Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

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).

Comedy Romance Sequel

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  Renee Zellweger

  Judy, Here and Now

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  Hugh Grant

  The Gentlemen, Cloud Atlas

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  Emma Thompson

  The Sheep Detectives, Dead of Winter

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  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  2012, The Life of Chuck

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  Leo Woodall

  Nuremberg, Tuner

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  Isla Fisher

  Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, Playdate

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  Nico Parker

  Poetic License, How to Train Your Dragon

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  Jim Broadbent

  Jay Kelly, Cloud Atlas

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  Josette Simon

  Tell That to the Winter Sea

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  Leila Farzad

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  Gemma Jones

  Sense and Sensibility (30th Anniversary), Wicked Little Letters

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  Sarah Solemani

  Greed

Who is making Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – Crew List

A look at Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Michael Morris last helmed To Leslie and Golden Gate. The film's writer Helen Fielding last penned Bridget Jones's Baby and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

Director

Michael Morris

Screenwriters

Helen Fielding
Abi Morgan
Dan Mazer

Producers

Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner,Jo Wallett

Production – What we know about the Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

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Key Facts

• The three previous Bridget Jones films—Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)—have earned more than $800 million worldwide.
• The film will be released in theaters internationally by Universal Pictures and will stream exclusively on Peacock in the U.S.
• Sarah Solemani, Sally Phillips, Shirley Henderson and James Callis will return to reprise their roles as Bridget’s friends (Variety, 5/29/2024).
• Based on the third “Bridget Jones” novel by Helen Fielding.

Movie Filming Timeline: Production Status Updates

Nov 2024

Completed

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Jun 2024

Production

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Apr 2024

Pre-Production

Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. Preparations are underway to start production.

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