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JJ Abrams, Daisy Ridley to continue their Star Wars partnership in Kolma
Actor Daisy Ridley is set to reunite with her Star Wars: The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams on an upcoming fantasy thriller, Kolma.
Actor Daisy Ridley is set to reunite with her Star Wars: The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams on an upcoming fantasy thriller, Kolma.
Abrams will produce the new film, for which 24-year-old Ridley is in talks to star in, said The Hollywood Reporter.
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl director Marielle Heller is in talks to helm Kolma.
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The picture is based on the 2003 Israeli TV movie All I’ve Got (Kol Ma She’Yesh Li).
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It follows a 22-year-old woman who is in a terrible car accident that kills her boyfriend. Then, decades later, when the woman dies, she’s given the choice of returning to the day of the accident to live again as a 22-year-old or being reunited with her love.
Abrams is producing the new film along with Ram Bergman, David Lonner and Sherryl Clark. Megan Holley (Sunshine Cleaning) wrote the script.
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