Renée Zellweger to Reprise “Bridget Jones” Role for New Sequel Costarring Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall are also joining the cast for the upcoming 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,' in theaters and on Peacock Feb. 14, 2025

Bridget Jones — and her diary — are back!

On April 9, Universal Pictures shared that Renée Zellweger will star in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the fourth movie in the Bridget Jones series that originally earned the actress, 54, her first Academy Award nomination, for 2001's Bridget Jones's Diary.

Hugh Grant is expected to reprise his role from the series as Daniel Cleaver, while Emma Thompson, who cowrote and appeared in 2016's Bridget Jones's Baby, will also return for the series' fourth film.

Grant, 63, has appeared in all three of the past Bridget Jones movies as Daniel; he plays Bridget's on-again, off-again love interest, initially depicted as her boss.

Mad About the Boy will mark the fourth film in the Bridget Jones series and is adapted from English author Helen Fielding's novel of the same name. Michael Morris is directing the new entry, while Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Leo Woodall (The White Lotus) are joining the series' cast.

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Bridget Jones's Diary, based on Fielding's novel and a column she wrote for the U.K. outlet The Independent in the 1990s, was a hit at the box office and made $334.2 million worldwide upon its release in 2001.

The film follows Zellweger's character Bridget, a publishing company employee in London, as she begins writing a diary, falls for her boss (Grant) and grows caught in a love triangle between herself and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). 

2004's sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason follows her continuing adventures and relationship struggles with Mark, whom she gets together with in the first movie's climax and becomes engaged to at the end of the sequel.

2016's Bridget Jones's Baby catches Bridget as she discovers she is pregnant and resolves to determine whether the baby's father is Mark or Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey).

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Fielding, 66, previously told Radio Times in 2022 that she was adapting Mad About the Boy — her novel that was published in the U.S. in 2014 — for the big screen.

"Yes, I’m working on it and I really hope it will happen," she said at the time. "Every film that gets made is a miracle — it’s really difficult to make films happen and to make them good."

Added the author, "But I’d love to see it on the screen."

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is expected to release in theaters and on Peacock Feb. 14, 2025.

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