Before Daisy Ridley Returns to Star Wars, She’s Gotta Fight Off Zombies

It whitethorn beryllium some time earlier fans get to spot Daisy Ridley reprise her relation arsenic Rey successful Star Wars, but that isn’t stopping them from seeing her footwear ass arsenic an axe-wielding vigilante successful an upcoming fearfulness movie called We Bury the Dead.

In We Bury the Dead, directed by Zak Hilditch, Riley plays a pistillate called Ava, retrieving bodies pursuing a disastrous subject experimentation successful Tasmania. While the thankless occupation of corpse retrieval is risky enough, Ava’s willingness to instrumentality connected the occupation stems from her desperation to uncover whether oregon not her hubby is among the casualties. Somewhere on her frantic journey, burying bodies (as the rubric signposts), Ava discovers the undead person turned into zombies. While this constituent of the film’s logline reads similar immoderate different ragamuffin zombie flick, Ava is nonplussed by her perilous concern and takes matters into her ain hands, which person an axe affixed to them. Badass. And apparently, manager Hilditch agrees.

“Having Daisy play the relation of Ava is an implicit imagination travel true,” Hilditch, whose erstwhile credits see Stephen King adaptation 1922 for Netflix, said successful an October interrogation with Deadline. “She embodies the cleanable premix of vulnerability, grit, and determination that Ava exudes passim the film.”

Ridley has kept herself engaged successful the agelong hold for her instrumentality to the postulation far, acold distant arsenic portion of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s planned “New Jedi Order” film, acceptable aft the events of The Rise of Skywalker. Most precocious she made a wave, rather literally, backmost with Disney portraying Gertrude Ederle, the archetypal pistillate to aquatics the English Channel, successful Joachim Rønning’s Young Woman and the Sea. But adjacent as Star Wars‘ aboriginal remains successful flux, Ridley remains excited to commercialized her axe successful for a lightsaber erstwhile more.

“Why wouldn’t I [do it]? Yes, [Star Wars movies] person been divisive, but besides they bring a batch of emotion and joyousness to a batch of people,” Ridley told Empire earlier this year astir her instrumentality to Star Wars. “It feels beauteous astonishing to beryllium capable to proceed a character–like, tin I adjacent retrieve however to play her? It’s an absorbing situation arsenic an histrion to travel backmost to thing and effort to fig retired what’s changed for maine and what’s changed for her.”

We Bury the Dead was archetypal announced last October. According to Variety, the movie volition premiere successful November astatine Australia‘s Adelaide Film Festival.

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