“Bad Bridgets” the Irish interval thriller that was one of many buzziest initiatives to launch finally 12 months’s American Movie Market, has discovered a house.
Netflix will launch the movie, which will likely be led by Emilia Jones (“CODA,” “Task”) and Alison Oliver, globally.
Oliver, who has starred in “Saltburn” and “Wuthering Heights,” lately changed Daisy Edgar-Jones, who was initially hooked up to play reverse Jones.
From writer-director Rich Peppiatt, who gained a BAFTA for his acclaimed directorial debut “Kneecap,” the movie is being produced by Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Leisure. It was impressed by the e book “Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women” by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick.
Set within the nineteenth century towards the backdrop of a famine-ravaged Eire, the story focuses on two sisters who make a treacherous journey to America to flee an abusive father, poverty and starvation. As soon as in New York, they be a part of the ranks of different Irish girls, the so-called “Bridgets,” creating mayhem within the metropolis.
The e book was optioned by Peppiatt and his “Kneecap” producer Trevor Birney in 2025, with the 2 producing alongside LuckyChap for his or her Coup d’Etat Movies banner, which launched in 2024.
“Bad Bridgets” will shoot in Northern Eire and Eire later in 2026. Oscar-winning manufacturing designer James Value and costume designer Kate Hawley are on board.
The movie was developed with the help of Queens College, Belfast.
FilmNation launched the bundle to worldwide consumers on the AFM, with WME Unbiased repping for the U.S.
