Daisy Ridley Is an Axe-Wielding Vigilante in First Look at Zak Hilditch’s Survival Thriller ‘We Bury the Dead’
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Daisy Ridley, star of the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy, is a different kind of vigilante in Zak Hilditch‘s upcoming horror-survival-thriller “We Bury the Dead.” The film, which will have its world premiere at Australia‘s Adelaide Film Festival in November, unveiled a first look at 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. Ridley’s character looks haggard as she journeys to the south of Tasmania and is forced to make peace with her own unfinished business in the face of futility.
Production took place across Albany and the Great Southern region in Western Australia earlier this year. The film co-stars Brenton Thwaites (“Titans”) and Mark Coles Smith (“Mystery Road: Origin”). “We Bury the Dead” is Hilditch’s fourth feature film.
His previous credits are: “1922,” “These Final Hours” and “Rattlesnake.” The film is produced by Kelvin Munro and Grant Sputore of West Australia production company The Penguin Empire (“I Am Mother,” “The Furnace”), alongside Hilditch’s frequent collaborator Ross Dinerstein (“1922,” “Rattlesnake”) of Campfire Studios in the U.S.
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