{"id":49396,"date":"2024-04-11T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2023743"},"modified":"2024-04-11T19:58:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T17:58:48","slug":"when-will-bridget-jones-4-be-released-mad-about-the-boy-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/when-will-bridget-jones-4-be-released-mad-about-the-boy-latest-news\/","title":{"rendered":"When will Bridget Jones 4 be released? Mad About the Boy latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Ren\u00e9e Zellweger and Hugh Grant are set to reprise their beloved roles. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Molly Moss\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 11 April 2024 at 15:32 PM<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>After almost 10 years away from our screens, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/people\/renee-zellweger\/\">Ren\u00e9e Zellweger<\/a> is set to return in another instalment of the beloved Bridget Jones franchise.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In February 2024, the internet was sent into a frenzy over claims a new film was happening more than eight years after Bridget Jones\u2019s Baby was released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2016 movie followed on from Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary, which came out in 2001, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, which landed in 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And now the fourth movie, <\/span>Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, has officially been announced, w<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ith casting news and a release date confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zellweger and Hugh Grant are set to reprise their roles as the hapless TV producer and rapscallion Daniel Cleaver, respectively, but who else might appear? Read on for everything you need to know about the movie.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>When is the Bridget Jones 4 release date?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is <strong>set for US release on Valentine\u2019s Day 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Its UK release date has not been officially announced but we wouldn\u2019t expect it to be too different to the US date, if at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bridget is back! Ren\u00e9e Zellweger will star in BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY. Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson will also return, alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall who join the cast. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MadAboutTheBoy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MadAboutTheBoy<\/a> is set for release on Valentine&#8217;s Day 2025 \ud83d\udc95 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zjvFa5K5dV\">pic.twitter.com\/zjvFa5K5dV<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Working Title (@Working_Title) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Working_Title\/status\/1777735805215125564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/documentaries\/helen-fielding-bridget-jones-big-rt-interview\/\">Helen Fielding<\/a> first revealed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/bridget-jones-author-fourth-movie-newsupdate\/\"> she was working on a fourth movie<\/a> back in 2022 during an interview on the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Radio Times View From My Sofa Podcast<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2016 film Bridget Jones\u2019s Baby didn\u2019t follow her 2013 novel Mad About the Boy, and was instead based on columns Fielding wrote in 2005 and 2006 for The Independent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Asked whether <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">audiences would see Bridget back on screen in an adaptation of Mad About the Boy, Fielding<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> said: \u201cYes I\u2019m working on it and I really hope it will happen. Every film that gets made is a miracle \u2013 it\u2019s really diffi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cult to make films happen and to make them good. But I\u2019d love to see it on the screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Bridget Jones 4 cast: Who could star in Mad About the Boy?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Ren\u00e9e Zellweger<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is set to reprise her Oscar-nominated role as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bridget Jones. S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he last appeared on the big screen in Judy, for which she bagged her second Oscar in 2020 for her portrayal of Judy Garland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will also see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/people\/hugh-grant\/\"><strong>Hugh Grant<\/strong><\/a> reprise his role as bad boy Daniel Cleaver, whilst <strong>Dame Emma Thompson<\/strong> will appear once again as Dr Rawlings following her hilarious debut as the character in Bridget Jones\u2019s Baby.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ewcomers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/leo-woodall-one-day-dexter-age-instagram\/\"><strong>Leo Woodall<\/strong> (One Day)<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and <\/span><strong>Chiwetel Ejiofor<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (12 Years a Slave, Doctor Strange) have joined the cast in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as-yet-unconfirmed roles, t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hough if the film does follow the plot of the novel, they could both be playing love interests for Bridget\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear whether the likes of Patrick Dempsey, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Shirley Henderson and Celia Imrie will come back to the Bridget Jones franchise at this point, so fans will have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Is Colin Firth set to return as Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones 4?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the announcement of the film, fans may also have noticed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/people\/colin-firth\/\">Colin Firth<\/a>\u2019s name was missing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, in the book, we discover that his character Mark Darcy<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has died tragically in an accident. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, it\u2019s not clear how closely the new film will be following the novel and so fans can still hold out hope for now!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What could happen in Bridget Jones 4?<br style=\"font-weight: 400\"\/><i\/><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The latest sequel will be based on Helen Fielding\u2019s 2013 book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Bridget-Jones-About-Joness-Diary\/dp\/0099584433\/?tag=radtim0b-21&amp;ascsubtag=radiotimes-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener noreferrer\">Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy<\/a>, w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hich revolves around the 51-year-old single mother of two children as she navigates dating in a world filled with new technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, it looks like Bridget might be a slightly different kind of role model than we\u2019re used to in the new sequel.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Writer Fielding previously said on Desert Island Discs that she was \u201cstaggered\u201d by the \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sexism\u201d in the original movies, before adding: \u201cYou couldn\u2019t write that now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/bridget-jones-4-mad-about-the-boy-spoilers\/\">Read all the key spoiler information about Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Check out more of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/\" data-outlook-id=\"117d7252-4ac7-40f7-9cd6-b6dd5a577132\">Film<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/\" data-outlook-id=\"eb77db4c-3c0c-41d7-9e22-70780755500d\">TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/streaming-guide\/\" data-outlook-id=\"05dc3c9d-3387-495f-b063-923b28cdbfb2\">Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.\u00a0For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/\" 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