$750 million: Will this iconic romantic comedy return in 20 years for a 4th film?

Bridget Jones tonight on W9 with Bridget Jones’s Baby at 9pm and Bridget Jones: Age of Reason in the second half of the evening. Do you miss Helen Fielding’s hero? We discuss a possible fourth installment in the adventures of a London spinster played by Renée Zellweger.

Released in theaters in 2016, Bridget Jones’s Child is the first film in the trilogy not adapted from a novel.Helen Fielding (But he co-wrote the screenplay with Emma Thompson and Dan Mazer). The feature film grossed $212 million at the international box office (compared to 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary’s $281 million and $265 million age of reason Released in 2004.

In this third part, Bridget has separated from Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and is still single at the age of 40. More focused on her career and friends than her love life, the heroine is coping well until she meets Jack (Patrick Dempsey) and finds Mark… then finds out she’s pregnant. But from whom?

If this opus is not adapted from Helen Fielding’s book, it still fits perfectly into the saga’s time frame, as the third novel titled Bridget Jones: Crazy about him (published in 2013), the 53-year-old heroine is a widow and mother of 2 children. Having become a fan of social networks, she tries to juggle between work, life as a mother and life as a woman.

Is Bridget Jones 4 Possible?

The fourth film, this time adapted from the book, so the idea and Renee Zellweger Also ready for it. The American actress confirmed in April 2022 her desire to find the character that made her famous. He thus confided in Jess Cagle on the show SiriusXM :”I would love to find him. It’s funny because he’s so funny. I love playing it. I laugh every day on the sets of these films. I see no reason to refuse if the opportunity arises.”

And that opportunity is set to emerge soon after last December when novelist and screenwriter Helen Fielding announced Radio TimesHe is working on the script of the fourth film.

” I am working on it and I hope it will happen. Every film made is a miracle – it’s really hard to make films and do them well. But I would love to see him on screen.”.

To be continued !