The Bridget Jones franchise is set to return for a fourth instalment, titled “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy”. Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson will reprise their roles, with the film set to be released in the US on Valentine’s Day 2025. The storyline will follow the fourth novel in the series, which sees Bridget as a widowed mother-of-two in her 50s. In the new film, it is unclear how closely the plot will follow the book; however, it is confirmed that author Helen Fielding has written the script.
The beloved, hapless Bridget, previously played by the two-time Oscar winner Zellweger, will feature along with Grant’s character, dashing rapscallion Daniel Cleaver. Thompson, too, will also make a return as Bridget’s despairing obstetrician. With Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall joining the cast, the latter is rumoured to play Bridget’s younger love interest as she gets back into the dating scene.
Fielding stated she made the decision to kill off Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth, in the series because she didn’t want Bridget to become “a smug married”, as set out in her earlier musings. The books had always been the source of the film adaptations and, judging by the titles of the films themselves, we can extrapolate that the new instalment will be derived from the fourth book. As such, the new film will be eagerly anticipated among Bridget Jones fans, although no UK release date has yet been announced.
In an interview with the BBC, Fielding said that she wrote the fourth book in secret in order to be free of expectations and pressure, “so that I could write it like the first one”. Whatever twists and turns it takes, punters will hope that it has the same comic timing, laughter and heartbreak, just like the diaries, that made the original films so memorable
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