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"Charlie Kaufman will write the screenplay for The Knife of Never Letting Go. The Synecdoche, New York scribe has signed on to work on Lionsgate&amp;#039;s adaptation of Patrick Ness&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Chaos Walking&amp;#039; trilogy, reports Deadline. The young adult series is set on a colonised alien planet where mankind is infected by a &amp;#039;germ&amp;#039; that killed the female settlers and forces the men to hear each other&amp;#039;s thoughts. It centres around Todd Hewitt, the last boy in Prentisstown, who finds himself drawn into the centre of a conspiracy and a war against the native alien populace. &amp;gt; Kaufman, Jonze to reunite for new film? &amp;gt; Kaufman &amp;#039;doesn&amp;#039;t try to please people&amp;#039; Kaufman is best known for his work on adult movies such as Adaptation, but also made an uncredited contribution to kids animated film Kung Fu Panda 2. Lionsgate recently released the record-breaking adaptation of the first novel in Suzanne Collins&amp;#039;s Hunger Games young adult trilogy. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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