Bridget Jones is again! Fourth film begins filming in May

Her rollercoaster love life, her weight struggles, and her spectacular consumption of chardonnay and cigarettes have gripped the world for greater than 20 years.

Now The Mail on Sunday can reveal one-time singleton Bridget Jones is again.

A fourth film will start filming in London in May, 23 years after Helen Fielding’s heroine first hit the silver display screen, with pre-production already properly beneath manner.

Renee Zellweger will return within the lead position and is already searching for a house to reside in whereas she’s in Britain, based on sources.

The new movie comes eight years after the final instalment, Bridget Jones’s Baby and is to be based mostly on Ms Fielding’s 2013 novel, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, which noticed her elevating younger youngsters as a single mum whereas navigating social media and courting apps.

A fourth film will start filming in London in May, 23 years after Helen Fielding’s heroine first hit the silver display screen. Pictured, Renee Zellwegger as Bridget Jones

Ms Zellweger, 54, already has a group searching for lodging for her and her boyfriend, TV presenter Ant Anstead, 44 (pictured) 

Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, who performed love rivals Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver, are each anticipated to return of their roles in some capability.

A film supply mentioned: ‘Bridget is again and is about to take over London. Filming is being mapped out already and all the pre- manufacturing is in place.

‘There was some uncertainty about whether or not it will get off the bottom, however the film is coming.

‘Renee is happy about bringing Bridget again. She adores the character a lot. Bridget Jones fever is anticipated to brush throughout London this spring.’

Ms Zellweger, 54, already has a group searching for lodging for her and her boyfriend, TV presenter Ant Anstead, 44, whereas she is engaged on the undertaking.

On earlier shoots she employed a bachelorette pad in Kensington, West London, the place she would go unnoticed as she shopped domestically. But this time she and Anstead, who hails from Plymouth, are understood to be searching for one thing larger.

The most up-to-date movie, launched in 2016, noticed Bridget shocked when she came upon she was pregnant. It ended along with her marrying Mark, the high-flying lawyer who she’d had on and off emotions for throughout the three films. It was additionally revealed that he was the daddy to her child.

Colin Firth (pictured) and Hugh Grant , who performed love rivals Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver, are each anticipated to return of their roles in some capability

Grant did not seem in that film as Cleaver was presumed lifeless in the beginning. At the tip, although, there was a newspaper report that mentioned he had been discovered alive.

A e book based mostly on that story was revealed after the movie, and after the Mad About The Boy novel, though it was set earlier. And in Mad About The Boy, Mark Darcy is lifeless, leaving Jones as a widow, though it isn’t recognized if the film will likely be trustworthy to that.

When requested a couple of fourth film instalment, Fielding beforehand informed Radio Times: ‘Every movie that will get made is a miracle. I feel it is actually troublesome to make movies and to make them occur and to make them good and we would like it to be actually good. But I actually hope so. I’d like to see it on the display screen.’

There have been rumours final 12 months the film had been axed because of the US actors’ strikes, however sources mentioned these claims have been ‘nonsense’.

The first movie, Bridget Jones’s Diary, got here out in 2001 and grossed £222 million on the field workplace – greater than ten instances what it value to make. Ms Zellweger’s final movie was the 2019 biopic of Judy Garland.