Following months of hypothesis, the studio behind Bridget Jones has confirmed their heroine will return for a fourth massive display outing, tailored from Helen Fielding’s 2013 novel Mad Concerning the Boy.
Hugh Grant is ready to reprise his position because the appallingly dashing Daniel Cleaver, having sat out the earlier instalment, 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Child. That film charted Bridget’s sudden being pregnant, which coincided with a love triangle as veteran on-off boyfriend Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and a brand new suitor performed by Patrick Dempsey vied for her affections.
Firth shouldn’t be returning for the fourth movie, which is ready 4 years after the earlier instalment and sees Bridget a widow with two young children, Mark having been killed by a landmine in Sudan.
Becoming a member of Grant and Renée Zellweger are Emma Thompson, who performed Bridget’s physician within the third movie, in addition to sequence newcomers Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall, the in a while a roll following breakthrough components in The White Lotus and One Day.
It has been prompt Woodall will play the new 30-year-old with whom Bridget begins sleeping as she begins relationship once more following her bereavement. Fielding has scripted the characteristic, which will likely be directed by Michael Morris, whose earlier movie was To Leslie, the drama starring Andrea Riseborough, who gained a shock Oscar nomination for her position final 12 months.
It’s the first time a person could have helmed a Bridget Jones characteristic; Sharon Maguire directed the primary and the third movies and Beeban Kidron the second.
Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy will shoot in London this summer season forward of a launch subsequent February, to coincide with Valentine’s Day. To date, the franchise has taken $760m on the field workplace, whereas the primary instalment in 2001 earned an Oscar nomination for Zellweger.
The movie, as with the others, will likely be produced by Working Title and launched by Common. Will probably be Zellweger’s first massive display position since 2019’s Judy, for which she gained an Academy Award for her position as Judy Garland.
Grant presently co-stars within the mini-series The Regime alongside Kate Winslet, whereas Thompson’s most up-to-date movie was Matilda: The Musical. Ejiofor’s second movie as a director, Rob Peace premiered at Sundance in January. Woodall is now taking pictures authorized drama Nuremberg alongside Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon.
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