Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant Set to Return for ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’

The film will release direct to Peacock in 2025

Renee Zellweger
Renée Zellweger, attends NBC's "The Thing About Pam" screening at the Whitby Hotel on March 07, 2022 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant are set to reprise their roles in the fourth installment of the “Bridget Jones” franchise, TheWrap has learned.

Grant will return as Daniel Cleaver while Emma Thompson, who was in the 2016 sequel “Bridget Jones’s Baby” will also return. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall are also confirmed in supporting roles.

“Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” adapted from the Helen Fielding novel of the same name, sees Zellweger’s Jones navigating life, work, family and love as a 51-year-old single mother and widow who is now engaged in a relationship with a 30-year-old man.

“To Leslie” director Michael Morris will direct.

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