INTRODUCTION
Oscar
winners RENÉE ZELLWEGER and COLIN FIRTH are joined by PATRICK DEMPSEY
for the next chapter of the world’s favorite singleton in Bridget
Jones’s Baby.
Directed by SHARON MAGUIRE (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Incendiary),
the new film in the beloved comedy series based on creator HELEN
FIELDING’s heroine finds Bridget unexpectedly expecting.
After breaking up with Mark Darcy (Firth), Bridget Jones’s (Zellweger)
“happily ever after” hasn’t quite gone according to plan.
Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top
news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. Bridget has
everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong?
Then Bridget’s fortune takes a turn and she meets a dashing American
named Jack Qwant (Dempsey), the suitor who is everything Mr Darcy is
not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one
hitch: Bridget’s uncertain if the baby’s father is her longtime
love… or the newfound one from just across the pond.
The much-anticipated third installment of the Bridget Jones franchise
welcomes fellow Academy Award® winner EMMA THOMPSON (Saving
Mr Banks, Nanny McPhee series) to the cast that
also stars the returning Oscar® winner JIM BROADBENT (Iris, Harry
Potter series) and GEMMA JONES (BBC’s Marvelous, Sense
and Sensibility) as Bridget’s Mum and Dad.
Longtime collaborators TIM BEVAN and ERIC FELLNER (Les Misérables, The
Theory of Everything, Bridget Jones series) of Working
Title Films produce alongside DEBRA HAYWARD (Pride & Prejudice,
Bridget Jones series).
The production team is led by an accomplished behind-the-scenes crew,
which include cinematographer ANDREW DUNN (Precious, Hitch),
production designer JOHN PAUL KELLY (The Theory of Everything, Bloody
Sunday), editor MELANIE ANN OLIVER (Les Misérables, The
Danish Girl), costume designer STEVEN NOBLE (The Theory of
Everything, Bridget Jones’s Diary), hair and makeup
designer JAN SEWELL (X-Men: First Class, The Danish Girl)
and composer CRAIG ARMSTRONG (Moulin Rouge!, Love
Actually).
The comedy is executive produced by AMELIA GRANGER (About Time),
LIZA CHASIN (Everest) and Fielding. It is based on the characters
and story created by Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget
Jones: The Edge of Reason), from a screenplay by Fielding and DAN
MAZER (Borat, I Give It a Year) and Emma Thompson (Sense
and Sensibility, Nanny McPhee series).
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