New ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ to star Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant

A brand new “Bridget Jones’s Diary” film is formally a go, and unique stars Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant can be alongside for the trip.

Common Footage and British movie studio Working Title Movies will crew for the fourth installment of the beloved comedy sequence, based mostly on writer Helen Fielding’s books, a number of retailers reported Tuesday. Two-time Oscar winner Zellweger will reprise the ever-clumsy title protagonist, and Grant will return to the sequence as Bridget’s former boss and lover, Daniel Cleaver.

With the fourth film, the “Bridget Jones’s Diary” sequence will even welcome Chiwetel Ejiofor and “The White Lotus” actor Leo Woodall. Emma Thompson additionally returns to the comedy movie sequence, almost eight years since she appeared within the 2016 chapter, “Bridget Jones’s Child.”

“To Leslie” director Michael Morris will reportedly direct, and Fielding will return to put in writing the script.

”Bridget Jones’s Diary” leaped from web page to display in 2001. Zellweger starred as a hopelessly single lady in her 30s torn between Grant’s Daniel Cleaver and his ex-best buddy Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), a human rights barrister.

The love triangle persists in 2004’s “Bridget Jones: The Fringe of Purpose,” which follows the ups and downs of Bridget’s new romance with Mark, which is additional examined when Daniel reenters her life.

Within the third and most up-to-date movie, Zellweger’s Bridget entertains a brand new romance with American Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey), and winds up in yet one more love triangle — this time with Jack and Mark, the potential fathers of her child. As devoted “Bridget Jones’s Diary” followers could keep in mind, the tip of the third movie leaves room for one other sequel, and the return of Grant’s Daniel, who presumably died in a airplane crash.

The subsequent movie can be based mostly on Fielding’s 2013 novel “Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy” and can premiere on Peacock on Valentine’s Day 2025.