Bridget Jones said, “Everyone knows diaries are just full of crap.” But the ones that record her inner thoughts also make great movies. It’s so great that they’re about to start making a fourth one. Toni Collette, Hugh Grant, and Emma Thompson will all play the same parts in the new movie Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
It will come out on Valentine’s Day 2025 in the US, but there is no date set for the UK yet. The name of the movie comes from the current Bridget Jones book, which came out in 2013. Readers pick up with Bridget in her 50s, having lost her husband Mark Darcy (played by Colin Firth in the earlier movies) and having two children.
The company that is making the movie hasn’t said how closely it will follow the plot of the book with the same name, but author Helen Fielding has written the script. Also, Zellweger, who has won two Oscars, will play the popular, helpless Bridget Jones again, and Grant, who didn’t appear in the third movie, will return as the dashing thief Daniel Cleaver.
Thompson is also going to be back. In Bridget Jones’s Baby, she played Bridget’s sad doctor for the first time. On the list of new actors are Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Leo Woodall (One Day), who is said to play Bridget’s younger love interest as she starts dating again.
In the past, British author Helen Fielding said she decided to leave Mark Darcy out of the series because she didn’t want Bridget to get married and become “a smug married,” which Jones had previously thought was a terrible thing that could happen. Fielding told BBC News that she wrote Mad about the Boy in secret “so that I could write it like the first one” and without any expectations or pressure. Bridget Jones’s new book was “written secretly.”