Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy–Franchise Starring Oscar Winner Renée (“Judi”) Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson Returns with 4th Installment

After months of quiet chess pieces moves, Universal and Working Title have finally put in place the talent for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the fourth installment of the British-based romantic film comedy series.

Renée Zellweger is set to return as the lovable but flailing at life Jones as is Hugh Grant as rapscallion Daniel Cleaver.

The first movie, Bridget Jones’s Diary, inn 2001. was hugely popular at the global box office, earning $282 million against of budget of $25 million.

Emma Thompson, who appeared in the 2016 entry, Bridget Jones’s Baby, is back as well while newcomers include Chiwetel Ejiofor and up-and-comer Leo Woodall, best known for his work in White Lotus season 2.

The Jones have had love triangles, find romance and even have a baby, but in the novel Mad About a Boy, the woman found new levels of embarrassment as tweets and texts were added to her diary as her forms of expression.

Hot Sex between Bridgett Jones, 51, and Young Man, 30

Jones is now navigating life, work, family and love as a 51-year-old single mother and widow. And of course, there’s the hot sex with a 30-year old man.

Universal will release the rom-com on Peacock on Valentine’s Day 2025 while internationally it will be released in theaters.

Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Jo Wallett are producing through Working Title Films, while the company’s Amelia Granger and Sarah-Jane Wright executive produce. Fielding will also executive produce the project. Miramax is co-financing the feature.

Zellweger first played Jones in the 2001 adaptation, which not only proved to be a massive hit, it earned the actress a Oscar nomination for best actress. Grant and Colin Firth also starred in the movie, with the trio returning for the 2004 sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Grant sat out 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby, though Zellweger and Firth returned.

The trio of movies have made more than $760 million at the worldwide box office.

Zellweger’s last big-screen outting was Judy, the 2019 biopic of actress Judy Gardland and for which she won her second Academy Award.

Oscar winner Thompson last appeared in Netflix’s Matilda: The Musical.

Oscar nominee Ejiofor recently starred in the Showtime series The Man Who Fell to Earth and at the Sundance Film Festival in January, he unveiled his second feature as a director, the drama Rob Peace.

In White Lotus, Woodall played Jack, a British boy who helps plan the murder of another character in the acclaimed show’s Italy-set second season. He currently starts in Netflix’s romantic drama One Day and was recently cast in cast in James Vanderbilt’s legal drama Nuremberg, alongside Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon. He is repped by Gersh, Hamilton Hodell, Anonymous Content and Goodman, Genow.