Bridget Jones 3 Is/Isn't In Trouble

Just goes to show you studios will cry foul, any time any info of any troubled projects get out, even the smaller-scale, non-popcorn summer crowd-pleasers that don't have hundreds of millions of dollars into the productions and tie-in deals with McDonalds and Coca-Cola.

THR leaked trouble was amiss on Bridget Jones' Baby, the third Bridget Jones movie with Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant that they figured they'd trick you into wanting to see eight years after the crappy The Edge of Reason. The Intel is the script isn't working to the point of a number of key players, with Grant, leading the charge, asking for a delay of their start-date (lensing was supposed to start in a couple of weeks):

"According to several insiders, Grant has been especially vocal in his displeasure with the script, credited to David Nicholls and author Helen Fielding. It's unclear whether he refused to shoot the film (his deal is signed, says a source) or whether he simply expressed his dissatisfaction. Regardless, producers have decided not to proceed until the issues can be resolved."

Cut to barrage of "NU-UH!" reports coming officially out of Working Title Films, here from Coming Soon:

"Reports that Hugh Grant has exited 'Bridget Jones's Baby' are untrue. We are still working on the script, hence the delay to the start of production, but the film is going ahead as planned."

Fellas, the trades never said Grant quit the movie and, outside of that, you just confirmed everything they scooped? It looks like Working Title may have just showed their hand. Or they could be telling the truth since studios never, ever lie about these kind of things. Ever.