Daisy Ridley Wields an Axe in We Bury the Dead First Look Photos

Daisy Ridley, star of the “Star Wars” trilogy, is a different kind of fighter in director Zack Hilditch's upcoming survival horror thriller “We Bury the Dead.”

The film, which will have its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in Australia in November, offers the first look at Ridley as a desperate woman who joins a body recovery unit in the hope of finding her husband alive after a disastrous military experiment devastates the population of Tasmania. As Ridley digs through the bodies, she discovers that many of them are not quite dead.

Ridley's character appears exhausted during her journey to southern Tasmania and is forced to come to terms with her unfinished business in the face of futility.

The film was produced in Albany and the Great Southern region of Western Australia earlier this year. The film also stars Brenton Thwaites (“Titans”) and Mark Coles-Smith (“Mystery Road: Origin”).

We Bury the Dead is Hilditch's fourth feature film. His previous works include 1922, These Final Hours, and The Rattlesnake.

The film is produced by Kelvin Munro and Grant Sputore of Western Australia's The Penguin Empire (“I Am Mother”, “The Furnace”), along with frequent Hilditch collaborator Ross Dinerstein (“1922”, “Rattlesnake”) of Campfire Studios in the United States. Joshua Harris and Mark Fasano of Gramercy Park are also producing, with Nathan Klingher and Ford Corbett serving as executive producers. Ari Harrison and Jeff Harrison of Umbrella Entertainment also serve as executive producers.

We Bury the Dead is a Penguin Empire production in partnership with Campfire Studios. It has attracted significant production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screenwest, Lotterywest and the WA Regional Screen Fund. Additional funding has come from Gramercy Park Media and Peachtree Media Partners. Domestic distribution is by Umbrella Entertainment, while international sales are handled by Neon and UTA Independent Film Group.

Ridley, who recently helmed “The Swamp King's Daughter” and “The Young Woman and the Sea” and starred in “Sometimes I Think of Dying,” is expected to return to the “Star Wars” franchise in “Star Wars: The New Jedi Order,” a new film set after the events of “The Rise of Skywalker.”