The last time screenwriter Charlie Kaufman attempted to adapt a book we got Adaptation., the absolute best movie about a writer trying to adapt a book (and probably the last time Nicholas Cage turned in a great performance, too). Kaufman also adapted Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which was released around the same time and was also pretty great, so suffice to say Charlie Kaufman knows a thing or two about adaptation.
So that’s why it’s welcome news that Deadline is reporting Kaufman is now working on another adaptation which might span multiple films. Lionsgate has hired Kaufman to adapt the young adult novel series Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness as its next potential big franchise, showing that the studio is not content with The Hunger Games kicking every other movie’s ass in theaters right now. Right now Kaufman is only signed to adapt the first book, The Knife of Never Letting Go, but who knows what could happen down the road if the movie is a big success and enough money is thrown at him.
Deadline describes the series as:
The Carnegie Medal winning book is set in a dystopian future with humans colonizing a distant earth-like planet. When an infection called the Noise suddenly makes all thought audible, privacy vanishes, chaos ensues, and a corrupt autocrat threatens to take control of the human settlements and wage war with the indigenous alien race. Only young Todd Hewitt holds the key to stopping planet wide-destruction.
We’ll see what Kaufman comes up with, but this has already pushed this adaptation of a book I never heard of onto my radar.
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