Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Renee Zellweger (Jerry Maguire, Judy) is returning to a franchise role in the upcoming sequel, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, which she began in the 2001 film Bridget Jones’s Diary. She went on to reprise the starring role in the 2004 sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. After a long break, she came back for Bridget Jones’s Baby in 2016, and now we will see the story expand with this upcoming title.
Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson are confirmed to return alongside franchise newcomers Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, Love, Actually) and Leo Woodall (The White Lotus, One Day). The film will be directed by Michael Morris (To Leslie, Better Call Saul).
For her role in the original 2001 film, Zellweger earned her first Academy Award nomination. Mad About the Boy marks Grant’s return to the film series after his character, Daniel Cleaver, was presumed dead (and later revealed to be alive) in Bridget Jones’s Baby.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will debut in cinemas internationally and on Peacock in the U.S. on Valentine’s Day 2025.
via: Variety
