Chaos Walking had all the makings of a successful young adult dystopian blockbuster: two major stars, a successful book series as source material, and a genre that had captured audiences around the world with franchises such as Twilight and The Hunger Games.
But a Wall Street Journal report recently revealed that the Tom Holland/Daisy Ridley-starring film was deemed "unreleasable" based on an early cut, with studio Lionsgate pushing it back for extensive reshoots.
Chaos Walking is based on the book series of the same name by British-American author Patrick Ness, who recently wrote the screenplay for the critically-acclaimed film adaptation of his own novel, A Monster Calls.
The series is a post-apocalyptic tale following a young man named Todd on a newly-colonised planet without women, where everyone can hear each other's thoughts. When a girl, Viola, shows up, she throws into question everything Todd has been taught about his planet, and the tensions between humans and the indigenous aliens known as the Spackle.
