Renée Zellweger Is Returning For a New ‘Bridget Jones’ Movie

There had been 4 Bridget Jones books, however there have been solely three Bridget Jones films made.

You see the place that is going proper? I imply, you will need to.

Some eight years after the newest movie, Bridget Jones’ Baby, Renée Zellweger will return because the title character in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, primarily based on the e-book of the identical title by writer Helen Fielding. Also returning can be longtime collection co-star Hugh Grant, together with Emma Thompson. The movie can even characteristic Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall.

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The Bridget Jones character started because the pseudonym of Fielding’s for a column within the English newspaper The Independent. The column, concerning the travails of a single girl in her 30s, grew to become standard, after which spawned the primary e-book, Bridget Jones’ Diary, which in flip grew into a best-seller, after which a hit movie adaptation, starring Zellweger (who shouldn’t be English).

Technically Mad About the Boy was the third of the 4 Bridget Jones books, nevertheless it was not tailored into the third Bridget Jones movie. (That was Bridget Jones’ Baby, which was additionally the title of the fourth e-book.)

The key title lacking from the solid checklist for this new film is Colin Firth, who appeared within the prior three movies alongside Zellweger. According to Wikipedia (which is rarely incorrect), Mad About the Boy “is set in present-day London; Bridget is 51, still keeping a diary, but is also immersed in texting and experimenting with social media. It is revealed in the book that Mark Darcy [Firth’s character] had died five years earlier and that they have two children, Billy and Mabel, aged seven and five respectively.”

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will premiere on Peacock for Valentine’s Day 2025.