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Bridget Jones's Sequel?
The weight-obsessed, cigarette fiend addicted to becoming the perfect modern woman is being wooed for a possible big-screen return, as Working Title Films, the British producers behind Bridget Jones's Diary, has optioned rights to a follow-up feature.
Although Working Title (whose previous projects include Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill) has never produced a sequel, it has acquired Helen Fielding's novel sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and is negotiating a deal for her to write the screenplay, Daily Variety reports.
The production company's cochairman Eric Fellner tells the trade paper the sequel isn't a certainty, "but when you get numbers like this, you've got the think about it."
After just one week in theaters, Bridget Jones scored a respectable number three opening in the United States by taking in $10.7 million on just 1,400 screens. And the film shot straight to the top of the British box office, grossing $10 million, the biggest ever opening in Britain (topping Working Title's Notting Hill).
The movie version of Fielding's runaway bestseller received glowing reviews for its star, Renée Zellweger (British accent, cellulite and all), and good notices in general, and will likely be buoyed by strong word-of-mouth in coming weeks.
While Variety reports Zellweger has not yet been asked to return, Britain's Daily Telegraph reports the Texan actress (who was initially roasted in the British press) is in talks to reprise the part with one caveat: She doesn't have to gain weight.
The newspaper reports Zellweger, who gained 20 pounds for the part, initially told Working Title "no amount of money" would make her return, but has since softened her stance after learning she could reportedly keep trim for the sequel.
The book version of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (which was a bestseller despite mixed reviews) finds our bumbling heroine struggling to make her relationship with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth in the film) work while dealing with her overractive neuroses.
One potential problem for the sequel involves the producer's favorite actor. Hugh Grant's slick, love rat (and scene-stealing) character Daniel Cleaver does not appear in the second book.
And another, maybe bigger problem--what to do about Firth. Bridget obsesses over the actor, who actually turns up in the second book as one of Bridget's interview subjects.
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