Yesterday thanks partly to Empire Magazine and to Deadline Hollywood there will be a Bridget Jones 3 no thanks to Universal Pictures and Working Title Films.
Universal Pictures and Working Title Films have at the moment got a headache that they need to sort out as Paul Feig who they had got to write the script for this as well as direct it has just pulled out eventhough he has already written the latest draft of the script for this 3rd outing of Bridget Jones.
Deadline reports that '...both sides agreed it didn't work out...' this I think is just a different way of saying the tale as old as time phrase that we love to hate 'both sides parted amicably'. They have also reported that the reason for Paul Feig leaving this film was:
'...it didn't work out and that maybe this is just a quintessential British comedy and that needs a British sensibility...'
This though is only Deadline's opinion but it could be a real reason. But also Colin Firth, Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant are said to be eager to return, but maybe this will be yet another film that Hugh Grant can put on his very empty roster at the moment.
But the real reason why Paul Feig has declined to do this upcoming project is because at the moment he's busy with Universal Studios working with Judd Apatow on a comedy that doesn't have a name as yet but it involves most of the cast from Bridesmaids coming back together as this will be about a man John Hamm who becomes obsessed with a women Melissa McCarthy, in case your not familiar with Melissa McCarthy then you'll probably recognise her from Gilmore Girls as Sookie.
But the studios have been trying to work out how to make a follow up, but John Hamm has been quoted as saying:
'...Kristen Wiig, who starred in and co-wrote the original, wasn't likely to come back...' and
I realise that I maybe have gone off on one about Bridesmaids and I may have done this a bit like Deadline have set their post but I'm sorry if this may be the case but...I just thought that the story line for this new Bridget Jones film has to be completly new in terms of not going the same way the other Bridget films have been going with their being lovey dovey songs in it from Jamie Cullum, Jameelia, Robbie Williams and stop using the old hat story of Bridget's a little over weight, she has two guys fighting over her and then at the end there is the obligatory fight between the boys...surely there isn't going to be a fight over her again or there could be a joke where both Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy are old men and both in old person's home and then their struggling to fight and are out of breath and have to sit down before they fall down then one of them finally has to say:
'Oh fuck it! Let's just call it a draw...you've won...I can't do this anymore....you've won her'
But if there was a fight at the end of this movie then it would be 'Oh god not this again'.
But there have been early drafts of this saying that Bridget doesn't marry Mark Darcy but instead goes for Daniel Cleaver and has her trying for a baby but Darcy is still in the background.
Well there's continuity for you!
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