Colin Farrell (Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges), Steve Coogan (Philomena, Legends), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Issues, Trade) and Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, Echo Valley) have joined the solid of Irish interval revenge thriller Unhealthy Bridgets, Netflix unveiled on Tuesday.
Additionally solid for roles within the characteristic written, produced and directed by Kneecap director Wealthy Peppiatt have been Himesh Patel (Yesterday, The Odyssey), Niamh Algar (The Iris Affair, Mary & George) and Simone Kirby (Kneecap, His Darkish Supplies).
The brand new names be a part of Emilia Jones (CODA, Job) and Alison Oliver (Wuthering Heights) within the manufacturing from LuckyChap, run by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerly, Josey McNamara, and Milan Popelka, and Peppiatt’s Coup d’Etat banner. The chief producer of Unhealthy Bridgets is Cáit Collins, the cinematographer is BAFTA winner Ryan Kernaghan (Kneecap, Trespasses), manufacturing design is courtesy of Oscar and BAFTA winner James Value (Poor Issues), and the costume designer is Oscar and BAFTA winner Kate Hawley (Frankenstein).
“When a mysterious letter providing escape leads a younger Irish girl to Nineteenth-century New York, she is pulled into the unruly world of the Bridgets, the place mayhem follows in her wake,” reads a logline for the film.
The script was impressed by the historical past ebook Unhealthy Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Girls by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick and has been developed with the help of Belfast’s Queens College. It’s being produced with help from Northern Eire Display screen. The ebook was optioned by Peppiatt and his Kneecap producer Trevor Birney in 2025.
The ebook appeared on the world of a swath of Irish ladies emigrants who had been deemed troublemakers, highlighting that for a time period, Irish ladies outnumbered Irish males in jail. The venture was a sizzling gross sales titles finally fall’s American Movie Market.
Unhealthy Bridgets will begin taking pictures on location in Northern Eire and Eire in mid-July.
