Colin Firth: Bridget Jones film is in the works w/Colin Firth - it's just not the third Bridget Jones book???

"Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy looks unlikely to get film" however...

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Would a Bridget Jones film be the same without Colin Firth? Movie producers seem to think not.

Film rights to Helen Fielding’s latest novel Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy are yet to be snapped up despite strong book sales, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The new book sees Bridget Jones widowed at the age of 51, following the death of her former love Mark Darcy, played by Colin Firth in the film franchise.

The production companies are instead working on Bridget Jones’s Baby, a film based on an original screenplay by Fielding, which will include Colin Firth.

The film, which will star Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant alongside Firth, was due to start filming in 2012 but has been delayed.

Tim Bevan of Working Title told The Hollywood Reporter: “We are still working on the script, hence the delay to the start of production, but the film is going ahead as planned.”

READ MORE HERE: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/bridget-jones-mad-about-the-boy-looks-unlikely-to-get-film-8886645.html

Hugh Grant wants Bridget Jones to be "significantly reinvented" before he signs up for 3 (iafrica)

Hugh Grant says that the Bridget Jones' Diary franchise needs to be "significantly reinvented" before he signs on for a third movie.

 Plans are underway for the next film in the popular series, but the star – who played Daniel Cleaver in the first two films – says he and co-stars Colin Firth and Renee Zellweger are yet to sign on for the new one. He said: "I did like playing Daniel Cleaver, but there is no definite part three. None of the three of us have signed up yet.

"There's been a number of drafts that have had great things in them but haven't quite hit the bulls-eye. "But they're working on it again now with yet another writer, as soon as they get to a good point we will do it, I'm sure. It's just that it does have to be significantly reinvented."

 He also revealed that the third movie will have to be set some years after 2004's Bridget Jones' Diary: The Edge of Reason, because he and his co-stars have aged so much since. He told Total Film: "I don't think you could pretend that it's a year after the end of the last one because we look f***ing ancient now, all three of us."


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Hugh Grant “still onboard” for Bridget Jones (Inside Ireland)

February 3, 2012

 

By Olivia Kerr

 

 

British actor Hugh Grant will return to star in the third “Bridget Jones” film, despite recent rumours that he had dropped out of the cast.

Tim Bevan, Working Title chairman said: “Reports that Hugh Grant has exited Bridget Jones’s Baby are untrue.



“We are still working on the script, hence the delay to the start of production, but the film is going ahead as planned.”

This comes following Grant’s comments on “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”. In 2009, Grant said: “”I think Bridget Jones two was a mistake, to be honest with you.

“It wasn’t a very good script and I resisted it for a long time, so did Colin and so did Renee. And we got kind of conned into making it.”


Read more:  http://insideireland.ie/2012/02/03/grant-still-onboard-for-bridget-jones-53772/

Colin Firth, Hugh Grant: Now they're saying Hugh Grant still wants Bridget Jones Baby (Hollywod Reporter)

British label co-chairman Tim Bevan says third outing for character still on track to shoot this year with Grant, Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth.

LONDON – Working Title Films issued a statement Friday playing down the media storm swirling around problems with the Hugh Grant starrer Bridget Jones’s Baby.

 

Amid press and media reports that the production is facing delays and speculation putting Grant’s involvement at the center of problems, Working Title co-chairman Tim Bevan took the unprecedented step to quell the stories publicly.

“Reports that Hugh Grant has exited Bridget Jones’s Baby are untrue,” said Bevan. “We are still working on the script hence the delay to the start of production, but the film is going ahead as planned."



