Lionsgate’s
Chaos Walking movie will reportedly undergo major reshoots later this year that may delay the adaptation’s early 2019 release date.
According to
The Hollywood Reporter, Doug Liman's upcoming adaptation of Patrick Ness’ YA trilogy (which follows the first novel, The Knife of Never Letting Go) will head back into production for two to three weeks of additional photography later this year to early next year, possibly December to January. The reshoots being scheduled so long after principal photography wrapped likely has to do with the stars’ busy schedules.
The film tapped two up-and-coming actors who have since become well-known stars thanks to their respective franchises:
Tom Holland, who plays
Spider-Man in Marvel Studios’ superhero cinematic universe, and
Daisy Ridley, who portrays Rey in Lucasfilm’s latest
Star Wars trilogy - As well as
Mads Mikkelsen whose on-board to play the film's villain. Holland is due to shoot the sequel to
Spider-Man: Homecoming while Ridley will be at work on
Star Wars: Episode IX, both of which take up the summer months.
The stars filmed
Chaos Walking in the latter half of 2017, wrapping in November 2017, but evidently now the actors will be heading back for reshoots later this year. And it is due to the reported reshoots supposedly taking place around December or January the planned early March
release date may be affected in some way, landing the film a later than expected 2019 release date.