'Brigit Jones' makers thinking to revisit the character

Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, the team behind the "Bridget Jones" films, believe it's time to revisit the iconic character, played by actor Renee Zellweger, in a fourth film.

The duo, who lead the London-based film and television production company Working Title, said the idea of exploring the protagonist through different decades of her age would be unique for mainstream cinema.

"There is something really rather gorgeous about that sequence of films. In terms of mainstream genre movies, I don't think anyone's done it before - the idea of taking Renee from her 20s, 30s, 40s and now into her 50s. I hope it gets done," Fellner told Variety in an interview.

In the last film of the popular rom-com series, "Brigit Jones's Baby", the title character transforms from a struggling singleton to a married working mother. The 2016 film was drawn from author Helen Fielding's columns for the UK newspaper The Independent.

Zellweger in May said she would love to reprise the role in a fourth film, ...