‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’ is set to bring back Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Emma Thompson. The fourth film in the iconic franchise is based on Helen Fielding’s book ‘Bridget Jones’. The author in her 2022 interview with Radio Times expressed her willingness to add ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy‘ to the movie legacy. Well, it seems Michael Morris is all set to direct the film.
The past three movies were chart-topping including 2001’s ‘Bridget Jones Diary’, 2004’s ‘Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason’ and 2016’s ‘Bridget Jones Baby’. The films earned over $760 million worldwide. Furthermore, for her role in the 2001 movie ‘Bridget Jones Diary’, Zellweger secured her first Academy Award nominations.
Hugh Grant, who skipped the third installment in the franchise will reappear alongside Zellweger. Emma Thompson will also reprise the role of Dr. Rawlings.
‘Mad About The Boy’ is being produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Jo Wallett and will be released on Valentine’s Day 2025 in cinemas worldwide and exclusively on Peacock in the US.
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Storyline Of ‘Bridget Jones: ‘Mad About The Boy‘
‘Bridget Jones: ‘Mad About The Boys’ will follow the life of Bridget Jones as a 51-year-old single mother and a widow. She navigates her life with the challenges of modern dating and social media.
In the third part of the movie, Jones marries Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and they raise their son Billy together. But tragically, Darcy is killed in a landmine in Sudan in the book’s third part. Jones is now left alone with her two children as they also have a second child named, Mabel.
The upcoming movie is most likely to revolve around Hugh Grant’s character Daniel Cleaver’s re-entry into Jones’ life. Cleaver is the main antagonist throughout the book series. According to ‘Mad About The Boy’ publisher, the book is about Bridget navigating “head lice epidemics, school-picnic humiliations, and cross-generational sex”. Moreover, “she learns that life isn’t over when you start needing reading glasses—and why one should never, ever text while drunk.” So, we can expect some embarrassing and witty moments, wrapped in an endearing story.
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