Collin Firth and Hugh Grant starred alongside Zellweger in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001). Picture / Information Corp Australia
Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant will step again into their well-known roles for the fourth movie within the franchise. Extra castmembers have been introduced.
Mud off your large pants, there’s a brand new Bridget Jones film within the pipeline.
Following earlier reporting and hypothesis concerning the manufacturing, this week Common Footage and Working Title confirmed the movie,
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, primarily based on Helen Fielding’s 2013 e-book, will likely be directed by Michael Morris – who made the acclaimed To Leslie – and is predicted to be launched on Valentine’s Day, 2025.
The story follows Jones, now a singleton as soon as extra, traversing romance within the fashionable world (together with relationship apps and dalliances with youthful males) as she juggles life as a single mom.
Filming will start in Could, studies The Mail On Sunday. “Filming is being mapped out already and all the pre-production is in place, a supply instructed the paper. “Renee is happy about bringing Bridget again. She adores the character a lot.”
In excellent news for followers, Hugh Grant can be returning, reprising caddish Daniel Cleaver.
Different A-listers set to star are Chiwetel Ejiofor and Emma Thompson, who will reprise her position of Physician Rawling from Bridget Jones’s Child (2016). They’ll be joined by rising expertise Leo Woodall, who’s driving the success of his roles in One Day and White Lotus.
It’s uncertain that Colin Firth will be a part of them, with Marc Darcy’s character arc ending within the e-book, nevertheless the movie could depart from that plot.
With information of the fourth movie within the franchise, it cements the Bridget Jones cinematic universe as an expansive one.
Now one thing of a cultural icon, Bridget first got here to life as an nameless, satirical column within the Impartial, earlier than Helen Fielding turned her character right into a novel, Bridget Jones’s Diary, launched in 1996, adopted by a sequel The Fringe of Motive, in 1999.
Fielding and Bridget outlined and lampooned points of life within the Nineties, and the books had been translated for the display.
Bridget Jones’s Diary was a smash hit when it was launched in 2001, incomes 10 occasions what it price to make, and incomes a legion of followers. Zellweger was nominated for an academy award for the position.
Ensuing movies – Bridget Jones: The Fringe of Motive (2004) and Bridget Jones’s Child (2016) – adopted the travails of Bridget’s profession and love life, and the character has turn out to be a pivotal a part of the romantic style and resonated with many ladies.
There’s been criticism in recent times as individuals revisit the books and movies, taking it actually, however when contemplating the supply materials and Fielding’s intention with the character, we bear in mind Bridget Jones acts as a mirror of the occasions – magnificence requirements, societal expectation, class tensions and extra.
What’s going to she replicate within the fourth movie? Time will inform.
