Daisy Ridley to Star in Survival Thriller "We Bury the Dead"

English actress Daisy Ridley has found her next project – a survival thriller from Zak Hilditch, director of Stephen King's adaptation of 1922.

Ridley, who plays Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy and is returning to the franchise in the next movie, will star in "We Bury the Dead".

The movie is a story about grief, loss and the undead. Ridley plays Ava, a desperate woman whose husband is missing in the aftermath of a catastrophic military experiment. Hoping to find him alive, Ava joins a “body retrieval unit,” but her search takes a chilling turn when the corpses she’s burying start showing signs of life.

Filming will begin in February 2024 in western Australia. It is fully financed by Screen Australia, Screenwest, Lotterywest, the WA Regional Screen Fund, and Gramercy Park Media. As such, the production complies with the terms of the MEAA / SAG-AFTRA agreement as part of Global Rule One.

"We Bury The Dead" is written and directed by Hilditch and produced by The Penguin Empire’s Kelvin Munro and Grant Sputore, who produced I Am Mother, and Ross Dinerstein of Campfire Studios, who produces Netflix’s upcoming Players.

The movie will be co-produced by Gramercy Park Media with the company’s Joshua Harris and Mark Fasano serving as producers, and Nathan Klingher and Ford Corbett executive producing.

Neon and UTA Independent Film Group are launching international and domestic sales at AFM. Umbrella Entertainment will distribute the movie theatrically in Australia.

Next up for Ridley, she stars in "The Marsh King’s Daughter", starring opposite Ben Mendelsohn for director Neil Burger; "Young Woman and the Sea" from director Joachim Rønning; and "Sometimes I Think About Dying", in which Ridley both starred and produced.