{"id":23942,"date":"2012-11-09T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T22:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=23942"},"modified":"2021-02-05T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:23:57","slug":"the-delay-in-that-third-bridget-jones-film-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/09\/the-delay-in-that-third-bridget-jones-film-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Delay In That Third BRIDGET JONES Film Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fans of the two Bridget Jones<\/strong> movies are probably wondering when they are going to be seeing star Renee Zellweger slip back into her reasonably convincing British accent for a third go-round as the love-lorn, hapless titular diarist.<\/p>\n

Well, it could be some time, according to Helen Fielding, writer of the novels that the first two films were based on. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 series Woman\u2019s Hour<\/em> today, the novelist stated that while she is working a third book chronicling Bridget Jones\u2019 misadventures, those currently working on the third have been developing their own story.<\/p>\n

The movie is a different, earlier story, not based on a novel. It started with some columns I wrote in the Independent about six years ago. But I think with a third installment stakes are very high. We all go back a long way, we\u2019re all really fond of each other and everyone really wants to get it right but that means there\u2019s a lot of voices, a lot of writers and really getting Bridget right, I always think it\u2019s like a little duck. In the end it needs to skim effortlessly along the surface but underneath the legs are going really, really fast. It\u2019s complicated. And it\u2019s quite hard to do that when there\u2019s a lot of people designing the duck.<\/p>\n

I like the other people very much and one never wants to be that nightmare author who\u2019s going \u201cYou\u2019re murdering my babies!\u201d I think the problem is that it\u2019s a very specific point of view and very specific voice and however much I stand back we still need that voice. It\u2019s particularly hard without a novel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, there is always the chance that Fielding will finish her book before a screenplay reaches a point where everyone is satisfied so they just trash what they\u2019ve been working on in favor of adapting the new novel. This might be the easier way, given that the \u201clot of voices\u201d that Fielding mentions probably covers everyone from writer David Nicholls and director Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty<\/strong>) of the project to studio execs with their own \u201ccreative\u201d ideas to Zellweger and co-star Hugh Grant who probably both want to have some input as well.<\/p>\n

Via Bleeding Cool<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of cooks in the screenwriting kitchen.<\/div>\n

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