How does an A CinemaScore and 4 1/2 star PostTrak movie with a major star and a dog underdeliver at the box office?
27.02.2024 - 01:29 / glamour.com
) Bridget Jones hit the silver screen, fans have been clamoring to see the further adventures of the plucky heroine, played by .Following the success of 2001’s Bridget Jones’ Diary (which, fun fact, is based on Pride & Prejudice), Zellweger starred in two sequels, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and Bridget Jones’ Baby (2016).Now, a fourth movie is reportedly in the works.
Here’s what we’ve heard about the flick.“Filming is being mapped out already and all of the pre-production is in place…There was some uncertainty about whether it would get off the ground, but the movie is coming,” a source told the in February 2024, citing May as the start of shooting in London.According to the Daily Mail article, it’ll take inspiration from one of author Helen Fielding’s later Bridget Jones novels, which follows our heroine navigating social media and dating apps as a single mom following the death of her longtime love Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).So far, only is reportedly confirmed.
Both Firth and Hugh Grant battled for Jones’ affections in the first two films, though Grant’s character was written off (presumed dead, later found alive, off-screen) and replaced by another man, played by Patrick Dempsey, in the third.
So all avenues are open.It’s actually pretty notable that Zellweger has signed on.
Not that anyone else could play the titular character, but the two-time Oscar winner is super-choosy about her projects.
That said, she’s always been In 2020, she told , when asked whether there would be another installment of the hit franchise, “It would be fun, yeah.
I know people are coy.
I’m not.
I promise I’m not.
I just don’t know."“I mean, that’s a Helen [Fielding, the author] question, but I hope she would want to…I’m always
How does an A CinemaScore and 4 1/2 star PostTrak movie with a major star and a dog underdeliver at the box office?
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