Patrick Ness
American-British author and journalistWikipedia
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Sep 4, 2026
speaker_4HOST
And the specific writer they chose is perhaps the most revealing detail in the entire Laughing Place report regarding the tone they're aiming for.
speaker_3HOST
They brought in Patrick Ness to write the screenplay.
speaker_4HOST
A fantastic choice.
speaker_3HOST
And when you look at Patrick Ness's pedigree, it is intensely curated for this exact problem.
speaker_3HOST
The article meticulously details his background.
speaker_3HOST
He is an accomplished author who spans multiple demographics.
speaker_4HOST
You cannot just slap a lazy voiceover onto a movie to explain what a character is feeling.
speaker_4HOST
A screenwriter has to translate internal, abstract, emotional logic into external, visual action and spoken dialogue, all within a strict 120-page structure.
Nigel BettsGUEST
that show yes and peter again is in uh he's an incredibly generous actor and he immediately came up and talked about the stuff we've done you know he remembered um and he remembered me so it was yeah it was very nice Yeah,
Brad MellHOST
so one thing about Class is that it's basically entirely written by Patrick Ness, and he was previously unconnected to the Doctor Who world.
Brad MellHOST
He's a British-Canadian writer.
Brad MellHOST
So just wondering, did you meet him? Was he at the read-through or anything like that? And what did you make of his writing style? Because he's really a voice across that entire series.
Pie CorbettHOST
it's not.
Pie CorbettHOST
The only other occasion I know of that is Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls.
Pie CorbettHOST
Which was Siobhan's.
Pie CorbettHOST
Yes.
MeganHOST
I want to say...
MeganHOST
I'm going to misremember which author this is, but I want to say maybe it's Patrick Ness.
TylerHOST
Okay.
MeganHOST
Anyways, it has a book called We All Just Live Here, which is about all of the other people who aren't the heroes and villains.
Preacher ReadsGUEST
Um, and I, I think is one of the reasons why I would argue pretty much all humans should read this book, even if they don't find themselves, um, in the Christian worldview.
Preacher ReadsGUEST
Um, there's this book, um, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, which is a, uh, it's a fiction novel about grief.
Preacher ReadsGUEST
Um, and then there's a nonfiction novel called Remember Death by Matthew McCullough.
Preacher ReadsGUEST
I think all three of those, um, force us to actually deal with death.
speaker_0HOST
Going back to that deadline report from August 12th, Disney is developing a live action movie based on a Korean fantasy novel, The Dallergut Dream Department Store.
speaker_1HOST
With Patrick Ness writing the
speaker_0HOST
screenplay.
speaker_0HOST
All right.
Natalie DohertyGUEST
Yeah.
Natalie DohertyGUEST
Patrick Ness is amazing at voice.
Natalie DohertyGUEST
The Chaos Walking trilogy, the way those books are narrated, that character feels completely unique and distinct.
Natalie DohertyGUEST
That voice, when you read it, you think, I've never read anything quite like this.