Oscar nominee Renée Zellweger will return to her role in Hugh Grant Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
The highly anticipated sequel will star Hugh Grant Bridget Jones, Emma Thompson, Leo Woodall (One Day, The White Lotus), and Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, Doctor Strange).
The movie from Universal Pictures/Working Title will be directed by Michael Morris (To Leslie, Better Call Saul).
Whether Colin Firth will play Bridget’s first love, Mark Darcy, again is a mystery.
Helen Fielding first made Bridget Jones, who has been unmarried her entire life, public through her Independent column.
Independent asked me to write about London singles. Fielding adds “I said no because, ironically, I thought it would be embarrassing and exposing.” “Yesss!” Responded to senior editor Charlie Leadbeater’s character writing offer.
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Fielding’s 1996 novel, The Edge of Reason, was published in 1999.
The movie adaptation of Bridget Jones’s Diary got underway in 2001. In 2004 and 2016, respectively, the sequels, Bridget Jones’s Baby and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, debuted. Around the world, these three movies brought in $760 million.
The sequel will be based on Bridget Jones’s Diary: Mad About the Boy, about a 51-year-old single mother of two who dates on dating apps and social media.
The hilarious fifty-something heroine obsesses over her weight, alcohol consumption, and calorie intake amid modern social norms and technologies. Since her last loss, things have changed.
In the book, after his horrific accident and death, Bridget is abandoned by Darcy. The portrayal of his death in the movie, according to The Mail on Sunday, cannot be true.
Written by Helen Fielding, the “sexism” in the original films “staggered” her; she said on Desert Island Discs that “you couldn’t write that now.”
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