- Fourth film in the Bridget Jones series set to start shooting this summer
- Film set to follow plot of 2013 novel, which sees Bridget as a widow with two small children
- Film set to be released in February 2025
She’s been away from our screens for eight years.
But now Bridget Jones is back – along with a stellar supporting cast.
Reprising her role as the loveable London TV producer is Renée Zellweger, who first starred as the character in 2001 and earned an Oscar for her part.
After sitting the third installment in the franchise out, Hugh Grant will be back as the dashing and dastardly Daniel Cleaver – despite his character seemingly being killed off in Bridget Jones’s Baby, when we watched a funeral scene featuring a packed church of his ex-girlfriends.
And just when we thought things couldn’t get better, the rest of the star-studded line-up includes Emma Thompson – Bridget’s doctor in the third film – Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall.
Sadly, Colin Firth will be skipping the movie for the first time since he played the charming (yet grumpy) human rights lawyer Mark Darcy in the first film, Bridget Jones’s Diary.
The fourth movie will follow the plot of author Helen Fielding’s 2013 novel, Mad About the Boy. It is set four years after the previous installment, and sees Bridget a widow with two small children, after Mark was killed by a landmine in Sudan. In the book, Grant’s character Cleaver is godfather to her children, Billy and Mabel
White Lotus and One Day star Woodall is thought to have been cast as the hot 30-year-old who Bridget starts sleeping with as she navigates the dating world again following her bereavement.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will shoot in London this summer ahead of a release next February, to coincide with Valentine’s Day. So far, the franchise has taken $760m at the box office.
