Following months of hypothesis, the studio behind Bridget Jones has confirmed their heroine will return for a fourth massive display screen outing, tailored from Helen Fielding’s 2013 novel Mad Concerning the Boy.
Hugh Grant is about 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 about 4 years after the earlier instalment and sees Bridget a widow with two babies, 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 elements in The White Lotus and One Day.
Is has been instructed Woodall will play the recent 30-year-old with whom Bridget begins sleeping as she begins courting once more following her bereavement. Fielding has scripted the characteristic, which might be directed by Michael Morris, whose earlier movie was To Leslie, the drama starring Andrea Riseborough, who received a shock Oscar nomination for her position final 12 months.
It’s the first time a person may 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, might be produced by Working Title and launched by Common. It is going to be Zellweger’s first massive display screen position since 2019’s Judy, for which she received an Academy Award for her position as Judy Garland.
Grant at the moment 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.
