Who needs a lightsaber when you’ve got a trusty ol’ axe to swing around? Daisy Ridley will pick up the gleaming blade again in a future Star Wars movie, but first she’ll chop up the undead in the upcoming survival thriller, We Bury the Dead. Variety has the first images of Ridley in the film from Australian director Zak Hilditch.
Premiering this November at the Adelaide Film Festival in November, We Bury the Dead stars Ridley in the role of a desperate woman who joins a body retrieval unit, hoping to find her husband alive after a disastrous military experiment destroys the population of Tasmania. As she sifts through the corpses, she discovers that many are not quite dead. She she journeys south, she must make peace with her own unfinished business in the face of futility.
Joining Ridley in the cast are Brenton Thwaites (Titans) and Cole Smith. The film marks Hilditch’s fourth feature. His most recent film, Rattlesnake, was released in 2019 and starred Theo Rossi and Carmen Ejogo.
Ridley was last seen in the Disney drama Young Woman and the Sea, and earlier this year in Sometimes I Think About Dying.
A trailer for We Bury the Dead is likely to arrive soon.
