Her rollercoaster love life, her weight struggles, and her spectacular consumption of chardonnay and cigarettes have gripped the world for greater than 20 years.
Now The Mail on Sunday can reveal one-time singleton Bridget Jones is again.
A fourth film will start filming in London in Might, 23 years after Helen Fielding’s heroine first hit the silver display screen, with pre-production already effectively underneath manner.
Renee Zellweger will return within the lead position and is already on the lookout for a house to dwell in whereas she’s in Britain, in keeping with sources.
The brand new movie comes eight years after the final instalment, Bridget Jones’s Child and is to be based mostly on Ms Fielding’s 2013 novel, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, which noticed her elevating younger youngsters as a single mum whereas navigating social media and courting apps.
A fourth film will start filming in London in Might, 23 years after Helen Fielding’s heroine first hit the silver display screen. Pictured, Renee Zellwegger as Bridget Jones
Ms Zellweger, 54, already has a crew searching for lodging for her and her boyfriend, TV presenter Ant Anstead, 44 (pictured)
Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, who performed love rivals Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver, are each anticipated to return of their roles in some capability.
A film supply mentioned: ‘Bridget is again and is about to take over London. Filming is being mapped out already and all the pre- manufacturing is in place.
‘There was some uncertainty about whether or not it will get off the bottom, however the film is coming.
‘Renee is happy about bringing Bridget again. She adores the character a lot. Bridget Jones fever is anticipated to brush throughout London this spring.’
Ms Zellweger, 54, already has a crew searching for lodging for her and her boyfriend, TV presenter Ant Anstead, 44, whereas she is engaged on the undertaking.
On earlier shoots she employed a bachelorette pad in Kensington, West London, the place she would go unnoticed as she shopped regionally. However this time she and Anstead, who hails from Plymouth, are understood to be on the lookout for one thing greater.
The latest movie, launched in 2016, noticed Bridget shocked when she came upon she was pregnant. It ended together with her marrying Mark, the high-flying lawyer who she’d had on and off emotions for throughout the three films. It was additionally revealed that he was the daddy to her child.
Colin Firth (pictured) and Hugh Grant , who performed love rivals Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver, are each anticipated to return of their roles in some capability
Grant did not seem in that film as Cleaver was presumed lifeless initially. On the finish, although, there was a newspaper report that mentioned he had been discovered alive.
A ebook based mostly on that story was printed after the movie, and after the Mad About The Boy novel, though it was set earlier. And in Mad About The Boy, Mark Darcy is lifeless, leaving Jones as a widow, though it isn’t recognized if the film might be trustworthy to that.
When requested a few fourth film instalment, Fielding beforehand instructed Radio Occasions: ‘Each movie that will get made is a miracle. I feel it is actually tough to make movies and to make them occur and to make them good and we wish it to be actually good. However I actually hope so. I might like to see it on the display screen.’
There have been rumours final yr the film had been axed as a result of US actors’ strikes, however sources mentioned these claims have been ‘nonsense’.
The primary movie, Bridget Jones’s Diary, got here out in 2001 and grossed £222 million on the field workplace – greater than ten occasions what it price to make. Ms Zellweger’s final movie was the 2019 biopic of Judy Garland.
