Daisy Ridley Might Play Lead In A Woman Of No Importance

 

Daisy Ridley is on the verge of headlining A Woman Of No Importance for Paramount Pictures. Based on Sonia Purnell’s novel of the same name, Paramount has officially landed rights to the WWII spy thriller and is reportedly eager to fast-track an adaptation into development.

Assuming those pieces fall into place, Ridley will take point as Virginia Hall, a decorated super-spy who “attempted to break into the ranks of the American Foreign Service in the years before World War II. Rejected because of gender and a disability Hall worked during the war for the British intelligence unit SOE.” Hall went on to enroll in the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime intelligence agency that would go on to seed the creation of America’s CIA.

For Paramount, the hunt is now on for a producer and writer to whip the project into shape, meaning there’s currently no mention of when A Woman Of No Importance will be ushered before the cameras. Beyond wartime drama and subterfuge, Daisy Ridley has lined up both Murder on the Orient Express (November 22) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (December 15) for later this year.