7.5 million admissions: This iconic heroine will soon return for a fourth film!

His tumultuous love life, dieting struggles, and impressive consumption of chardonnay and cigarettes captivated the world for more than two decades. And it seems dear Bridget Jones hasn’t had her last word yet.

Indeed, according to the Daily Mail, 23 years after the heroine of Helen Fielding’s novels first appeared on the big screen, Bridget Jones will soon return for a fourth film, which is set to begin filming in London next May.

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Renee Zellweger, 54 – who won an Oscar in 2020 for Judy – is therefore reprising her favorite role eight years after her last opus, Bridget Jones’s Child, directed by Sharon Maguire, who also signed on for the first part, in which she was shocked to discover. , that she was pregnant before eventually marrying her lover Mark (Colin Firth) and the father of her child.

The new film may be based on the 2013 novel, Bridget Jones: Mad About a Boywhich saw her raise her young children as a single mother (?) while navigating social media and dating apps.

as for Colin Firth And Hugh Grant, the timeless Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver, who once fought for the favor of the lovely Bridget, will both return to their roles – somewhat after Daniel Cleaver was presumed dead at the start of the last film. Until it was published in a newspaper article that he had been found alive.

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Before this announcement, a question to the author about the fourth part Helen Fielding told the Radio Times about his novel Mad about the boy :”Every film made is a miracle. I think it’s very difficult to make movies and direct them and make them good and we want them to be really good. But I really hope so. I would love to see him on screen.“

The first opus, Bridget Jones’s Diary, released in 2001, grossed nearly $282 million at the worldwide box office, more than ten times its cost. The sequels were also a great commercial success.

You can watch the entire saga on VOD.