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Bridget Jones is back: Zellweger will star in fourth film – but a key love interest won’t be back

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Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant are returning for the fourth Bridget Jones film.

two time oscar award winner Zellweger Back to Bridget Jones: Mad About Boys, and Grant Reprising his role as villain Daniel Cleaver.

Emma Thompson, who played Bridget’s desperate obstetrician in the third film, also returns, joined by “12 Years a Slave” star Chiwetel Ejiofor and “One Day” actor Leo Woodall The cast.

Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth, will not be back this time around.

Colin Firth and Renee Zellweger in
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Colin Firth, who plays Mark Darcy, will not appear in the new film.Image: Alamy

British author Helen Fielding has previously said she decided to write about Bridget’s romance in the third book because she didn’t want Bridget to become a “smug married person.”

In Bridget Jones: Crazy for Boys, Bridget is a widow in her 50s with two children after Mark’s death several years ago. However, details of the movie’s plot and whether it will follow the original work have not yet been revealed.

The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on Valentine’s Day 2025. Its UK release date has yet to be announced.

Adapted from the 1996 book Bridget Jones’s Diary, the critically acclaimed 2001 film stars American star Zellweger as a 30-something British bachelor who drinks chardonnay. Li wine, obsessed with her weight and looking for a man.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall.Photo: Reuters/AP
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(LR) Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall will join the cast.Photo: Reuters/AP

British actors Firth and Grant play two men fighting for her attention.

A sequel, “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” released in 2004, took the story to Thailand, while the third, “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” was released in 2016 and pitted Firth’s Darcy against the U.S. Billionaire love guru Jack Qwant competes. Patrick Dempsey, who caught Bridget’s attention.

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Zellweger, who was last seen on the big screen in “Judy,” won her second Oscar in 2020 for her portrayal of famed singer and actress Judy Garland.

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