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Renée Zellweger in 2004's "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason."
London's favorite diarist is about to get a chance to enter a new chapter in her already fabulous life. Get ready for the return of Bridget Jones to the screen!
Variety is reporting that Working Title Films is in the process of developing a third film chronicling the life of Helen Fielding's iconic heroine Bridget Jones, famously played by Oscar-winner Renée Zellweger.
British author Fielding became a pop culture sensation with "Bridget Jones's Diary," which focused on the hilariously real and hapless life of a 30-something single British woman, touching off a zeitgeist of "chick lit" narratives. The hit film version of the film starring Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth only heightened the characters' popularity. Fielding's continuation with "Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason" also proved a success as a novel and film.
A Singleton no more, the new film will probably be derived from the columns written by Fielding in 2005 for the Independent, which find Jones enduring her 40s and the possibility of motherhood.
Zellweger, who earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in the first film, gained instant notoriety for gaining weight to best represent the curvaceous Jones.
"Can I just tell you my body is whacked by the time we finish one of those," the actress said in an 2007 interview for Britain's Daily Mail. "It doesn't know what has happened because it thinks there's supposed to be a baby and there's no christening."
Should all details fall into place, production on the new "Bridget Jones" film could begin in late 2010 for a possible release in 2011.
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