Wuthering Heights star Alison Oliver replaces Daisy Edgar-Jones in Kneecap director's new thriller

Alison Oliver is reportedly replacing Daisy Edgar-Jones in Bad Bridgets.

The Wuthering Heights actress has joined the upcoming Irish period revenge thriller from Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, she is replacing Twisters star Edgar-Jones, who had to leave the project due to scheduling conflicts.

Emilia Jones is still on board the star in the film, which is being produced by Peppiat's Coup d'Etat banner, alongside Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerly, Josey McNamara and Milan Popelka's LuckyChap studio.

The script has been inspired by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick's book Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women.

The screenplay has been developed with the support of Belfast's Queens University, with production set to get underway early this summer.

The book explores the so-called Brad Bridgets, who were Irish women emigrants deemed troublemakers, with the Irish women outnumbering the Irish men in prison for a period, although some of the women behind bars were locked up for "stubbornness".

For the film, the story starts with a mysterious letter sparking a young women's perilous journey from Ireland to 19th century New York.

There, she joins the ranks fo the Irish Bridgets.

Production designer James Price and costume designer Kate Hawley are attached to the film, which will mark Oliver's third collaboration with LuckyChap.

As well as starring as Isabella Linton alongside Robbie in Wuthering Heights, she also appeared in 2023's Saltburn.

Meanwhile, earlier this month it was reported Normal People actress Edgar-Jones is in final negotiations to star in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.

The movie is based on Gabrielle Zevin's best-selling novel of the same name, with Sian Heder writer and directing the adaptation based on drafts written by Mark Bomback and the author herself.

The book is a modern love story set amongst the rising video game industry of the 1990s-2000s and follows two friends who first meet as children but reunite in adulthood to create video games, where they find the intimacy in digital storytelling that has been missing from their real lives.