BRIDGET JONES’S BABY (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Renée Zellweger (Chicago), Colin Firth (The King’s Speech), Patrick Dempsey (Enchanted), Sally Phillips (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), James Callis (Austenland), Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Shirley Henderson (Filth), Jim Broadbent (Iris), Gemma Jones (You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger), Jessica Hynes (Swallows and Amazons), Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones’s Diary), director; Emma Thompson (Nanny McPhee), Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason) and Dan Mazer (I Give It A Year), writers; Tim Bevan (The Theory of Everything), Eric Fellner (Hot Fuzz) and Debra Hayward (Les Miserables), producers; Craig Armstrong (Love Actually), composer; Andrew Dunn (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), cinematographer; Melanie Oliver (The Danish Girl), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

It’s been some time since we last left Bridget Jones (Zellweger), but unfortunately her supposed happy ending with Mark Darcy (Firth) didn’t quite turn out how she had planned, with the two having broken up and leaving Bridget single once again. She decides to focus on her career as a news producer, which seems to go well until she meet Jack Qwant (Dempsey), a charming American who seems to be everything that Darcy simply isn’t. Soon, the biggest bombshell of them all arrives: Bridget discovers that she is pregnant – but in a shocking twist, the father could be either Darcy or Jack…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

At long last, Renée Zellweger is back in her most iconic role, that of Helen Fielding’s ever-unlucky singleton, and is taking an extra maternal step in a sequel that hopefully will make up for it being rather too late.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER 2016

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