Twisters star Daisy Edgar-Jones and CODA star Emilia Jones will topline a period revenge thriller currently titled Bad Bridgets, which is serving as the follow-up feature for Rich Peppiatt, the rising director behind British hit Kneecap.
FilmNation will be handling international sales, and WME Independent is on for domestic sales for the title, which will be officially introduced at November’s American Film Market.
LuckyChap and Coup d’Etat, the latter being Peppiatt’s production banner, are producing. The project is far enough along that is has Oscar winning production designer James Price (Poor Things) and costume designer Kate Hawley (Crimson Peak) on board. The producers are eyeing a shoot in Northern Ireland and Ireland in spring 2026.
The script was inspired by the book Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick and has been developed with the support of Belfast’s Queens University.
The book looked at the world of Bad Bridgets, a swath of Irish women emigrants that were deemed troublemakers, noting that for a time Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison (it didn’t help that some of the women locked up were in there for “stubbornness.”)
Per the producers, the script’s story begins when a mysterious letter sets a young woman on a perilous journey from famine-ravaged Ireland to 19th century New York, where she joins the ranks of Irish Bridgets creating mayhem in the city.
Peppiatt’s Kneecap became the most nominated debut in BAFTA history, while also claiming seven British Independent Film Awards, five IFTAs and breakthrough British/Irish filmmaker at the London Critics Circle. He is repped by WME, Anonymous Content and MMB Creative.
Daisy Edgar Jones is repped by UTA, B-Side Management, and Sloane Offer.
Emilia Jones is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and UK’s Artist Rights Group.
