Marvel’s and Star Wars’ biggest stars starred in sci-fi’s big bust

Failure in sci-fi movies is not something new, because even when two of the biggest franchises have such elements, sci-fi has had sensational box office disasters like “Blade Runner” or even Luc Besson’s “Valerian”. But this time, not even the biggest stars of Marvel and Star Wars could save this thriller from Doug Liman.

It’s about ‘Walking chaos’, with Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, currently recognized worldwide for bringing Spiderman to life in the MCU, and Rey in the latest Star Wars trilogy. It was a sci-fi movie that had gathered all the elements to become a story worthy of posing with the greats, but it ended up being one of the bunch.

And by these elements we mean that ‘Walking chaos’ It’s a science fiction film by Doug Liman., the same person responsible for “Edge of Tomorrow”, one of the most acclaimed works of science fiction in recent years. And when you have Marvel’s and Star Wars’ biggest stars, that seems like a recipe for success, at least at the box office, but the outcome was totally different.

At this moment you can see’Walking chaos’ on Netflix Spain, but is also found on Amazon Prime Video, or can be rented and purchased through Claro, Apple TV, YouTube and Google Play Movies services. The tape had been announced in 2011, and many of the most famous screenwriters in the genre got their hands on the script, such as Charlie Kaufman, the same person responsible for ‘Eternal glow of a mind without memories’.

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What is “Chaos Walking” with Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley about?

The story of ‘Chaos Walking’ follows a boy, played by Tom Holland, who lives in a dystopian world where there are no more women, because an alien race has eliminated all of them, as the beliefs say. Also, a strange condition called “The Noise” allows everyone to hear everyone else’s thoughts.

One day, the boy named Todd meets a woman named Viola, who fell into a spaceship that crashed on Earth, but, in addition to never having seen a female, the young man is struck by her because she has no “noise”. , and now, his main mission is to protect her from all the dangers that exist in the world.

But in addition to the fact that the critics have not been very supportive of ‘Chaos Walking’, the box office has not been able to respond as Lionsgate would have liked. Well, of the $100 million that was budgeted for the film, it only managed to gross $26 million worldwide, resulting in an estimated $112 million in losses.