Short Answer: More Austen!
The original movie was based on Pride and Prejudice, and it was a big hit. The film's sequel, Edge of Reason, was based on another Jane Austen novel, Persuasion.
But the third one, about her baby, does not seem to be Austen-based. This is a lapse, but not unrecoverable.
For the next one, which is supposedly in development (although the last one came out in 2016, and it's now 2023, so...?) there are are other Austen books to work from.
Of the three, two are "big hits" in the literary world: Sense and Sensibility, and Emma (the one Clueless is based on).
There are also Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey, which are less well-known, and Lady Susan, which I just found out about now.
At this point, it's OK to have the leads from the existing movies take a backseat-- and have her son now be old enough to play the lead in a new rom com, possibly the start of a trilogy. If you can't build a rom com around a guy, well, maybe Bridget had another baby, a girl, who is now old enough to be undergo the plot machinations of Emma (if I recall, Sense and Sensibility is built around sisters).
I can see Emma working better as a bassis: Bridget's daughter grows up, finds and reads her mother's diaries, and decides that-- using her mother's life as both an example and counterexample-- she now knows all she needs to know to be a successful matchmaker.
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