Magpie Trailer: Daisy Ridley Gets Twisted in a Dark Thriller About a Fractured Marriage (Exclusive)

Daisy Ridley is at the center of an unraveling marriage in her neo-noir thriller Magpie.

PEOPLE has the exclusive first trailer for the film, which is based on an original idea from Ridley and written by her husband Tom Bateman, her costar from 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express.

Married couple Anette (Ridley) and Ben (Shazad Latif) see their lives “begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia (Matilda Lutz),” a synopsis teases. “As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to burst to the surface and destroy them all.”

Ridley, 32, tells PEOPLE that the inspiration behind the idea “came initially from the relationship I had with the little girl who played my daughter in a film.”

“It is amazing to see it come to life,” she adds. “We have made a film that we love, with characters and relationships I believe will resonate, and a thrill ride that I think audiences will really enjoy.”

Magpie had its debut at the 2024 South by Southwest film festival, with a memorable reaction from audiences. Ridley recalls, “We believed the SXSW audience would love the film, but nothing could prepare us for the joy of sitting in a movie theater all together with people cheering and whooping and whistling.”

“It is a film to relish, and we can’t wait for the post-credit discussions,” she adds.

Directed by Sam Yates, Magpie also stars Pippa Bennett-Warner, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete and Alistair Petrie. It’s produced by Kate Solomon (55 Films), Ridley and Bateman (Werewolf Films), Nadia Khamlichi and Sierra Garcia (Align) and Camilla Bray.

Director Yates says, “I am hugely excited to share Magpie with audiences in cinemas across the world and hope they enjoy the wild ride into the darkness of the human heart. It was a great pleasure to direct the brilliant, luminous Daisy Ridley in screenwriter Tom Bateman’s twisted noir.”

Magpie opens at Village East in New York, Los Angeles and additional select U.S. cities Oct. 25.