Bridget Jones 4: Every little thing We Know So Far

When British Vogue dropped in on Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding for a glass of white Burgundy again in 1998, the creator wasn’t fairly certain what would turn out to be of the vaguely autobiographical character she’d created. “I don’t know what is going to occur to her,” she stated, cozied up within the candlelit lounge of her Notting Hill flat. “I hope I’ll know when the time is correct to kill her off. Although it’s additionally attainable I may find yourself writing a few 60-year-old Bridget. She could possibly be like Bertie Wooster and go on and on perpetually.”

And—would you take a look at that—Bridge, like each different aughts blonde with questionable feminist rules, is again. (Extremely, when tasked with translating her first e-book right into a script for director Sharon Maguire, Fielding, then a Each day Telegraph columnist, “went out and purchased a duplicate of Tips on how to Write a Screenplay, very Bridget-like habits”; fortunately, she appears to have discovered her toes within the writers’ room 25-odd years later.) Mad In regards to the Boy, the fourth installment of the Pleasure & Prejudice-inspired Ms. Jones franchise, is formally slated for a Valentine’s Day launch (completely of course), with manufacturing resulting from start in London this summer season.

The movie’s plot comes courtesy of Fielding’s 2013 novel of the identical identify, set 4 years after Bridget Jones’s Child (the much less stated about which, the higher). Mark the bore is now useless, having been “killed by a landmine in Sudan” (…), leaving Bridget a single, widowed mom elevating two youngsters in her 50s, which doesn’t sound like it will necessitate a lot vodka consumption in any respect. (Keep in mind: she’s passionately dedicated to speaking with youngsters.)

If Colin Firth gained’t be returning for Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy, Hugh Grant will, reprising his position because the “alcoholic, workaholic, sexaholic, commitment-phobic, megalomaniac, emotional fuckwit” with superb hair that’s Daniel Cleaver. I can solely assume which means that additional minibreaks at Stoke Park are in Bridget and Daniel’s future. Much more intriguingly, each Chiwetel Ejiofor (whom Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph was completely on the cash about) and Leo Woodall have joined the forged—presumably as Mr. Wallaker, the weirdly match trainer at Bridget’s youngsters’s faculty who helps her when she will get caught up a tree (as one does), and Roxster, the 30-something, exit-out-of-grief-sex fling she meets on Twitter (“instantly really feel like display goddess in method of Ambika Mod”). “Bridget Jones, already a legend”—and now fodder for a thousand cougar-themed assume items, too.