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  • Daisy Ridley returns to Star Wars   

    By Express News Service

    Lucasfilm has unveiled a new film set 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker which will star Daisy Ridley as she returns to the role of Rey Skywalker.

    The untitled film will focus on the formation of a new Jedi Order led by Rey, and will be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the director of Ms Marvel. Rey has taken on the title of Jedi Master in the film.

    Ridley was last seen in The Rise of Skywalker where her character claimed the name of Skywalker following her defeat of her grandfather, Sheev Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) at the conclusion of the movie.

    The sequel trilogy was based around her character and her rise from nobody into Jedi as she joined forces with Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) while battling against Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren.

    Lucasfilm has unveiled a new film set 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker which will star Daisy Ridley as she returns to the role of Rey Skywalker.

    The untitled film will focus on the formation of a new Jedi Order led by Rey, and will be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the director of Ms Marvel. Rey has taken on the title of Jedi Master in the film.

    Ridley was last seen in The Rise of Skywalker where her character claimed the name of Skywalker following her defeat of her grandfather, Sheev Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) at the conclusion of the movie.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    The sequel trilogy was based around her character and her rise from nobody into Jedi as she joined forces with Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) while battling against Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren.

  • Daisy Ridley to star in ‘The Better Liar’ for Amazon studios

    By Express News Service

    Actor Daisy Ridley who is best known for her role as Rey in the Star Wars franchise set to star in the series adaptation of Tanen Jones’s book The Better Liar for Amazon studios. 

    The series will also have the same title. Tornante Company has also partnered with Amazon studios to develop the series. 

    The Better Liar tells the story of a woman who hires a look-alike to conceal her sister’s death and claim their shared inheritance.

    Daisy Ridley also serves as an executive producer of the series along with  Raelle Tucker, who is also penning the script. Siobhan Bachman also executive produces for The Tornante Company.Daisy also stars in Magpie,   and The Marsh King’s Daughter.

    Actor Daisy Ridley who is best known for her role as Rey in the Star Wars franchise set to star in the series adaptation of Tanen Jones’s book The Better Liar for Amazon studios. 

    The series will also have the same title. Tornante Company has also partnered with Amazon studios to develop the series. 

    The Better Liar tells the story of a woman who hires a look-alike to conceal her sister’s death and claim their shared inheritance.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Daisy Ridley also serves as an executive producer of the series along with  Raelle Tucker, who is also penning the script. Siobhan Bachman also executive produces for The Tornante Company.
    Daisy also stars in Magpie,   and The Marsh King’s Daughter.

  • Daisy Ridley to star in ‘The Better Liar’ for Amazon studios

    By Express News Service

    Actor Daisy Ridley who is best known for her role as Rey in the Star Wars franchise set to star in the series adaptation of Tanen Jones’s book The Better Liar for Amazon studios. 

    The series will also have the same title. Tornante Company has also partnered with Amazon studios to develop the series. 

    The Better Liar tells the story of a woman who hires a look-alike to conceal her sister’s death and claim their shared inheritance.

    Daisy Ridley also serves as an executive producer of the series along with  Raelle Tucker, who is also penning the script. Siobhan Bachman also executive produces for The Tornante Company.Daisy also stars in Magpie,   and The Marsh King’s Daughter.

    Actor Daisy Ridley who is best known for her role as Rey in the Star Wars franchise set to star in the series adaptation of Tanen Jones’s book The Better Liar for Amazon studios. 

    The series will also have the same title. Tornante Company has also partnered with Amazon studios to develop the series. 

    The Better Liar tells the story of a woman who hires a look-alike to conceal her sister’s death and claim their shared inheritance.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    Daisy Ridley also serves as an executive producer of the series along with  Raelle Tucker, who is also penning the script. Siobhan Bachman also executive produces for The Tornante Company.
    Daisy also stars in Magpie,   and The Marsh King’s Daughter.

  • Daisy Ridley to headline noir thriller film Magpie

    By Express News Service

    Star Wars alum Daisy Ridley will headline an upcoming noir thriller film titled Magpie. The actor will star alongside Shazad Latif in the film, which also features Matilda Lutz. Based on an original idea by Ridley, the film has a script written by Tom Bateman. Award-winning British theatre director Sam Yates will make his feature directorial debut with the film.

    The story follows a couple whose lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star. Magpie is produced by Ridley and Bateman of Werewolf Films and Kate Solomon of 55 Films. The film is expected to begin production next year in London

    Ridley is best known for playing Rey in the Star Wars movies, The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). The actor will star next in the psychological thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter and in the biographical drama Young Woman and the Sea. 

  • Daisy Ridley to headline ‘Mind Fall’

    By Express News Service

    Actor Daisy Ridley will star in the upcoming science-fiction thriller titled Mind Fall. The film has a script penned by The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore and is set to be directed by French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz.

    Mind Fall is set in a near-future London where people use illegal technology to remove memories from someone’s mind and implant them into another. These memories, termed as ‘mems’, become the raging drug on the black market as people pay top dollars to bind memories to themselves. However, it makes it indistinguishable between what events they themselves lived and what they implanted.

    Ridley will play the role of a top mems trafficker named Ardis Vernado. She is also a struggling addict who gets high on their own supply. Mind Fall is produced by Jeff Robinov and John Graham of Studio 8. Ridley meanwhile, is also currently working on filmmaker Neil Burger’s The Marsh King’s Daughter. 

  • Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley-starrer ‘Chaos Walking’ to hit Indian theatres on March 4

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: Lionsgate India on Wednesday announced that its latest sci-fi movie “Chaos Walking”, starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley in the lead, will release in India on March 4.

    Based on author Patrick Ness’ sci-fi trilogy, the movie has been directed by filmmaker Doug Liman and also features Mads Mikkelsen and Nick Jonas.

    The story is about a dystopian world where there are no women, and all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise.

    “In the not-too-distant future, Todd Hewitt (Holland) discovers Viola (Ridley), a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet, where all the women have disappeared, and the men are afflicted by ‘The Noise’ — a force that puts all their thoughts on display.

    “In this dangerous landscape, Viola’s life is threatened — and as Todd vows to protect her, he will have to discover his own inner power and unlock the planet’s dark secrets,” the official plotline read.

    Lionsgate is bringing the movie to India in collaboration with Cinepolis India and Pen Marudhar.

    “We are thrilled to announce and take our first film to the theatre after a long wait.

    There is nothing better than watching a sci-fi action-adventure movie on a big screen.

    “We have taken all precautionary measure for screening ‘Chaos Walking’ our first theatrical release of the year 2021 with Cinepolis India and Pen Marudhar,” Amit Dhanuka, Executive Vice President at Lionsgate, said in a statement.

  • Daisy Ridley to topline psychological thriller ‘The Marsh King’s Daughter’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: “Star Wars” alum Daisy Ridley has signed on to play the lead role in new psychological thriller “The Marsh King’s Daughter”.

    The project, which hails from Black Bear, Anonymous Content and STX International, will be directed by Neil Burger of “Limitless” and “Divergent” fame.

    The movie is an adaptation of author Karen Dionne’s novel of the same title with Mark L Smith and Elle Smith penning the script, reported Deadline.

    Ridley will play Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, but hiding a dark secret: her father is the infamous “Marsh King”, the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years.

    After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.

    Ridley, known for starring as Rey in three “Star Wars” movies and Kenneth Branagh’s “Murder On The Orient Express”, is currently awaiting the release of sci-fi movie “Chaos Walking”, directed by Doug Liman and co-starring Tom Holland.