Lionsgate nabs 'Chaos' feature rights

Lionsgate has bought feature rights for the ''Chaos Walking'' youthful adult novel trilogy by Patrick Ness.The announcement is created Monday by Lionsgate's co-COO and Film Group Leader Joe Drake.Studio has set ''Chaos'' with Doug Davison who'll produce through his Quadrant Pictures.Tales are occur a dystopian future with humans colonizing a distant earth-like planet. When contamination referred to as Noise out of the blue makes all thought audible, privacy vanishes immediately too as with the ensuing chaos, a corrupt autocrat expects to get control in the human funds and wage war while using indigenous alien race."A sense of emergency and momentum propagates throughout these tales -- it may result in the books ones you can't put lower, and can lead to the films ones you can't miss round the silver screen,Inch mentioned Drake of his decision to find the variation rights. "But besides the story elements, the earth inside the tales is actually strongly imagined. They're books, much like 'The Hunger Games,' that individuals feel truly beg being brought to existence on film."The rights deal was talked about for your studio by Make the most of McEntegart, the Film Group's Senior Executive V . P ., as well as the author by his agent Michelle Kass of Michelle Kass Affiliate marketers london and attorney Howard Abramson of Behr Abramson in LA. Robert Melnik, Executive V . P . of economic Matters for Lionsgate, talked about Davison's producer deal with attorney Ron Genow. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com