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 take the form of colored swirls at constantly revolve around his head. The effects that depict the “Noise” are perhaps the most striking thing to come out of the film — swirls that turn into images at the drop of a hat; images that take on a life on their own and become birds, or rabbits, bounding out from the heads of their creators, sometimes even taking solid effect if the thought is strong enough. It becomes a pivotal part of