Summary
- Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy has officially wrapped up filming, with Working Title confirming the fourquel is set for a Valentine’s Day 2025 release.
- Renée Zellweger is returning to reprise her iconic role alongside familiar faces Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant.
- The new installment will adapt Helen Fielding’s 2013 book, exploring Bridget navigating the modern dating scene after her husband’s death.
The highly anticipated Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy gets an exciting filming and release window update. Based on Helen Fielding’s award-winning book of the same name, the Bridget Jones film series began with Sharon Maguire’s 2001 rom-com adaptation that garnered critical and commercial success and effectively launched the franchise. Two equally successful installments were released in 2004 and in 2016 respectively, and, after a lengthy period of conjecture regarding a new installment, it was confirmed in April 2024 that Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy was properly in the works.
Now, a few months after the sequel was confirmed, the production company in charge of the forthcoming movie, Working Title, recently took to their official Twitter account to offer an exciting Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy update.
The post, as shown above, offers a photo from the set of the next installment, confirming filming has wrapped on Mad About The Boy. In addition to the shooting update, the studio confirmed the movie is still on track for a Valentine’s Day 2025 release.
What To Expect From Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy?
Talks about a fourth installment in the Bridget Jones film series initially began in late 2022, but it wasn’t until April 2024 that it was officially confirmed that Mad About The Boy was in production. Following the official confirmation of the movie, it was also confirmed that Renée Zellweger, the veteran actor who earned an Academy Award nomination for playing the eponymous role in the first installment, will be returning to once again reprise her role.
Zellweger has featured in every installment of the Bridget Jones film series since 2001, so her involvement in this forthcoming movie must come as great news to fans of this classic rom-com franchise. Alongside Zellweger, Emma Thompson will be returning to reprise her role as Dr. Rawlings from the most recent installment, Bridget Jones’s Baby, while Hugh Grant, who featured in the first movie but was noticeably absent in the 2016 threequel, will be returning to reprise his role as Daniel Cleaver.
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Aside from the familiar faces, a host of new names, including Isla Fisher, Nico Parker, Josette Simon, and Leila Farzad, are also set to appear in roles that are yet to be disclosed. As regards the storyline for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, the movie is set to adapt Helen Fielding’s 2013 book of the same name and the novel finds Jones grappling with the death of her husband Mark Darcy while also trying to acquaint herself with the dating scene of the 21st century.
Source: Working Title / Twitter
