Bridget Jones followers have lengthy adored the movies for his or her cringe-worthy, hilarious and heartwarming scenes.
However Hugh Grant has warned that the fourth instalment within the franchise – due out on Valentine’s Day subsequent 12 months – could have a really totally different tone.
Warning: If you happen to don’t need to know in regards to the plot of Bridget Jones 4, look away now…
“In addition to being extraordinarily humorous, it’s very, very unhappy,” stated the actor, who will reprise his function because the dashing antagonist Daniel Cleaver.
He additionally revealed that there was “no apparent function” for him within the movie, however “they needed to cram me in”.
Oscar-winner Renée Zellweger can also be again because the title character in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.
The movie takes its title from the newest Bridget Jones novel, which was revealed in 2013.
Within the e book, readers rejoin Bridget in her 50s, a mom to 2 youngsters and widowed following the demise of her husband Mark Darcy.
Darcy was performed by Colin Firth within the earlier Bridget Jones films.
The manufacturing studio has not commented on how carefully the brand new movie will observe the storyline of its paperback namesake, nevertheless it has been revealed creator Helen Fielding has written the script.
Talking on the Graham Norton present, Grant indicated that Fielding had used a real-life tragedy to provide you with the plotline.
“She had a tragic story,” he stated.
“She received married to an American screenwriter, she had youngsters after which he died.”
Grant stated that Fielding then began writing a novel a few girl elevating youngsters by herself, after which realised the principle character was “a bit like Bridget”.
“So she made it right into a Bridget Jones e book,” he stated.
“And in addition to being extraordinarily humorous, it’s very, very unhappy.”
Grant, who’s greatest identified for starring in romcoms together with Notting Hill and 4 Weddings and a Funeral, didn’t seem within the third movie.
He stated that originally, he felt there was “completely no function” for his character, Daniel, within the fourth model both.
“However they needed to cram me in,” he stated.
So he stated he sat down with producers to assist form the character, who was identified within the earlier movies for being a serial womaniser.
“I felt that what they proposed was high-quality, however not nice.
“And I felt that he wanted a 3rd dimension, he’s in his 60s now, you may’t simply have him smoothing his means down King’s Street eyeing up younger ladies.
“One thing must have occurred to him within the interim.
“So we invented a moderately good – I invented a moderately good – interim story.”
The ultimate model received his approval, he stated.
“It’s really an excellent and transferring script. And I say that as somebody who’s horrid about scripts. This was good.”
Fielding’s first e book Bridget Jones’s Diary was revealed in 1996 and a sequel Bridget Jones: The Fringe of Cause was launched three years later.
Written within the type of a private diary, the novels chronicle the lifetime of a hapless 30-something single working girl residing in London.
In 2001, the primary movie adaptation starring American actress Zellweger, with Grant as Daniel Cleaver and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, was launched.
Zellweger was Oscar-nominated for the function and, in 2004, the sequel was launched, though it was not as critically effectively obtained.
Emma Thompson, who debuted her character of Bridget’s despairing obstetrician within the third movie, Bridget Jones’s Child, can also be set for a return within the fourth movie.
New faces on the forged checklist embody Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave) and Leo Woodall (One Day), who’s rumoured to play Bridget’s youthful love curiosity as she faces relationship anew.
Fielding beforehand stated she had determined to put in writing Mark Darcy out of the sequence as a result of she didn’t need Bridget to change into “a smug married”, a destiny deemed completely lamentable by earlier musings of Jones.
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is about for UK launch on Valentine’s Day 2025.