Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley star in a pure action film, a dystopia based on a best seller -in the line of other films like The fifth wave– in which sound plays a fundamental role. Chaos Walking has a luxury cast that, in addition to the stars of Spider-Man and Star Warsincludes Mads Mikkelsen, Cynthia Erivo and Nick Jonas.
what is it about Chaos Walking?
We travel to 2257. On the planet where Todd, played by Tom Holland, lives, all men can listen to thoughts of each other. This is what they know as “noise.” Todd grew up believing that all the women had been murdered by aliens, but one day he meets Viola (Daisy Ridley), the survivor of a crashed ship. Todd has never seen a woman… nor has he met anyone he couldn’t read minds.
Stars of two great sagas
Chaos Walking It has two faces that are very well known to the public: Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley Or what is the same, Spider-Man and Rey. He has been Peter Parker since 2016, a character he has played both in the saga of The Avengers as in Spider-Man himself. She, for her part, rose to fame at the hands of Star Warsspecifically from Episode VII, The Force Awakens. With such a resume in action movies, the couple gets into the shoes of Todd and Viola, the protagonists of Chaos Walking. The cast also includes Mads Mikkelsen, Cynthia Erivo, Demián Bichir, David Oyelowo and Nick Jonasamong other actors.
Based on a book by Patrick Ness
The film is based on The knife in the handthe first installment of the successful book trilogy Chaos Walking. It’s not the first best seller of its author, Patrick Ness, which makes the leap to the big screen. Already in 2016, five years before the premiere of Chaos Walkinghit theaters A monster comes to see me, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Both films, by the way, have a curious connection: Tom Holland made his film debut under Bayona with The impossible, a role for which he was nominated for a Goya as best new actor. And another curiosity: the script is signed by the writer of the novel on which the film is based and, be careful, one of the scriptwriters of Spider-Man: HomecomingChristopher Ford.
Where was it filmed?
The story does not take place on Earth, but on a planet far, far away – as they would say in the very famous Daisy Ridley films – called New World. The landscape actually belongs to the canadian forestsspecifically from Montreal: Much of the film was shot about two hours away.
