Peacock has set the premiere date for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, starring two-time Academy Award® winner Renée Zellweger. Check out the trailer.
Returning to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages, Oscar® winner Renée Zellweger (Judy, Cold Mountain) will soon be back as Bridget Jones, a woman whose inimitable approach to life and love and ability to triumph despite adversity redefined an entire film genre.
The character of Bridget Jones first blasted into our collective consciousness in Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon, Bridget Jones’s Diary, which became a international bestseller and a blockbuster film. As a single career woman living in London, she not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added “singletons,” “smug-marrieds” and “f—wittage” into the global lexicon.
When we last saw Bridget in Bridget Jones’s Baby, she was swimming in happiness, having given birth to a baby boy and married her love, top lawyer Mark Darcy (Oscar® winner Colin Firth, The King’s Speech), her son’s father.
But, alas, a happily every after was not to be for them. In Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark 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 stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (BAFTA winner Hugh Grant, Four Weddings and a Funeral).
Pressured by her Urban Family — Shazzer (Sally Phillips, Bridget Jones’s Diary), Jude (Shirley Henderson, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason), and Tom (James Callis, Bridget Jones’s Baby); her work colleague, Miranda (Sarah Solemani, The Five); her mother (BAFTA winner Gemma Jones, Sense and Sensibility); and her gynecologist, Dr. Rawlings (Oscar® winner Emma Thompson, The Remains of the Day) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, and she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (Leo Woodall, One Day, The White Lotus).
Now juggling work, home 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 (Oscar® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave, The Man Who Fell to Earth).
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, a Peacock Original Film, streams exclusively in the US starting February 13, 2025.
The film will be released in cinemas internationally by Universal Pictures beginning February 12, 2025.
The cast also includes Oscar® winner Jim Broadbent (Iris), who returns as Bridget’s dad, and Isla Fisher (Now You See Me, The Great Gatsby), who plays a new character, Rebecca, Bridget’s neighbor.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Morris (To Leslie, Better Call Saul) from a screenplay by BAFTA nominee Helen Fielding, based on her eponymous novel, with contributions from Emmy® winner Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Eric) and Oscar® nominee Dan Mazer (I Give it A Year, Bridget Jones’s Baby).
The film is produced for Working Title by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (The Danish Girl, Darkest Hour, Fargo, Les Misérables and The Theory of Everything). The film is also produced by Jo Wallett (Wicked Little Letters, Catherine Called Birdy), and executive produced by Helen Fielding, Renée Zellweger, Amelia Granger, and Sarah-Jane Wright. Working Title has produced all of the “Bridget Jones” films.
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
“Bridget Jones” books by Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason DVD
