The Noise that beset all the male colonists, but not the females. A band of colonists has been settling the planet for some time, but a number of 'issues' have arisen, including an affliction called

There are a couple of interlocking conceits at play at the core of Chaos Walking, which takes place on a planet handily named New World Sorts that there's probably going to only be one Chaos Walking film. Novels, at least insofar as I have been able to discern by reading various online accounts of the narratives (I admittedly have never read themĬhaos Walking probably would have been granted a multi-film roll out over several years, a la either The Hunger Games or The Maze Runner, and it's perhaps an ironic asset of Redaction has taken place, and how many things have been rejiggered, not necessarily for the better, in the film version, from the original source The most perplexing thing about this adaptation, especially since Ness was evidently heavily involved, is just how much

Indicates as well as anything that the aforementioned 'focal element' was up for debate among the collaborators, leading to a kind of, well, chaotic But a perhaps kind of snarkyĭismissal of contributions to the screenplay by Charlie Kaufman (who evidently left the production over 'creative differences') made by directorĭoug Liman in a making of supplement included on this disc as a

Chaos Walking was culled fromĪ trilogy of so-called 'Young Adult' books by Patrick Ness, who rather interestingly co-scripted the feature film. Name is Manchee, and while there are certain elements at play that make this a kind of weird (canine?) sibling to A Boy and His Dog, especially with regard to quasi-telepathic communication,Ĭhaos Walking uses the pet as an adjunct to its main tale (tail?) rather than as a focal element. Sent were a roll of 'doggie clean up bags' housed in a little white plastic bone and a portable water dish. This film could have very well been better titled Walking Chaos, at least if Chaos were the name of a dog, since among the accoutrements Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, May 28, 2021Ĭonsidering some of the patently odd non disc swag Lionsgate Films kindly sent along with the Blu-ray disc currently under review, you might think

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