New Bridget Jones film very sad, says Hugh Grant

Bridget Jones fans person agelong adored the films for their cringe-worthy, hilarious and heartwarming scenes.

But Hugh Grant has warned that the 4th instalment successful the franchise - owed retired connected Valentine's Day adjacent twelvemonth - volition person a precise antithetic tone.

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"As good arsenic being highly funny, it's very, precise sad," said the actor, who volition reprise his relation arsenic the dashing antagonist Daniel Cleaver.

He besides revealed that determination was "no evident role" for him successful the film, but "they wanted to cram maine in".

Oscar-winner Renée Zellweger is besides backmost arsenic the rubric quality successful Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.

The movie takes its rubric from the latest Bridget Jones novel, which was published successful 2013.

In the book, readers rejoin Bridget successful her 50s, a parent to 2 children and widowed pursuing the decease of her hubby Mark Darcy.

Darcy was played by Colin Firth successful the earlier Bridget Jones movies.

The accumulation workplace has not commented connected however intimately the caller movie volition travel the storyline of its paperback namesake, but it has been revealed writer Helen Fielding has written the script.

Speaking connected the Graham Norton show, Grant indicated that Fielding had utilized a real-life calamity to travel up with the plotline.

"She had a bittersweet story," helium said.

"She got joined to an American screenwriter, she had children and past helium died."

Grant said that Fielding past started penning a caller astir a pistillate raising children by herself, and past realised the main quality was "a spot similar Bridget".

"So she made it into a Bridget Jones book," helium said.

"And arsenic good arsenic being highly funny, it's very, precise sad."

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Grant, who is champion known for starring successful romcoms including Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral, did not look successful the 3rd film.

He said that initially, helium felt determination was "absolutely nary role" for his character, Daniel, successful the 4th mentation either.

"But they wanted to cram maine in," helium said.

So helium said helium sat down with producers to assistance signifier the character, who was known successful the earlier films for being a serial womaniser.

"I felt that what they projected was fine, but not great.

"And I felt that helium needed a 3rd dimension, he's successful his 60s now, you can't conscionable person him smoothing his mode down King's Road eyeing up young girls.

"Something needs to person happened to him successful the interim.

"So we invented a alternatively bully - I invented a alternatively bully - interim story."

The last mentation got his approval, helium said.

"It's really a precise bully and moving script. And I accidental that arsenic idiosyncratic who's horrid astir scripts. This was brilliant."

Fielding's archetypal publication Bridget Jones's Diary was published successful 1996 and a sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was released 3 years later.

Written successful the signifier of a idiosyncratic diary, the novels chronicle the beingness of a hapless 30-something azygous moving pistillate surviving successful London.

In 2001, the archetypal movie adaptation starring American histrion Zellweger, with Grant arsenic Daniel Cleaver and Colin Firth arsenic Mark Darcy, was released.

Zellweger was Oscar-nominated for the relation and, successful 2004, the sequel was released, though it was not arsenic critically good received.

Emma Thompson, who debuted her quality of Bridget's despairing obstetrician successful the 3rd film, Bridget Jones's Baby, is besides acceptable for a instrumentality successful the 4th film.

New faces connected the formed database see Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave) and Leo Woodall (One Day), who is rumoured to play Bridget's younger emotion involvement arsenic she faces dating anew.

Fielding antecedently said she had decided to constitute Mark Darcy retired of the bid due to the fact that she didn't privation Bridget to go "a smug married", a destiny deemed utterly lamentable by earlier musings of Jones.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is acceptable for UK merchandise connected Valentine's Day 2025.