After a decade of being Doctor McDreamy in Grey’s Anatomy, Patrick Dempsey has know left his Seattle stethoscope and the soap opera dramatics behind. Well, actually the latter isn’t quite true, as Deadline reports he’s in talks to join the third Bridget Jones film, Bridget Jones’ Baby.
The movie has been in the works for a long time, but there have been a few issues, not least over which of the original cast would return. In the end they’ve decided not to base it on Helen Fielding’s latest Bridget novel, Bad About The Boy (which controversially killed off Mark Darcy) and it will instead be loosely based around Fielding’s newspaper columns.
The change may partly be to do with the fact Hugh Grant didn’t want to return, but Colin Firth did, and so Darcy will be alive for the movie, while Grant will be absent.
Not much is known about the film’s plot, although it is known it will see Bridget getting unexpectedly pregnant. There’s no info on who the father might be, and with nothing released about Dempsey’s role, there’s a chance he might be one of the contenders – or indeed he could be getting his stethoscope out again as her doctor.
Sharon Maguire, who helmed the original Bridget Jones’s Diary movie, is directing once more, with filming due to kick off on October 2nd.