Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy—the fourth installment of the British-based romantic film comedy series—is heading to the big screens, and, as The Hollywood Reporter put it, “after months of quiet chess pieces moves,” the talent is put together for the film.
What is a Bridget Jones film without Bridget Jones herself? Yes, the star of the show, Renee Zellweger, is set to return, alongside Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver. The star-studded cast will also include Emma Thompson (who appeared in 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby), as well as franchise newcomers Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall, who stole hearts in White Lotus’ second season and One Day. Helen Fielding—who wrote the bestselling novels about the character—wrote the script for the forthcoming film.
“Readers and audiences have seen Jones have love triangles, find romance, and even have a baby, but in the novel Mad About a Boy, the woman found new levels of embarrassment as tweets and texts were added to her diary as her forms of expression,” The Hollywood Reporter writes. “Jones is now navigating life, work, family, and love as a 51-year-old single mother and widow, to boot. And, of course, there’s the hot sex with a 30-year-old man.”
Zellweger first starred as Jones in the 2001 original; it was not only a massive hit, but earned her an Oscar nomination. Its sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, was released in 2004, followed by Bridget Jones’s Baby in 2016. The trio of movies have grossed more than $760 million at the worldwide box office.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is due on Peacock on Valentine’s Day 2025; it will also be shown in theaters.
