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- Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire from a screenplay by Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis.
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Fielding wrote the original screenplays for Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones’s Baby and the forthcoming Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, further developed by additional writers. Bridget Jones Diary, was directed by Sharon Maguire, with the screenplay developed by Fielding, Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis.
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire from a screenplay by Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Fielding.
- Helen Fielding
- 1996
- Plot
- Publication
- Awards
- Film Adaptation
- Musical Adaptation
- Critical Reception
The plot is focused on Bridget's love life. She worries on a regular basis about dying without someone and going on to be eaten by dogs when her singleness causes her death not to be discovered promptly, an obsession that a USA Today reviewer called "one of [Bridget's] more cheerful daydreams".However, during the course of the year she becomes invo...
This novel evolved from Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary columns in The Independent and The Daily Telegraph. Fielding devised the novel with the help of Independent journalist Charles Leadbeater; it is roughly based on Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. As a columnist, Fielding often lampooned society's obsession with women's magaz...
The novel won the 1998 British Book of the Year, and Tracie Bennett won the 2000 Audie Award for "Solo Female Narration" for her audiobook narration. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 75 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
A film adaptation of the novel was released in 2001. The film stars Renée Zellweger (in an Academy Award nominated role) as the eponymous heroine, Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver, and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy. It was directed by Sharon Maguire (Helen Fielding's friend who was the inspiration for Shazzer) and the screenplay was written by Fielding, An...
A musical version was in the works, with the show due to open in London's West End in 2012, although this never happened. British pop singer Lily Allen wrote the score and lyrics, and Stephen Daldry was said to be directing, joined by his co-worker Peter Darling, who would have served as choreographer. An official cast for the production was never ...
On 5 November 2019, the BBC included Bridget Jones's Diary on its list of the 100 most inspiring novels.
Voila! Finally, the Bridget Jones's Diary script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the movie based on the Helen Fielding book starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, etc. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Bridget Jones's Diary.
Apr 10, 2024 · Revisit an interview with Helen Fielding from the April 1998 issue of British Vogue – touching on her girlhood in Yorkshire, dating Richard Curtis and writing the ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ screenplay with the help of a book (“very Bridget-like behaviour”).
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Apr 13, 2021 · The story of Bridget Jones’s Diary begins in the mid-1990s when The Independent, a London-based newspaper, approached author Helen Fielding about writing a series of columns about her...
Jun 26, 2024 · Helen Fielding is the author of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries. She was part of the screenwriting team on the associated movies.
