The story takes place in a world where all women have been killed by a germ and all living creatures can hear one another's thoughts in a stream of images, words and sounds called Noise. Holland stars as a boy forced to flee his town with his loyal dog who comes upon a strange sight: a girl (Ridley).

Holland currently stars in Sony and Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: Homecoming as the latest actor to play the iconic web-slinger. Ridley will next be seen in Murder on the Orient Express and the upcoming Star Wars film The Last Jedi.

Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman worked on the script for Chaos Walking, as did Jamie Linden (Money Monster).