Bridget Jones Part Three: Bugger Off!

Renee Zellweger has told producers at Working Title, the production company who financed the first two Bridget Jones films, that she’d happily reprise her role as the verbally incontinent spinster. Working Title has bought the rights to Helen Fielding’s third novel in her series, but oddly enough, she hasn’t even written the novel yet.

Renee would do well to not gain the requisite twenty-five pounds just yet, but the storyline does have a projected theme for the benefit of the Mister Darcy junkies:

“The next film will leap forward 10 years. Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver are still on the scene and Bridget is about to give birth to Daniel’s baby.

“Helen Fielding has started on the book. Obviously her own baby daughter has stalled production a little but now that Working Title has signed on the dotted line, she’ll be trying to finish the book as quickly as possible.”

The author has sold the story before it’s written on the basis of past brilliance, and now has gotten into a mad scramble to finish things up in a very half-assed manner. That’s the story of my life as well, dahlings.

Source: Stuff