in an interview with PW. The Chaos Walking trilogy sprung from what Ness calls “a big serious idea and a big stupid idea. Two sequels followed in quick succession, The Ask and the Answer in 2009, which won the U.K.’s Costa Children’s Book of the Year Award, and 2010’s Monsters of Men, which was awarded the U.K.’s Carnegie Medal (for which the previous two books were also shortlisted). The dystopian tale set on another planet follows Todd, the only boy in a town of men where the thoughts of every creature are audible, as he flees after discovering a secret-and the first girl he’s ever seen. and Walker Books in the U.K.) and won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award in the U.K. Fans of Ness’s work will recall that The Knife of Never Letting Go, Ness’s first book for young readers, was published in 2008 (by Candlewick Press in the U.S. Chaos Walking’s official trailer, which additionally showcases supporting actors David Oyelowo and Nick Jonas, debuted on November 19, and has racked up nearly eight million views on YouTube to date.Įnthusiasm for the project has been building for a while now. Directed by Doug Liman ( The Bourne Identity) and starring Daisy Ridley ( Star Wars), Tom Holland ( Spider-Man), and Mads Mikkelson ( Casino Royale), the film is slated for a March 5, release in theaters and IMAX. On November 13, the world got its first peek at the Lionsgate movie poster for Chaos Walking, the long-gestating, estimated $100 million feature film adaptation of The Knife of Never Letting Go, the first book in American-British author Patrick Ness’s award-winning sci-fi YA trilogy.

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