Bridget Jones might be headed back to the big screen.
Helen Fielding is adapting her novel Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy as a movie, the author told Radio Times.
“Yes, I’m working on it, and I really hope it will happen,” she said. “Every film that gets made is a miracle—it’s really difficult to make films happen and to make them good. But I’d love to see it on the screen.”
Fielding’s iconic character, a single woman living in London, made her first appearance in Bridget Jones’s Diary, the 1996 novel based on the author’s column for the Independent. The novel, which a Kirkus critic called “closely observed and laugh-out-loud funny,” was a bestseller and formed the basis for the hit 2001 film starring Renée Zellweger.
Two more films followed: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, based on Fielding’s 2000 novel, and Bridget Jones’s Baby, based on some of Fielding’s newspaper columns.
People magazine reports that Zellweger says she’d be game to reprise her role as Bridget.
“I hope so,” the actor said on a radio show after being asked about the possibility of a fourth film. “I love being in her shoes. I mean, it makes me giggle, you know, every day on set the choices that we get to make about just how awkward we can make her circumstances. It’s just so much fun.”
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
