Patrick Ness on Chaos Walking and Writing Snow Blind for Jake Gyllenhaal

With Chaos Walking arriving in theaters this weekend, I recently got to speak with author and screenwriter Patrick Ness. During the interview, Ness talked about adapting his book for the screen, why certain changes were made, why he feels a movie is a remix, why most of the creative conversations were about what does thought look like, casting the dog Manshee, and more. In addition, talked about adapting the graphic novel Snow Blind for Jake Gyllenhaal and Apple TV, which follows a boy who discovers that his family is in the witness protection program. Based on the bestselling novel The Knife of Never Letting Go by Ness, Chaos Walking takes place on a planet where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by something called the Noise which allows for each of them to see and hear what theyre each thinking. When a mysterious girl (Daisy Ridley) crash lands on the planet, Todd (Tom Holland) vows to protect her and theyre forced to journey away from everything hes ever known. The film