After charming audiences as Rey in Disney and Lucasfilm’sStar Warssequel trilogy, Daisy Ridley has lined up a new sci-fi project. Ridley will return to her sci-fi, otherworld roots as the star of the upcoming futuristic thriller titledMind Fall.
Mind Fallwill be directed by Mathieu Kassovitz with a script from Graham Moore. The film’s complex story will take place in near-future London, where the most sought-after drug on the black market is memories, which are physically removed from one person’s brain and implanted into another’s using new advanced illegal technology.
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Deadline reportsStar Wars' Ridley will play the top trafficker Ardis Varnado, who makes a living trafficking memory implants on the black market. The memories or so-called “mems' bind to the subconscious, which makes it difficult for a person to distinguish between their own memories and someone else’s. Meanwhile, Ardis gradually deals with her struggling addiction to the “mems” she sells and eventually becomes wrapped up in the recent murder case of one of her clients that forces her to clear her own name.
The French filmmaker and actor Kassovitz is best known for directing the award-winning black and white drama featureLa Haineand starring in other acclaimed films such as 2001’s Oscar-nominatedAmélie. Kassovitz’s other English-language-directed filmsGothika (the supernatural horror film starring Halle Berry) andBabylon A.D. (the science fiction action filmstarring Vin Diesel) were met with poor reviews from critics, and the upcomingMind Fallproject will mark Kassovitz’s first time directing in roughly a decade.
With a talent like Ridley in the lead role and writer like Moore, who won the 2015 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar and WGA award for the Morten Tyldum-directed/Oscar-winning historical featureThe Imitation Game(which also starred inDoctor Strange’s Benedict Cumberbatchin a career-best performance),this may just be the bounce back film Kassovitz desperately needs.
After her breakout role as Rey intheStar Wars sequeltrilogy(a trilogy that began with much promise but ultimately divided fans due to the jumbled storylines and characters), Ridley went on to appear in films likeMurder on the Orient Express,Ophelia, andPeter Rabbit(as a voice actor). But similar to Kassovitz, she is also looking to bounce back after most recentlystarring opposite Tom Hollandin Doug Liman’s disastrousChaos Walking, a film that underwent countless delays. Ridley will also star in Neil Burger’s (Limitless, Divergent) upcoming psychological thrillerThe Marsh’s King, a film that is already in post-production.
