The 2021 film is a science fiction adventure that brings a unique and disorienting vision of the future to life. Directed by Doug Liman , known for his work on The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow , the movie adapts Patrick Ness's 2008 young adult novel, The Knife of Never Letting Go .
The Noise is not telepathy in the traditional sense. It is a relentless, visual, and auditory projection of every thought, memory, and desire. Men cannot lie. They cannot hide their fear or love. When protagonist Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) stumbles upon a patch of silence—a spot void of Noise—he discovers Viola Eades (Daisy Ridley), a girl who crash-landed from a second colonization ship. Her presence is a secret that could upend the tyrannical Mayor Prentiss (Mads Mikkelsen), who rules the settlement of Prentisstown with an iron fist disguised as paternalism.