Daisy Ridley is about to join forces with another Star Wars alum in a new romance film. While fans are waiting to see Ridley return as Rey in her new Star Wars movie that keeps getting delayed, the actress has certainly stayed busy with films like Magpie, The Young Woman and the Sea, Cleaner, and We Bury the Dead. It seems like she has landed a new project while her Star Wars continuation gets off the ground, and she will share the screen with young Han Solo himself, Alden Ehrenreich.
Deadline reports that Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) are starring in the Philippines-set romantic comedy The Last Resort. The Last Resort has assembled an early 2000s dream team for romantic comedy fans, as it will be directed by Donald Petrie, best known for directing Miss Congeniality and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. The script is being penned by Karen McCullah, who previously wrote Legally Blonde and 10 Things I Hate About You. Asia Pacific Films is producing Last Resort.
The film will follow Brooke (Ridley), a woman who is determined to prove herself worthy of running her father’s hotel empire. When she travels to the Philippines to scout a new resort location, she meets Ben (Ehrenreich), a charming expatriate pilot who helps her discover the country’s beauty and a newfound sense of freedom. Brooke will eventually have to choose between the life she’s built and the one she’s only just begun to love, as her duty to her family collides with the love she begins to feel.
Is ‘The Last Resort’ the Closest Thing Fans Will Get To a Reylo Movie?
Daisy Ridley’s casting in a rom-com is certainly a delight for fans of recent romantic fiction, as an entire sub-industry of romance novels has been heavily inspired by Reylo, the fandom shipping of Rey and Kylo Ren from Star Wars. Titles like Love, Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood, and The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon started as Reylo fan-fiction, with lead female characters heavily inspired by Rey. While she isn’t starring in those, this certainly is the next best thing.
While the idea of a collaboration between the director of Miss Congeniality and the writer of Legally Blonde is exciting on paper, The Last Resort will likely have some controversy around it. The film’s decision to center a romance in the Philippines on two white actors can’t help but feel like it is another example of using another race, culture, and country as a background for a love story between two white protagonists. This is particularly troubling due to Ehrenreich’s character being the one to show Ridley the wonders of the Philippines as opposed to highlighting Filipino talent.
The idea of white characters going to other countries in films like The Darjeeling Limited and Eat, Pray, Love has become a wildly mocked trope where it was even a joke in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, so it will be interesting to see the reaction to The Last Resort.
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2025-03-18 01:10