Us to news that Bridget Jones 4 is happening: I like you, very much, just as you are. Here's everything you need to know about the fourth film in the mega successful franchise, which follows Renée Zellweger's Bridge, as she navigating the highs and lows of life in London.
Watch the first trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
On 12th November 2024, Universal revealed the first trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy. Watch it above!
What is Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy's release date?
Set your calendars: the fourth Bridget Jones film will be released in the UK and US on Valentine's Day 2025, aka 14th February.
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Hang on, when was Bridget Jones 4 announced?
In February 2024, the rumour mill went into overdrive amid claims a new movie was happening, eight years after Bridget Jones's Baby dropped. The 2016 film followed on from Bridget Jones's Diary, which came out in 2001, and Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, which came out in 2004.
The Daily Mail reported production was "well under way", and that filming would start three months later. "Bridget is back and is about to take over London," their source said. "Filming is being mapped out already and all of the pre-production is in place.
"There was some uncertainty about whether it would get off the ground, but the movie is coming. Renée is excited about bringing Bridget back. She adores the character so much. Bridget Jones fever is expected to sweep across London this spring."
The film will be called Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.
Who's in the Bridget Jones 4 cast?
Thank GOODNESS we can expect many of the original cast to be back on screens:
- Renée Zellwegger as Bridget Jones
- Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver
- Emma Thompson as Dr Rawlings, who joined the cast in the third film
- Jim Broadbent
- Shirley Henderson
- Celia Imrie
- James Callis
- Gemma Jones
- Sally Phillips
- Joanna Scanlan
Colin Firth will also reprise the role of Mark Darcy, but only in flash backs.
Speaking about the new script, Hugh Grant teased it was "very good" during an interview in April 2024. "It's partly based on Helen Fielding's experiences of bringing up two children by herself after her husband died," he told People. "And so Bridget is bringing up two kids and wondering whether she should ever go back to dating. It's a very good script."
Excitingly, the cast will also have new brilliant actors joining for Bridget Jones 4, including:
- Leo Woodall from One Day and The White Lotus, who will play Bridget's younger love interest.
- Chiwetel Ejiofor from The Martian and 12 Years A Slave, as Bridget's children's teacher
- Nico Parker
What will happen in Bridget Jones 4?
In the third film, it's revealed that one of Bridget's previous love interests, Daniel Cleaver (played by Hugh Grant) was presumed dead after a plane crash. However, as the film develops, a newspaper report reveals he has actually been found alive.
In Helen Fielding's 2013 novel, Mad About The Boy, we join Bridget as a "single mother" - which is bad news for anyone that wanted things to work out with Mark Darcy. Instead, she's experimenting with dating much younger men (er, hello Leo Woodall) and dating apps for the first time.
As the official synopsis explains:
"What do you do when a girlfriend's 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend's 30th? Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating? Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Does the Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood?
Is sleeping with someone after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting married after 2 meetings and 6 months of letter writing in Jane Austen's day?
Pondering these, and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of single-motherhood, tweeting, texting and rediscovering her sexuality in what SOME people rudely and outdatedly call 'middle age'."
