With
the highly profitable The Hunger Games franchise ending in 2015, Lionsgate is
looking for another young adult, coming of age story to bring to the screen in
hopes that it too will have a huge success. With this in mind, Lionsgate
optioned the rights for Patrick Ness’ futuristic young adult book trilogy Chaos
Walking, in which the first book The Knife of Never Letting Go is already
starting to get adapted by scribe Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind).
Today
however someone else joined the project. According to some reports director
Robert Zemeckis is currently in talks to direct at least the first adaptation.
The
Knife of Never Letting Go Synopsis Via Amazon:
Todd
Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected
with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear
everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the
midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him —
something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple,
loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two
stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why
wasn’t she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by
Todd’s gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a
boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure
out who he truly is.
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