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There were\u00a0four\u00a0Bridget Jones<\/a><\/em>\u00a0books, but there were\u00a0only three\u00a0Bridget Jones<\/em> movies made.<\/p>\n You see where this is going right? I mean, you must.<\/p>\n Some\u00a0eight years after the most recent film,\u00a0Bridget Jones\u2019 Baby<\/em>, Ren\u00e9e Zellweger<\/a> will return as the title character in\u00a0Bridget Jones: Mad About the<\/em> Boy, based on the book of the same name by author Helen Fielding.\u00a0<\/em>Also returning will be longtime series co-star Hugh Grant, along with Emma Thompson. The film will also feature Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Popular Rom-Coms That Are Secretly Toxic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n The Bridget Jones character began as the pseudonym of Fielding\u2019s for\u00a0a column in the English newspaper\u00a0The Independent.\u00a0<\/em>The column, about the travails of a single woman in her 30s, became popular, and then spawned the first book,\u00a0Bridget Jones\u2019 Diary<\/em>, which\u00a0in turn grew into\u00a0a best-seller, and then a hit film adaptation, starring Zellweger (who is not English).<\/p>\n Technically\u00a0Mad About the Boy<\/em> was the third of the four\u00a0Bridget Jones<\/em> books, but it was\u00a0not\u00a0adapted into the third\u00a0Bridget Jones<\/em> film. (That was Bridget Jones\u2019 Baby<\/i>, which was also the title of the fourth book.)<\/p>\n The key name missing from the cast list for this new movie is Colin Firth, who appeared in the prior three films alongside Zellweger. According to Wikipedia<\/a> (which is never wrong),\u00a0Mad About the Boy\u00a0<\/em>\u201cis set in present-day London; Bridget is 51, still keeping a diary, but is also immersed in texting and experimenting with social media. It\u00a0is revealed in the book that Mark Darcy [Firth\u2019s character] had died five years earlier and that they have two children, Billy and Mabel, aged seven and five respectively.\u201d<\/p>\n