'Bridget Jones 3' Gets The Go-Ahead

8/12/2011 12:19 PM ET

(RTTNews) - "Bridget Jones 3" has been given the green light.

The follow-up to the original 2001 film and its 2004 sequel ("The Edge of Reason")—which starred Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, and Hugh Grant--has been in planning since 2009, and EW has confirmed that Working Title Films have agreed to produce the third film in the franchise. The film has not yet been titled and will be based on the corresponding installment of the Helen Fielding novels on which the first two are based.
Firth recently hinted about the possible plot of the film in an interview with EW: "I can tell you that Bridget and Mark can't have children, I think that's the way it goes on. So then she makes the huge mistake of going back to Daniel Cleaver [Hugh Grant's character] for long enough to get pregnant. And I think he dumps her, and she's left stranded, and guess who comes back to rescue her?"
The first two films in the franchise earned $281.9 million and $262.5 million, respectively.