It feels like we’d never reach this point, but we finally have a poster for Lionsgate’sChaos Walking. It’s been more than three years since filming onChaos Walkingbegan, with a relatively standard production processextending into years of additional work— primarily reshoots — soPatrick Ness’s science fiction novelThe Knife of Never Letting Gocould finally come to the big screen.Chaos Walkingis directed byDoug Limanand starsTom HollandandDaisyRidley. (Both actors filmed the movie pre-Spider-Man: Far from Homeand pre-Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, to give you an idea of how long this movie has been in the process of coming together.) The movie is set in a dystopian world where a pathogen called “Noise” has killed all women and allows all living beings to hear each other’s thoughts.
The first poster forChaos Walkingleaked on the internet earlier this week and its authenticity was later confirmedby the official Twitter accountfor the Lionsgate pic. After looking at the poster, it feels…underwhelming? Alarmingly standard-issue? Normal? To be fair, I’m not sure what I expected from this poster, assuming I had any expectations to begin with. The logline contains an ominous tease alluding to the movie’s big bad — that’d be the “Noise” — but the respective halves of Holland and Ridley’s faces fail to hint at an emotional reaction to the Noise or really any aspect of the movie they’re starring in. I’m sure things will gel better when a trailer forChaos Walkingfinally materializes, but for now, my excitement is minimal.
Now, here’s where things get interesting: There’s no listed release date on thisChaos Walkingposter. Back in February, we reporteda new release dateof June 29, 2025, had been locked in for the Holland/Ridley feature. However, if you zoom in and squint at the very fine print on this poster, you’ll see “Coming Soon” where a release date should be. There has been no official mention of any release date delays forChaos Walking, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Lionsgate pushed this one further into 2021 since it’s now unclear what the state of theatrical exhibition will look like at the beginning of the year.
Chaos Walkingis coming soon, per this first poster. You can check out the new poster below. For more, find out what movies areset for release in 2021.
Allie Gemmill is the Weekend Contributing Editor for Collider. You can follow them on Twitter@_matineeidle.
