The Playlist, Reporting from the Wall Street Journal:

Starring Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, and Mads Mikkelsen, “Chaos Walking" is based on the book “The Knife of Never Letting Go" and Charlie Kaufman is one of the writers who adapted the screenplay (though foreshadowing where this piece is going, there’s been six writers credited for working on this thing). It’s set in a dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each other’s’ thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise.

Currently undergoing reshoots which Tom Holland has been posting about on Instagram, principal photography on the film began August 7, 2017, and was previously set for a March 1, 2019 release date. That date came and went and during a Lionsgate Entertainment earnings call earlier this year, the company confirmed the film would miss that date and would instead come out sometime in 2020.

Well, the Wall Street Journal, in a piece about the financial difficulties and challenges Lionsgate is currently facing, has shed some more light on “Chaos Walking" and all of it is essentially unflattering. WSJ calls the film a “major challenge" for the company and the movie has already cost $100 million to produce. But the real kicker is a film that allegedly “turned out so poorly it was deemed unreleasable by executives who watched initial cuts last year, according to current and former employees.“

Jesus Christ.