Daisy Ridley to star in and produce indie film Sometimes I Think About Dying
The movie is directed by Rachel Lambert and it recently wrapped up production in Oregon
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Daisy Ridley is starring in and producing a new indie drama, Sometimes I Think About Dying. According to Deadline, the new film already wrapped up production in Oregon. The film will also star Dave Merheje, Meg Stalter, Bree Elrod and Parvesh Cheena, and is directed by Rachel Lambert.
The movie follows Fran, who, as the title suggests, likes to think about dying. It’s based on the play Killers by Kevin Armento (who wrote the script along with Stefanie Abel Horowitz and Katy Wright-Mead) and the short film Sometimes I Think About Dying.
Earlier this year, Ridley starred in the dystopian action film Chaos Walking alongside Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, and Cynthia Erivo. Next she’ll star in The Marsh King’s Daughter, a psychological thriller directed by Neil Burger and based on the novel of the same name. It finished filming earlier this year.
If fans are waiting for news that Ridley will reprise her Star Wars role, she made it clear at the end in 2020 that she has no plans to do so. Speaking of her character, Rey, she said, “I just don’t know what else she could do that I didn’t have to do.”
“Also, there are so many amazing characters in Star Wars, that it’s sort of an amazing thing,” she added. “I was watching the new episode of Mandalorian, and it’s just like the places it can go beyond even where it is now is so exciting.” At the same time, Star Wars fans know that actors return to the franchise all the time.
But that doesn’t mean Ridley is totally out of the Disney fold. She’s been attached to the upcoming film The Young Woman And The Sea, about the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel. That movie is in development to eventually land on Disney+.
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Sometimes? Amateurs.
ALL DAY, motherfuckers!
Shes the one who played Rey Palpatine in the Star Wars.
“What did you DO, Rey?!”
“I just don’t know what else she could do that I didn’t have to do.”
What does that mean?
I think an awkward way of saying “Rey’s journey is over and there’s nothing more I could add to the character.” Or, alternatively “I don’t want to star in a new trilogy where my new Jedi school fails and Disney turns me into a bitter mopey hermit who contemplates murdering family members.”
I hope the source material is actually good because the title is giving off serious “I’m 14 and this is deep” vibes.
“I’m 14 and this is deep” vibes
You mean any given Taylor Swift song?
Sometimes I Think About Dying, then I usually think about cheese and I feel better
I’m no editor of a pop culture website but if the film has already wrapped should the headline not read“Daisy Ridley starred in and produced indie film Sometimes I Think About Dying”I’m also no internet journalist, but if it’s such a big deal should I not have written this article a year or so ago and saved the editor of this pop culture website getting called out on their use of past and present tense by a dyslexic.
Hey, if people can use whatever pronouns they want, then verb tenses are also up for grabs. Don’t be a bigot by mis-tensing the article!
I apologize to the Editor and Journalist in question for questioning their right to identify as time travelers.
Anyone else get the vibe that Ridley’s answer was a polite way of saying, “You couldn’t pay me enough to return to the dumpster fire they made of my ‘Star Wars’ character”?
If the present controllers of the Star Wars IP decided for once not surrender with abject cowardice, actually committing to the plot point from IX that if Rey killed Palpatine, she’d turn evil and doing so from X onwards (plus for bonus points never redeeming the villain), there’s an at least outside chance they could make something interesting.Caveat: Actually hire someone good who knows what they’re doing and plan the whole thing from start to finish next time.
Pretty much every star of the Sequel Trilogy has said as much, and I don’t blame them.
“The fans are terrifying and I never got to make out with Oscar Isaac”