Bridget Jones 4 Casting News Confirms the Worst Book Plot Twist Isn’t Going Anywhere

Summary:

• Bridget Jones 4 has been recently confirmed to be back on the screen next year becoming the finale of the 2000’s widely famous romcom.
• While the film production hasn’t started yet, it’s already clear that most of the actors are coming back to their iconic roles — except for one particular character whose sad fate may be explained in the film as well.
• Helen Fielding's original book, which the fourth film will be based on, features one particular character’s death that will have a direct influence on the whole plot.

After more than 20 years since the first film of the saga, Bridget Jones will be back again with the fourth film set to be released on Valentine’s Day in 2025.

While the production hasn’t started yet and the news about the upcoming finale of the famous rom com film series is still coming in, the recent update about the movie’s cast seems to prove the plot’s drastic changes that the fans have been fearing all this time.

Based on Helen Fielding’s novel of the same name, Bridget Jones’s Diary and its sequels are a loose interpretation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice — right up to the fact that the film’s story also features Mr. Darcy, Bridget’s object of affections and later husband portrayed by Colin Firth.

The latest film of the series, Bridget Jones’s Baby, was released back in 2016 and captured Bridget and Mark Darcy finally getting married and having a baby together, but the seemingly happy ending will probably switch to something more sinister in the upcoming fourth movie.

The future film, Bridget Jones: Mad About a Boy, can already count among its cast Renée Zellweger reprising her Bridget Jones’s role, Hugh Grant coming back to his role of Daniel Cleaver (though he didn’t appear in the third movie) and Emma Thompson, as well as newcomers Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall.

The fact that Colin Firth still isn’t confirmed in the famous story’s return makes fans create theories about his fate based on Fielding's book.

The Bridget Jones’s third book installment published back in 2013 suggests that Mark Darcy passed away 5 years before after being killed by a landmine in Sudan (apparently, during one of his attorney missions).

Thus, the whole plot and even the initial name of the book and the film as well implies that Bridget Jones, who will come back to the screen already in her 50s, will have to juggle with new love challenges and difficulties of being a single mother.