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Another BRIDGET JONES Movie, + Blanchett's In Another Historical Epic!!

Merrick here...
These pretty much speaks for themselves: From VARIETY:
The untitled third "Bridget Jones" pic, which is still in its early stages and probably won't go into production until the end of next year, will see Zellweger reprise her role as a British publishing exec struggling to find love. It will likely be based on the weekly columns author Helen Fielding wrote in 2005 for British newspaper the Independent in which Bridget, now in her 40s, attempts to have a baby before it's too late. Working Title co-toppers Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan have yet to set a writer or director
As I've somehow managed to avoid both of the previous BRIDGET JONES films, I hearby relinquish my right to snark in this matter.
The same piece indicates Cate Blanchett looks to be set for INDIAN SUMMER, in which she...
will star as Lady Edwina Mountbatten in "Indian Summer," based on the book of the same name by Alex von Tunzelmann, about the last days of Britain's colonial rule of India in 1947
I was going to say they the Powers That Be might want to consider changing this fllm's name to NATIVE AMERICAN MIDYEAR, or something like that. But if the film is actually set in India, I guess that doesn't work out. William Nicholson (GLADIATOR, ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE) will script this one; von Tunzelmann's book (HERE) sounds like it may be one o' 'dem interestin', smart-like things. Or, so I've heard...

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