MAGPIE Trailer (2024) Daisy Ridley, Drama Movie

MAGPIE Trailer (2024) Daisy Ridley, Drama Movie

MAGPIE Trailer (2024) Daisy Ridley, Drama Movie
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"The funny thing... I didn't tell anyone." Shout Studios has revealed an official trailer for Magpie, a neo-noir thriller from director Sam Yates, most known for theater in the UK. This initially premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, and is set for a theatrical release starting in late October this fall. This looks like it gets quite creepy. When Ben and Anette's daughter Matilda is cast in a film alongside glamorous movie star Alicia, relationships are pushed to the brink. "A twisty, wicked thriller." A couple find their lives turned upside-down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial major star. Magpie stars Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, and Alistair Petrie. This looks like a dark and nefarious thriller about what happens when jealousy and secrets overwhelm people. Described in reviews as an "engrossing" flick with a "slow-burn buildup." Worth a look.

Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Bateman & Yates' film Magpie, direct from Shout's YouTube:

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Based on an original idea by Daisy Ridley, Magpie is a stylish neo-noir thriller centered on married couple Anette (Daisy Ridley) and Ben (Shazad Latif), whose lives begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia (Matilda Lutz). As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, all their secrets and lies threaten to burst to the surface and destroy them all. Magpie is directed by British theater director / filmmaker Sam Yates, making his first feature film after many short films previously; he also directed National Theatre Live: Vanya earlier this year. The screenplay is written by Tom Bateman. Produced by Kate Solomon, Daisy Ridley, Tom Bateman, Camilla Bray, Nadia Khamlichi, and Sierra Garcia. This initially premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival earlier this year. Shout Studios will debut Magpie in select US theaters starting on October 25th, 2024 this fall. Who's interested in this?
The first trailer for Daisy Ridley's new thriller Magpie has dropped online ahead of its release.

The trailer opens with the Star Wars actor in a car, struggling to get her seatbelt on while a baby caries in the back. That's already stressful enough, but then things get even more tense as we see the premise of the film unfold.

Ridley's character Anette is seemingly stuck in a loveless marriage with husband Ben (Star Trek: Discovery's Shazad Latif), and his head starts getting turned by movie star Alicia (Revenge's Matilda Lutz) when their child is cast in a film production.

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Or at least, that's how she sees it. And that's enough for Anette to start taking action. What kind of sinister lengths will she go to?

The idea for the film came from Ridley herself, and judging from all the critics quoted in the trailer, she really throws herself into the role.

Ridley also recently received praise for another film, the biographical sports drama Young Woman and the Sea.

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To portray real-life US Olympian Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle, Ridley spent months undertaking open-water swimming training. In an exclusive interview with Digital Spy, she revealed that, despite all the work she had put in, she felt unprepared and scared when it came to filming the swimming scenes.

Looking ahead, Ridley has the zombie movie We Bury the Dead on the way, while at least one more movie following her Star Wars character Rey is in the works too.

Magpie will be released on October 25 in the US, and in November in the UK and Ireland.
Daisy Ridley is at the center of an unraveling marriage in her neo-noir thriller Magpie.

PEOPLE has the exclusive first trailer for the film, which is based on an original idea from Ridley and written by her husband Tom Bateman, her costar from 2017's Murder on the Orient Express.

Married couple Anette (Ridley) and Ben (Shazad Latif) see their lives "begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia (Matilda Lutz)," a synopsis teases. "As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to burst to the surface and destroy them all."

Ridley, 32, tells PEOPLE that the inspiration behind the idea "came initially from the relationship I had with the little girl who played my daughter in a film."

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Daisy Ridley, Hiba Ahmed and Matilda Lutz in "Magpie". Courtesy Rob Baker Ashton
"It is amazing to see it come to life," she adds. "We have made a film that we love, with characters and relationships I believe will resonate, and a thrill ride that I think audiences will really enjoy."

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Magpie had its debut at the 2024 South by Southwest film festival, with a memorable reaction from audiences. Ridley recalls, "We believed the SXSW audience would love the film, but nothing could prepare us for the joy of sitting in a movie theater all together with people cheering and whooping and whistling."

"It is a film to relish, and we can't wait for the post-credit discussions," she adds.

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Directed by Sam Yates, Magpie also stars Pippa Bennett-Warner, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete and Alistair Petrie. It's produced by Kate Solomon (55 Films), Ridley and Bateman (Werewolf Films), Nadia Khamlichi and Sierra Garcia (Align) and Camilla Bray.

Director Yates says, "I am hugely excited to share Magpie with audiences in cinemas across the world and hope they enjoy the wild ride into the darkness of the human heart. It was a great pleasure to direct the brilliant, luminous Daisy Ridley in screenwriter Tom Bateman’s twisted noir."

