“Unhealthy Bridgets,” the Irish interval thriller that was one of many hottest tasks debuting ultimately 12 months’s American Movie Market, has discovered its place.
Netflix will launch the movie, which might be directed by Emilia Jones (“CODA,” “Activity”) and Alison Oliver, globally.
Oliver, who starred in “Saltburn” and “Wuthering Heights,” just lately changed Daisy Edgar-Jones, who was initially set to star alongside Jones.
From writer-director Wealthy Peppiatt, who gained a BAFTA for his acclaimed directorial debut “Kneecap,” the movie is produced by Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Leisure. It was impressed by the e-book “Unhealthy Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Girls” by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick.
Set within the nineteenth century, towards the backdrop of famine-ravaged Eire, the story facilities on two sisters who undertake a dangerous 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”, wreaking havoc within the metropolis.
The e-book was optioned by Peppiatt and his producer “Kneecap” Trevor Birney in 2025, with the 2 producing alongside LuckyChap for his or her Coup d’Etat Movies banner, launching in 2024.
“Unhealthy Bridgets” might be filmed in Northern Eire and Eire later in 2026. Oscar-winning manufacturing designer James Worth and costume designer Kate Hawley are on board.
The movie was developed with help from Queens College Belfast.
FilmNation launched the package deal to worldwide patrons at AFM, with WME Unbiased representing the US