Bridget Jones 4, officially titled Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, is officially happening, with casting news and a release date confirmed.
Renée Zellweger will be back as the slightly hapless TV producer, as will Hugh Grant — whose character Daniel Cleaver was confirmed to be alive at the end of the third film — and Emma Thompson, who plays a stern doctor who helped Bridget during her pregnancy.
Love Actually and Doctor Strange's Chiwetel Eijofor and The White Lotus and One Day's Leo Woodall have been confirmed as new cast members, but where's Colin Firth's Mark Darcy?
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Beyond this casting news, it has been announced that the film will be released on Valentine's Day 2025 via a post on X/Twitter.
The third film, Bridget Jones' Baby, saw Bridget marry on/off lover Mark, who turned out to be the father of her child instead of Patrick Dempsey's Jack Qwant, who she slept with just days before reuniting with Mark.
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Jack ended the film on very good terms with Bridget and Mark, despite all the drama she put him through. Dempsey hasn't been confirmed at this time for the fourth film either, but his absence from this initial announcement raises less questions than Firth's.
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Although not officially confirmed yet, it's likely that this film is at least loosely adapting Helen Fielding's 2013 Bridget Jones novel that is also subtitled Mad About the Boy. In that book, we learn that Mark has actually been dead for five years, leaving Bridget to raise their two children as a single mum.
Critical response to the book was very mixed at the time, and 2016's Bridget Jones' Baby decided to go in its own direction, so it remains to be seen how the new movie blends the novel with creative license in film.
In the Mad About the Boy novel, Bridget starts a relationship with a man 20 years her junior, which could potentially be the role that Woodall is playing.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will be released on February 14, 2025.
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