The film premiered in South Korea on February 24, 2021, and in the United States on March 5, 2021. Originally set to release on March 1, 2019, it was removed from the schedule to accommodate the film's reshoots in April 2019 after poor test screenings. Liman was later announced as director in 2016, and principal photography began in 2017. When a woman crash-lands on the planet, he protects her from danger.Īnnounced in 2011, the film underwent several rewrites based on an initial draft by Charlie Kaufman, with Jamie Linden, John Lee Hancock, Gary Spinelli, Lindsey Beer, Ford, and Ness revising it further. It follows a young man who lives in a dystopian world without women, where all living creatures can hear each other's thoughts in streams of images, words and sounds, called 'Noise'. It stars Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas and David Oyelowo. It is based on Ness's science fiction trilogy Chaos Walking, adapting its first book, 2008's The Knife of Never Letting Go. Chaos Walking is a 2021 American science-fiction dystopian action-thriller film directed by Doug Liman and written by Patrick Ness and Christopher Ford.

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