Daisy Ridley is set to lead We Bury The Dead, a survival thriller from director Zak Hilditch (1922) as a woman part of a “body retrieval unit” who discovers the corpses she’s burying are coming back to life.
Per Deadline, We Bury The Dead is “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.”
Ridley has been gaining some steam in the thriller genre as she will soon be seen in The Marsh King’s Daughter as a woman hunting her convicted and escaped father in the wilderness. She is most known for playing Rey in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and will reprise her role in the next Star Wars film. “Having Daisy play the role of Ava is an absolute dream come true. She embodies the perfect mix of vulnerability, grit and determination that Ava exudes throughout the film,” said Hilditch, who also wrote the screenplay.
We Bury The Dead will be produced by The Penguin Empire’s Kelvin Munro and Grant Sputore and Campfire Sutdios’ Ross Dinerstein. Also producing is Gramercy Park Media’s Joshua Harris and Mark Fasano and Nathan Klingher and Ford Corbett executive producing. Neon, which just announced the It Follows sequel They Follow, and UTA Independent Film Group will launch sales at AFM this week.
“We’re thrilled to join forces with Zak and Campfire on this project,” said Sputore. “Zak is uniquely gifted when it comes to making movies that are just as moving as they are terrifying. Bringing one of his projects to our home state of Western Australia is especially exciting.”
“Zak is an immensely talented storyteller, and we’re ecstatic to reteam for our third feature together,” Dinerstein said. “With the brilliant Daisy Ridley onboard and Zak’s spectacularly unnerving and poignant script, we can’t wait to dig into production and bring this film to audiences.”
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