Renee Zellweger is Back in ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ Trailer
by Alex Billington
November 12, 2024
Source: YouTube
“If you don’t shag him, I will.” Universal Pictures and Peacock have revealed the official trailer for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, the next romcom sequel from this long-running franchise starring Renée Zellweger. Bridget Jones first blasted onto bookshelves in Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon Bridget Jones’s Diary, which became a global bestseller & blockbuster film in 2001. 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. Then came the sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) followed by Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016). In this next one, Mad About the Boy, Jones gets on Tinder and meets a dashing young man who woos her. The full ensemble cast has plenty of old & new faces: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Isla Fisher, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, James Callis, Shirley Henderson, Sally Phillips, along with Leo Woodall as the new boy. Looks as charming & funny & cheesy as the last two sequels. Will it be any better?
Official trailer (+ poster) for Michael Morris’ sequel Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, via YouTube:
Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Oscar winner Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-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 (Hugh Grant). Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (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 & enthusiastic younger man (Leo Woodall). Now juggling work 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 (Chiwetel Ejiofor). The full returning cast includes Oscar winner Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones as Bridget’s two parents, and the new character, Isla Fisher as Rebecca, Bridget’s neighbor.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, also known as Bridget Jones 4, is directed by the acclaimed British TV filmmaker Michael Morris, director of the film To Leslie previously and lots of other TV shows, including many episodes of “Preacher”, “13 Reasons Why”, “Locke & Key”, “For All Mankind”, “Better Call Saul”. The screenplay is written by Helen Fielding, based on her own novel, with contributions from Emmy winner Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Eric) and Oscar nom Dan Mazer (I Give it A Year, Bridget Jones’s Baby). Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Jo Wallett. Universal Pictures will debut Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy streaming directly on Peacock in the US starting February 13th, 2025 early next year. Who’s interested?
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