Four Weddings and a Funeral cast reunite 25 years on

Written by Richard Curtis, the short is titled 'One Red Nose Day and a Wedding'

The cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral have reunited, 25 years after the original film was released, for a follow-up sketch for next year’s Red Nose Day.

Hugh Grant returns, reportedly as the father to Lily James’s bride, alongside Andie MacDowell, Anna Chancellor, John Hanna, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Rowan Atkinson.

Written by Richard Curtis, the short is titled One Red Nose Day and a Wedding and will be similar to the 2017 short film Red Nose Day Actually, which served as a continuation of 2003 festive favourite Love, Actually.

The 1994 film ended with Grant’s character, Charles, making a lifelong commitment to MacDowell’s Carrie, although the two agree not to get married. The couple are later shown to have had a son.

Thomas’s character Fiona, however, had an unrequited love for Charles, but script editor Emma Freud, who is Curtis’s wife, posted a photo to Twitter that appeared to suggest Charles and Fiona may share a kiss – unless she’s found herself another bespectacled suitor.

Freud announced the short on Twitter and wrote: “SO... for @RedNoseDay UK/USA we’re making a short film with the original cast of Four Weddings And A Funeral. It picks up 25 years after the 1st movie, is called One Red Nose Day And A Wedding, filming next week.”

Curtis said: We’re all definitely older – I suspect no wiser. It’s been really enjoyable working out what’s happened to all the characters – and now they get back together for the fifth wedding where, as usual, not everything will go as planned.”

The news follows the announcement that McDowell will appear in a Hulu series based on the hit 1994 romantic comedy, starring Game of Thrones‘s Nathalie Emmanuel, and co-written by Mindy Kaling.

The series will follow four American friends – Maya (Emmanuel), Craig (Smith), Ainsley (Rittenhouse) and Duffy (Reynolds) – who reunite for a London wedding. However, something disastrous happens at the alter and their lives are thrown into turmoil, with a year of relationships and heartbreak following.

MacDowell is to play the mother of Reynolds’s character Duffy in a nod to the original.

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding is a one-off special that will premiere exclusively during Red Nose Day 2019 on BBC One on 15 March. It will also feature as part of NBC’s programming for Red Nose Day USA in May.

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