“We Bury the Dead,” the upcoming post-apocalyptic zombie thriller starring Daisy Ridley , has found a home in the U.K. and Ireland.

The film — written and directed by Zak Hilditch (“1922”) — has been acquired by Signature Entertainment from Neon International . Earlier this year, Vertigo bought North American rights.

The survival thriller follows Ava, a desperate woman whose husband is missing in the aftermath of a catastrophic military experiment. Hoping to find him alive, Ava joins a “body retrieval unit,” but her search takes a chilling turn when the corpses she’s burying start showing signs of life. Alongside Ridley, the film star Brenton Thwaites (“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”), Mark Coles Smith (“Last Cab to Darwin”) and Matt Whelan (“Narcos”).

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