Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Daisy Ridley will lead a rather interesting looking biopic for Paramount, per Deadline. The movie is called A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE and is about real life spy Virginia Hall who was a crucial player in British Intelligence's Special Operations Executive (SOE), an elite team of spies, saboteurs and resistance trainers who were also known as Churchill's Secret Army.
Hall was also a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which eventually became the CIA.
She's a pretty key figure in the Allies' fight against the Axis powers even though her name isn't famous. A quick trip to Wikipedia shows that the Gestapo reportedly considered her the most dangerous of Allied spies. She helped organize the French Underground in 1941 before returning in 1944 to train the French Resistance in guerilla warfare.
She did all this all with a wooden leg, by the way. The wooden leg even had its own codename: Cuthbert. The Germans knew her only as "the limping lady" who evaded their grasp multiple times.
It's an incredible story and we already know Ridley has all the charm in the world to pull off a spy and the grit to pull off the resistance fighter. This stands a chance of being something special. Now we just need to find out who's writing the screenplay and directing.
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-Eric Vespe
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