Magpie opens at Village East in New York, Los Angeles and additional select U.S. cities Oct. 25.
The trailer for Daisy Ridley‘s new dark thriller has been released.

The 32-year-old actress stars in the new movie Magpie, based an original idea she came up with, written by her husband Tom Bateman, and directed by Sam Yates.

Here’s the synopsis: “Magpie is a stylish neo-noir thriller centered on married couple Anette (Ridley) and Ben (Shazad Latif), whose lives begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia (Matilda Lutz). As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to burst to the surface and destroy them all.”

Pippa Bennett-Warner, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, and Alistair Petrie also star in the movie.

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Magpie hits theaters on Oct. 25.
Shout! Studios has released the official trailer for the neo-noir thriller series “Magpie” featuring “Star Wars” star Daisy Ridley.

The story centers around married couple Anette and Ben, whose lives begin to fracture when their young first daughter is cast in a film alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia.

After her husband begins to accompany their young first daughter to the film production, Anette starts suspecting that her husband is infatuated and may even be having an affair with the movie star.

With both the potential infidelity and the recent birth of their second daughter overwhelming her emotions, it’s not clear what she will do.

Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, and Alistair Petrie co-star. Sam Yates directs from a screenplay written by Tom Bateman based on an original idea by Ridley.

“Magpie” is scheduled to arrive in select cinemas on October 25th.
Shout! Studios has released the trailer for Magpie, the upcoming neo-noir thriller drama led by Daisy Ridley. The film is scheduled to arrive in select theaters on October 25.

“The film centers around married couple Anette and Ben, whose lives begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia,” reads the film’s synopsis. “As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to burst to the surface and destroy them all.”
Daisy Ridley‘s had a successful stint on the independent film scene post-“Star Wars” with the likes of “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” “The Marsh King’s Daughter,” and more. But her next film is a project of her own creation: an original idea she drew up with “Murder On The Orient Express” scribe Tom Bateman. Maybe this is the direction the actress’ career goes in while she waits to star in Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy‘s upcoming film about Rey and her new Jedi Academy?

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Let’s see how “Magpie” does in theaters before any predictions there. Ridley stars in the stylish neo-noir thriller as a wife who grows suspicious of her husband’s infatuation with a young, glamorous movie star. Is her spouse merely infested in their daughter’s acting career, or is there something more sinister going on?

Here’s an official synopsis for “Magpie”:

Based on an original idea by Daisy Ridley, written by Tom Bateman, and directed by Sam Yates, MAGPIE is a stylish neo-noir thriller centered on married couple Anette and Ben, whose lives begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia. As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to burst to the surface and destroy them all.

Along with Ridley, “Magpie” stars Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Pippa Bennett-Warner, and Hiba Ahmed. Cherrelle Skeete and Alistair Petrie round out the main cast.

Sam Yates directs a script by Bateman, based on an original idea by Ridley. Ridley also leads producers with Bateman and Kate Solomon, Camilla Bray, Nadia Khamlichi, and Sierra Garcia. Executive producers on the film include Adrian Politowski, Martin Metz, Nessa McGill, and Clare Hardwick. “Magpie” is a Werewolf Films and 55 Films production.

“Magpie” had its world premiere earlier this year at SXSW, where it received muted positive reviews from critics. So how will general audiences take to the neo-noir thriller? Find out when it hits theaters in NYC, LA, and other select US cities on October 25, courtesy of Shout! Studios. Watch a trailer for “Magpie” below.

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Daisy Ridley will forever be connected with her role as Rey in the Star Wars films, but it’s always been clear that her aspirations lead in a different direction. She’s kept busy with dramatic performances both big and small, in films such as Sometimes I Think About Dying, The Marsh King’s Daughter, and Young Woman and the Sea. The results have been mixed, frankly, but with her new film Magpie, it’s Ridley who has taken creative control for herself.

A neo-noir thriller, Magpie is based on an original story by Ridley, and penned by Tom Bateman who wrote her in Kenneth Branagh’s Murder On the Orient Express. The film is directed by Sam Yates.

SYNOPSIS: Based on an original idea by Daisy Ridley, written by Tom Bateman, and directed by Sam Yates, MAGPIE is a stylish neo-noir thriller centered on married couple Anette and Ben, whose lives begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia. As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to burst to the surface and destroy them all.

Joining Ridley in the cast are Star Trek: Discovery actor Shazad Latif, and Matilda Lutz from the upcoming Red Sonja film.

Shout! Studios will release Magpie in NY, LA, and other select cities on October 25th.

