Renée Zellweger returns for last ‘Bridget Jones’ movie

Renée Zellweger returns for last ‘Bridget Jones’ movie | Daily Tribune

Follow Bridget Jones in another comedic and heartfelt chapter to her story, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Renée Zellweger reprises her role as romantic-comedy icon Bridget Jones, who tries to rekindle the spark in her life after the death of her husband Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth. Now a single mother to two children, her loved ones encourage her into pursuing a new path into life and love, often with hilarious results.

The film also stars Hugh Grant, Emma Thompsion, Leo Woodall, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Isla Fisher. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is the perfect Valentine’s Day movie as it opens in Philippine theaters on 12 February.

Bridget Jones first blasted onto bookshelves in Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon Bridget Jones’s Diary, which became a global bestseller and a blockbuster film. As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added “Singletons,” “Smug-Marrieds” and “f—-wittage” into the global lexicon. 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.

But in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in Sudan. She’s now a single mother to nine-year-old Billy and four-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Grant).

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Morris from a screenplay by BAFTA nominee Helen Fielding, based on her novel, with contributions from Emmy winner Abi Morgan and Oscar nominee Dan Mazer.

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 The film is executive produced by Fielding, Zellweger, Amelia Granger and Sarah-Jane Wright. Working Title has produced all the Bridget Jones films.