Daisy Ridley To Star in Futuristic Sci-Fi Drug Thriller MIND FALL
Star Wars star Daisy Ridley is set to star in a futuristic sci-fi thriller titled Mind Fall, which centers around a popular black-market drug. The movie will be directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (La Haine) from a script written by Graham Moore (The Imitation Game).
Mind Fall takes place in near-future London, “where the most sought-after drug on the black market is memories, physically removed from one person’s brain and implanted into another’s using a new illegal technology. Top trafficker, Ardis Varnado (Ridley) removes reminiscences from those looking for a quick buck, and then resells them to ‘clients,’ who pay top dollar for these ‘mems’ that bind to their subconscious, effectively becoming indistinguishable from their natural memories. Meanwhile, she battles her own addiction to the mems, often struggling to distinguish between the life she’s lived and the memories she’s implanted. So, when she’s accused of murdering one of her clients, Ardis’ instinct is to doubt her own mind. She decides to solve the crime herself, hoping to clear her name but questioning everything she’s ever thought to be real. And as she pulls back the layers, she realizes that she has every reason to do so.”
This seems like a different kind of role for Ridley as it seems darker than anything I recall seeing her in before. This sounds like an interesting story that should make for a solid film. It’s also a great project for Ridley to do something new and different.
Ridley most recently starred in Lionsgate fantasy pic Chaos Walking. She is in post-production on Neil Burger’s The Marsh King’s Daughter for STX.
Source: Deadline