STORY: 'Bridget Jones 3' In Trouble As Script Issues Prompt Delay


Read more:  http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bridget-jones-hugh-grant-working-title-286909

Colin Firth: Hugh Grant refuses to do Bridget Jones 3 until the script’s on par with Did You Hear About the Morgans? (MH)

Author : "Caffeinated" Clint (Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 3:37 am)

Tags: Bridget Jones's Baby, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Renee Zellweger

Quite frankly, I don’t know why Colin Firth or, to a lesser extent, Hugh Grant would even want to do another “Bridget Jones” movie. Both are doing quite Okay without having to whip the ol’ sequel pony again – particularly Firth, who has been hotter than heck since winning that Oscar for “Kings Speech”. One can only assume, especially with these rumours of script issues, that money has talked or Renee Zellweger gives good back-rubs.

Whatever the case, Firth, Grant and Zellwacky are doing the third, “Bridget Jones’s Baby”. Or they will be, once production resumes.

THR’s suggesting that Hugh Grant – a man who was this close to signing on to replace Charlie Sheen on “Two and-a-Half Men” – has walked from the project because of script issues. Having been involved in such wordsmithy wonders as “American Dreamz”, “Music & Lyrics” and “Two Weeks Notice”, it’s already clear Grant demands the best from his scripts, right? Heh.


Read more:  http://www.moviehole.net/201252386-hugh-grant-refuses-to-do-bridget-jones-3-until-the-scripts-on-par-with-did-you-hear-about-the-morgans

Colin Firth Can’t Wait “To Be Reunited” With ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ Cast

December 7, 2011 3:00 pm

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Hurrah! When I opted to follow Colin Firth on Twitter (a little late to the game, but I’ve been preoccupied with the royal family), I stumbled upon Mark Darcy and Bridget Jones‘s accounts. Best. Wednesday. Ever!
At last night’s premiere of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy at the Arclight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, Firth talked to CNN about the third installment of Bridget Jones’s Diary and working with Hugh Grant again (Daniel Cleaver, emotional f*ckwit).

“There’s every intention to get that done,” Firth said, referring to the film – reportedly titled Bridget Jones’s Baby. “It’ll be nice [to be reunited]. It would be like one of those rather tempestuous ’70s pop bands trying to get together in a way. We always had a good time.” Marry me, Mr. Darcy.

A Look Back At Both Bridget Jones’s Diary Premieres

Firth said that he and Grant have known each other for ages, but didn’t share a lot of screen time together in Diary, other than throwing down fisticuffs. “We very rarely ever worked together, except to pull each other’s hair. Both of those films we had very little screen time together which we share. It’ll be like a family reunion. I’m looking forward to it,” Firth told a CNN reporter.

Also at the premiere: Gary Oldman, Emily Blunt, Olivia d’Abo, Mark Strong, Gray Damon, and Corbin Bleu.

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Colin Firth 'looking forward' to third 'Bridget Jones'

December 7th, 2011 11:11 AM ET   It's been reported that a third "Bridget Jones" film called "Bridget Jones's  Baby" is in the works, and Colin Firth tells CNN "there's every intention to get that done." And a good thing, too, as it sounds like Firth and his "Jones" co-star Hugh Grant didn't get to spend nearly enough time together. "It'll be nice [to be reunited]," Firth, 51, said of working with the  cast again Tuesday. "It would be like one of those rather tempestuous '70s pop bands trying to get together in a way. We always had a good time." Firth says he and Grant "go back quite a long way, but we very rarely ever worked together, except to pull each other's hair. Both of those films we had very little screen time together which we share. It'll be like a family  reunion. I'm looking forward to it." In the meantime, the Oscar winning actor is starring in this weekend's  release, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," along with Gary Oldman, who  plays a Cold War spy who has to come out of retirement to track down a Soviet agent. There's been a healthy amount of Oscar buzz surrounding Oldman's  portrayal, and Firth thinks at the very least, Oldman should get a nod. "He's been doing virtuoso work for decades now. He's the actor  every actor in my generation envied and admired and looked to as the person who not only had versatility but he inhabited completely," Firth said. "It's one thing to be dynamic and versatile, but it's another to really make all those roles authentic. There seems to be no limit to his talent...It's the most beautifully quiet and internalized performance." Post by: CNN's Douglas Hyde contributed to this report Filed under: Celebrities • movies

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