Daisy Ridley Joins Thriller 'Cupid' With Darren Criss and Travis Fimmel

Daisy Ridley has joined the cast of Cupid, a psychological thriller directed by Tate Taylor, according to Deadline, published on 10 November 2026. Darren Criss, Travis Fimmel and Judy Greer have also joined, and the film is now shooting in Natchez, Mississippi.

Ridley and Criss play a couple trying to repair their marriage over a single weekend. Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as a marriage counsellor who seems helpful but works in unorthodox ways. The screenplay is by the Van Dyke brothers.

Taylor is producing alongside John Norris and Ryan Donnell Smith. The executive producers are Brian Edwards, Zack Sherman, Jon Hamm and Jaan Bains, the last of whom is listed for Time Zone Capital. An executive producer is usually a backer or senior figure who helps put a project together rather than running the day-to-day shoot.

The business side is also now in place. Upgrade is handling international sales, which means it will offer the film to distributors outside the United States. CAA Media Finance arranged the financing and holds the rights to distribute the film in the United States, according to the same report.

Those deals usually come together well before a film reaches a cinema. Sales agents often take a finished or nearly finished film to festivals and markets, where buyers decide which countries will show it.

Ridley and Criss join a cast that also includes Fimmel, known for his lead role in the television series Vikings, and Greer, who has appeared in a long run of film and television comedies and dramas. Taylor is best known as the director of The Help and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the latter a Netflix film that brought Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman to the screen.

Cast announcements like this one are often the first public sign that a film is moving from paperwork into production. For Cupid, that stage is now under way in Mississippi.