The one-sheet poster for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy has been released today by Universal as the two-time Academy Award® winner Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established her as a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages.
Bridget Jones, a woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre is back again just looking for love in all the wrong places.
Bridget Jones’s Diary became a global bestseller and a blockbuster film, the film revolves around Bridget as a single career woman living in London looking for love. Bridget’s ability to triumph despite adversity led her to finally marry top lawyer Mark Darcy and to become the mother of their baby boy. Happiness at last.
Sadly Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) will not be returning for this film which came as quite a disappointment for actress Renée Zellweger as quoted in numerous articles.
So what did the filmmakers decide to do with his character?
Kill him off!
Yes, the filmmakers decided that instead of leaving him alone for a potential return one day and a happy-ever-after for Bridget they decided to kill him off on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan leaving poor Bridget as a widowed single mum with a 9-year-old (Billy) and a 4-year-old (Mabel).
But all is not lost as she has help from her loyal friends and even her former love, Daniel Cleaver (played by Hugh Grant).
Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Oscar® winner Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (White Lotus’s Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Oscar® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor).
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Morris (To Leslie, Better Call Saul), from a screenplay by BAFTA nominee Helen Fielding, based on her novel, with contributions from Emmy winner Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Eric) and Oscar® nominee Dan Mazer (I Give it A Year, Bridget Jones’s Baby).
The film is produced for Working Title by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, whose films, including The Danish Girl, Darkest Hour, Fargo, Les Misérables and The Theory of Everything, among others, have earned 14 Academy Awards® and six Best Picture nominations. The film is also produced by Jo Wallett (Wicked Little Letters, Catherine Called Birdy). The film is executive produced by Amelia Granger and Sarah-Jane Wright for Working Title, Renée Zellweger and by Helen Fielding. Working Title has produced all the Bridget Jones films.
A Universal Pictures/Working Title film, with co-financing from Studiocanal and Miramax, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will be released in theaters internationally by Universal Pictures and will stream exclusively on Peacock in the U.S. The three previous Bridget Jones films—Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)—have earned more than $800 million worldwide.
Bridget Jones: Mad About a Boy will be released on Valentine’s Day (February 14th) 2025.
