Daisy Ridley has signed on to star in the drama “Daddio,” Variety has reported.
Christy Hall wrote the script, which follows a woman who is picked up by a cab at JFK airport and driven to her apartment in Manhattan. On the way there, the woman and cabdriver begin discussing their past and current relationships and the effects those relationships have had on their lives.
CAA is arranging financing and will represent the film’s domestic distribution rights.
Next up for Daisy is Fox’s star-studded adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, opening in November, and Disney’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, out in December. She also stars in Claire McCarthy’s Hamlet re-imagining, Ophelia, and Lionsgate’s adaptation of Chaos Walking, opposite Tom Holland, and is part of the voice cast of Sony’s live-action/animated hybrid Peter Rabbit starring James Corden. She will also reprise her role as Rey in Star Wars: Episode IX, which will begin production in June 2018.
Daisy Ridley is repped by CAA and attorney Shelby Weiser.