10 Movies That Could Be Major Surprise Hits Of 2019
1. Chaos Walking
Chaos Walking will put the popularity of two of Hollywood’s brightest young stars to the test. Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland co-star in the YA adaptation in which humanity has been infected by a virus, wiping out all of the women and afflicting the survivors with the ability to read each others minds in a cacophonous and unescapable stream of consciousness called The Noise. When Todd Hewitt stumbles upon a rare patch of silence, he soon discovers its source - a young woman named Viola. Adventure ensues. Director Doug Liman had this to say…
"With Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, I haven’t felt like that, since casting Brad [Pitt] and Angie [Angelina Jolie] on Mr. & Mrs. Smith. I’ve had amazing actors in my films, but having amazing actors at the exact right moment in their careers, like I had with Mr. & Mrs. Smith, I feel like I’ve lucked into that same timing again on Chaos Walking. They’re incredible together. There’s a crazy big idea in Chaos Walking, but I’m interested in it, in terms of how it impacts the relationship between Daisy and Tom."
YA adaptations haven’t fared well at the box office since The Hunger Games and Twilight were first out of the gate capitalising on the success of the Harry Potter films. Since then, The Maze Runner, The Host, and most recently Mortal Engines have found luke-warm if not hostile receptions at the box office. Did social media kill any interest teens still had in reading fiction?
Doug Liman is an inventive and capable filmmaker, having launched the Jason Bourne franchise in style with The Bourne Identity (for my money still the best of the series, despite much ballyhooing over Paul Greengrass) and crafted a unique and well liked sci-fi action picture with Edge of Tomorrow. Chaos Walking sounds like the kind of material he can convert to box office success.
Are any of these films on your radar? Is there anything else you’re looking forward to that deserves mainstream attention? Let us know in the comments.