BRIDGE IS BACK
Bridget Jones 4 with Renée Zellweger confirmed as HUGE original star and White Lotus actor sign up to new movie
Fans will be gutted to hear one of the main characters is not returning
NOUGHTIES movie fans can finally dig out their giant pants as the Bridget Jones film franchise IS returning, it has been confirmed.
Filming for the fourth instalment begins next week with Renée Zellweger set to reprise the role of hapless lead character Bridget.
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Hugh Grant will also be making a comeback as hunky antagonist Daniel Cleaver, while Emma Thompson - who appeared in the 2016 flick Bridget Jones’s Baby - will also be returning.
There will be some new faces among the cast too, with actor and star of The Lion King Chiwetel Ejiofor joining in with Bridget's next big screen capers.
White Lotus star Leo Woodall, who is also known for his leading role in Netflix's hit series One Day, has also signed up for the movie.
Sadly, it appears Colin Firth will not be appearing in Bridget Jones 4 as Bridget's husband Mark Darcy, however.
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states: "Jones is now navigating life, work, family and love as a 51-year-old single mother and widow, to boot (I know, right?!). And of course, there’s the hot sex with a 30-year old man."
The blockbuster film last featured on the big screen six years ago when Bridget Jones’ Baby saw her pregnant but trying to figure out who the father was.
The new movie, co-penned by creator Helen Fielding, will be focused on the story of Bridget Jones as a mother.
It is based on Ms Fielding's 2013 novel, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, which saw the newly single mum try and balance raising a young boy while also navigating dating apps.
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At the end of the last film, Bridget Jones decided to marry Mark Darcy, the lawyer she'd had an on-off romance with over the past three films.
But in the book the fourth movie is based on, Bridget has been left as a widow after Mark was blown up by a landmine while doing negotiations in Sudan.
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A source previously said: “There have been few more successful or more popular rom-coms than Bridget Jones over the last couple of decades, but everyone thought this one was done for good.
“However the producers always knew their was a huge market for another sequel when the right story was available, and this feels like the right time to tell it.
“It will be seven or eight years since the last movie by the time this one hits the big screen, and fans will be desperate to find out what happened. It’s a British classic.”
The hotly-anticipated rom-com will be released globally on Valentine's Day (February 14) next year, according to reports.
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