Patrick Ness

Movies

Chaos Walking
Screenplay
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
Chaos Walking
Novel
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
A Monster Calls
Writer
The Old Vic in association with Bristol Old Vic, Jonathan Church Productions & Global Creatures’ present their Olivier Award-winning production, A Monster Calls. Thirteen-year-old Conor and his mum have managed just fine since his dad moved to America. But now his mum’s very sick and she’s not getting any better. His grandmother won’t stop interfering and the kids at school won’t look him in the eye. Then, one night, at seven minutes past midnight, Conor is woken by something at his window. A monster has come walking. It’s come to tell Conor tales from when it walked before. And when it’s finished, Conor must tell his own story and face his deepest fears. On publication, A Monster Calls became a bestseller with children and adults alike with its dazzling insight into love, loss and healing. It garnered huge critical acclaim, including an unprecedented double win of the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for outstanding children’s literature and illustration.
A Monster Calls
Executive Producer
A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
A Monster Calls
Novel
A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
A Monster Calls
Screenplay
A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
Snow Blind
Screenplay
Follows a high-school teenager who discovers that his family has secretly been in the Witness Protection Program for years and that someone is now tracking them down.
Untitled Master and Commander Prequel
Screenplay
Prequel to the 2003 20th Century Fox film "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" that adapts the first book in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian released in 1969 and titled "Master and Commander": Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Aubrey and a brilliant but down-on-his-luck physician, Stephen Maturin, strike up an unlikely rapport. He invites Maturin to join his crew as the Sophie’s surgeon.
The Lord of the Flies
Writer
A group of school boys stranded on a deserted island who descend into a savage social order.
The Night Circus
Writer
A story set in a mysterious circus and centered around two young magicians vying for supremacy under the close watch of their respective instructors.
Anya's Ghost
Screenplay
Based on the graphic novel by Vera Brosgol.