Twisters star Daisy Edgar-Jones and CODA star Emilia Jones will topline a interval revenge thriller at the moment titled Unhealthy Bridgets, which is serving because the follow-up function for Wealthy Peppiatt, the rising director behind British hit Kneecap.
FilmNation will probably be dealing with worldwide gross sales, and WME Unbiased is on for home gross sales for the title, which will probably be formally launched at November’s American Movie Market.
LuckyChap and Coup d’Etat, the latter being Peppiatt’s manufacturing banner, are producing. The venture is much sufficient alongside that’s has Oscar successful manufacturing designer James Worth (Poor Issues) and costume designer Kate Hawley (Crimson Peak) on board. The producers are eyeing a shoot in Northern Eire and Eire in spring 2026.
The script was impressed by the ebook Unhealthy Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Ladies by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick and has been developed with the assist of Belfast’s Queens College.
The ebook seemed on the world of Unhealthy Bridgets, a swath of Irish girls emigrants that had been deemed troublemakers, noting that for a time Irish girls outnumbered Irish males in jail (it didn’t assist that a number of the girls locked up had been in there for “stubbornness.”)
Per the producers, the script’s story begins when a mysterious letter units a younger lady on a dangerous journey from famine-ravaged Eire to nineteenth century New York, the place she joins the ranks of Irish Bridgets creating mayhem within the metropolis.
Peppiatt’s Kneecap grew to become essentially the most nominated debut in BAFTA historical past, whereas additionally claiming seven British Unbiased Movie Awards, 5 IFTAs and breakthrough British/Irish filmmaker on the London Critics Circle. He’s repped by WME, Nameless Content material and MMB Inventive.
Daisy Edgar Jones is repped by UTA, B-Facet Administration, and Sloane Supply.
Emilia Jones is repped by CAA, Brillstein Leisure Companions and UK’s Artist Rights Group.
