{"id":2127784,"date":"2025-10-31T21:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2127784"},"modified":"2025-10-31T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:16:18","slug":"daisy-edgar-jones-emilia-jones-to-star-in-irish-period-thriller-for-kneecap-director-rich-peppiatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/daisy-edgar-jones-emilia-jones-to-star-in-irish-period-thriller-for-kneecap-director-rich-peppiatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Daisy Edgar-Jones, Emilia Jones to Star in Irish Period Thriller for \u2018Kneecap\u2019 Director Rich Peppiatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12584954\/\">Twisters<\/a> star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8402992\/\">Daisy Edgar-Jones<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0492648\/\">Coda<\/a> star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4454223\/\">Emilia Jones<\/a> will topline a period revenge thriller currently titled Bad Bridgets, which is serving as the follow-up feature for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5441396\/\">Rich Peppiatt<\/a>, the rising director behind British hit <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27367464\/\">Kneecap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FilmNation will be handling international sales, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0371830\/\">WME Independent<\/a> is on for domestic sales for the title, which will be officially introduced at November\u2019s American Film Market.<\/p>\n<p>LuckyChap and Coup d\u2019Etat, the latter being Peppiatt\u2019s production banner, are producing. The project is far enough along that is has Oscar winning production designer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1483016\/\">James Price<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14230458\/\">Poor Things<\/a>) and costume designer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1661457\/\">Kate Hawley<\/a> (Crimson Peak) on board. The producers are eyeing a shoot in Northern Ireland and Ireland in spring 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The script was inspired by the book Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7577201\/\">Elaine Farrell<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12276209\/\">Leanne McCormick<\/a> and has been developed with the support of Belfast\u2019s Queens University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2127785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2127784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Daisy-Edgar-Jones-Emilia-Jones-to-Star-in-Irish-Period-Thriller.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127786,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127784\/revisions\/2127786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}