Daisy Ridley Eyed to Star in Crime Thriller The Ice Beneath Her

Daisy Ridley is moving on from her star-making role as Rey in the recent The Rise of Skywalker. Consequently, Ridley’s would-be first role after that wild franchise ride could show her in different form, as a psychological profiler in a dark crime drama.

Talks have commenced with studio STX for Ridley to star in The Ice Beneath Her, an adaptation of Swedish author Camilla Grebe’s 2016 crime novel of the same name, Ready or Not. They will work off an adaptation script by Caitlin Parrish (Supergirl, The Red Line), also ed by producer Andrew Lazar (American Sniper).

The story of Grebe’s The Ice Beneath Her centers on—Ridley’s prospective role—criminal profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schön, a consultant to whom a pair of Stockholm homicide detectives have turned after reaching a dead end with the vexing case of an unidentified woman found decapitated in a suburban home, whose owner is conspicuously missing. The case is particularly disturbing, since it bears eerie similarities to an unsolved crime from 10 years earlier. Despite the contrast of content, the franchise prospects are strong here for Ridley, especially since the exploits of Hanne was subsequently showcased in Grebe’s 2017 follow-up, After She’s Gone: A Novel.

The next docket entry of the project’s eyed star, Daisy Ridley, is director Doug Liman’s long-gestating sci-fi offering, controversially reversed in The Rise of Skywalker.