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How distraught is Annette, the severely troubled British mother of two played by Daisy Ridley in “Magpie?” She has gotten a short angular haircut, one that might, in another context, be the height of chic (very Isabella Rossellini). Except that the movie uses it as a symbolic expression of her trauma, like Mia Farrow’s iconic Vidal Sassoon cut in “Rosemary’s Baby.” Annette, who’s on some serious medication, looks at a mirror until it breaks. Does she have telekinetic powers? No, she broke it with her hand (which bleeds into the sink), but the force of her repressed rage is palpable. Ben (Shazad Latif), her British Indian husband, is a noted author, and every comment she makes about his work is a sly dig. She speaks in brief, clipped “civilized” phrases. At one point a bird crashes into the window of her home. The whole atmosphere of the film is suffused with her cold anger.

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Annette is suffering from something profound, but it’s not an illness. It’s the blues that can overwhelm mothers who are raising young children and feel alone, isolated, maybe abandoned. Ben, it turns out, committed a primal sin, and it was simply this: After their son, Lucas, was born, he went away for months to research a book, with no awareness of how much Annette needed him. He put all the responsibility on her, and when he returned, she was never the same.

The complex and even traumatized undercurrent that some mothers experience isn’t merely a good subject for a movie; it’s one that’s long overdue. Yet “Magpie” presents Annette to the audience in a way that seems rather extreme, and the entire movie is like that. Most of us don’t blink an eye at cinematic real-estate porn, but the house that Annette and Ben have in the country outside London is as huge and roomy as a museum. When Annette goes to lunch with a former colleague, the stiltedness of their connection — and the sound of Lucas crying in the restaurant — infuses every moment with awkwardness. And then the plot kicks in. Annette and Ben’s daughter, Matilda (Hiba Ahmed), who’s around eight, has been cast in a big-budget costume drama, where she’s set to play the daughter of the main character, who’s being portrayed by a glamorous Italian movie star named Alicia (Matilda Lutz).

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Ben is chaperoning Matilda on the set, and we’re cued, from minute one, to see that he and Alicia have a connection, and that he’s pursuing her with a kind of creepy fixation. In case we miss the point, a tabloid website runs a paparazzi shot of the two them, asking who Alicia’s new “mystery man” is…and it’s only the second day of the shoot. Much of “Magpie” feels overstated in that way. The film shows us Ben’s interest piqued by a celebrity sex tape of Alicia. But does it have to underline the point by having him masturbate to it in the shower, and having Annette hear him through the door? As Ben and Alicia develop a mutual crush, the atmosphere the film seems to be going for is gloomy indie “Fatal Attraction.” And my thought was: “Fatal Attraction” was a lot subtler.

As “Magpie” goes on, though, a funny thing happens. You begin to settle into the film’s overly telegraphed style, its mixture of obviousness and enigma. You accept that this is not Hitchcock, or even Adrian Lyne. The first-time director, Sam Yates, working from a utilitarian script by Tom Bateman, slathers on mood, yet there’s a primitive charge to the film’s no-frills staging. You want to see what’s going to happen next. And Daisy Ridley, whose idea the movie was based on, knows exactly what she’s doing. She dares to play Annette as brittle and “unreasonable,” because that’s just how a man like Ben would view her. A classic gaslighter, he has no idea that he’s the problem: his entitlement, his cluelessness about what mothers actually go through. He just wants to leave it all behind and plunge into an affair with Alicia, whose attentions are so flattering. The two begin to text, flirtatiously and then ardently. He thinks that he’s found a way out of his doldrums. But he has no idea what’s really happening. And neither does the audience.

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Shazad Latif, with his tall handsomeness, his gentle grin, and his man-bun, plays Ben as someone who has worked hard to be sensitive, and therefore thinks that what he wants he deserves. But he’s deluded. He is, on the film’s own terms, toxic, but “Magpie” isn’t a harangue. It’s a thriller, and for all the Screenwriting 101 simplicity of many of its scenes, it builds toward a climax that’s disarmingly satisfying. It’s one of those “Usual Suspects”/ ”Saltburn” twists, which means that you have to accept that there’s a certain only-in-the-movies logic to it. But when the twist arrives, it has a kicky crowd-pleasing resonance. It’s not just about playing games. It’s about a mother saying just how much she wants to be loved.

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‘Magpie’ Review: Daisy Ridley in a Thriller About Motherhood, Loneliness and a Husband with a Fatal Attraction
Reviewed at SXSW (Narrative Spotlight), March 9, 2024. MPA Rating: R. Running time: 90 MIN.
Production: A Werewolf Films, 55 Films, Align production. Producers: Kate Solomon, Daisy Ridley, Tom Bateman, Camilla Bray, Nadia Khamlichi, Sierra Garcia. Executive producers: Adrian Politowski, Martin Metz, Nessa McGill, Clare Hardwick.
Crew: Director: Sam Yates. Screenplay: Tom Bateman. Camera: Laura Bellingham. Editor: Christopher Watson. Music: Isobel Waller-Bridge.
With: Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Hiba Ahmed, Cherelle Skeete, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Alistair Petrie.