While we’re still waiting to hear when “Star Wars: New Jedi Order” will head into production, the film’s star Daisy Ridley is reportedly lining up a comic book movie adaptation – and it’s not a Marvel or DC title.
Scooper DanielRPK is reporting that Ridley is in negotiations to star in an adaptation of Tony Cliff’s 2013 action adventure graphic novel “Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant”.
Disney has had the screen right to the property since 2016, but there’s been no movement on the project in the years since.
Blending elements of Indiana Jones, Horatio Hornblower, Corto Maltese, Sharpe and James Bond, the comic is set in the early 19th century and follows Delilah, an adventure seeker trained in 47 sword fighting techniques who fights pirates while travelling the world on her flying boat.
Delilah’s adventures taker her across Japan, Indonesia, France, and the New World – using her skills to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. With the aid of her newfound friend, Selim, she evades the Sultan’s guards, leaves angry pirates in the dust, and fights her way through the countryside.
Roy Lee, Mark Mower, and Justin Giritlian were attached as producers back in 2016, it’s not clear if they’re still involved.
