Last year Robert Zemeckis made his long overdue return to live-action filmmaking with "Flight," a drama that had something of a bumpy ride creatively, but wound up making a whole lot of money on a very small budget (especially for the director of elaborate, effects-driven rollercoasters like "Back to the Future" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"). Now, Zemeckis looks like he's being pulled back into the world of mega-budget fantasy, as Lionsgate is lining up the director for "Chaos Walking," a new YA adaptation being penned by "Being John Malkovich" scribe Charlie Kaufman. "Chaos Walking" is the first adaptation of a trilogy of young adult novels by Patrick Ness, which take place in a dystopian future where humans have colonized an Earth-ish planet, one that is infected by something called The Noise, which makes all thought audible. Talk about our worst nightmare (actually our worst nightmare involves snakes, forget it). Of course, in such a society, the capacity for privacy evaporates...
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