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New on DVD: ‘Chaos Walking’ is a New World for Ridley, Holland By Tribune News Service
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The movie adaptation of an award-winning young adult sci-fi series tops the DVD releases for the week of May 25.
“Chaos Walking”: Based on the book “The Knife of Never Letting Go,” the first entry in a series by Patrick Ness, the movie stars Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland, of “Star Wars” and “Spider-Man” fame, respectively.
In development for nearly a decade, the sci-fi film “is neither the disaster one might fear nor the thrilling hoped-for first installment of a would-be trilogy,” Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Crust writes in his review.
Out of all the books we’re listing ahead of
The Last She cover reveal, this book is probably the closest in comparison, both in title and premise, but they’re still worlds apart. In Joe Hart’s novel, a worldwide epidemic has reduced the birthrate of female infants from 50% to 1%. Twenty-five years later, they haven’t solved the problem, and now less than a thousand women exist.
Zoey has only ever known captivity, and she’s desperate to escape before she’s subjected to the next round of tests that belong to a program from which the women never return. Both this book and
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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.