Third time for Sunrise trio?

REEL NEWS: Hooray! It looks as if the team behind Before Sunrise and Before Sunset may be reuniting for a third film.

REEL NEWS:Hooray! It looks as if the team behind Before Sunriseand Before Sunsetmay be reuniting for a third film.

Richard Linklater’s linked romances, in which Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke pottered around beautiful cities, won oceans of acclaim in 1995 and 2004. If they’re following a schedule, another film is due in 2013.

“All three of us have been having similar feelings that we’re ready to revisit those characters,” Hawke has said. “There’s nine years between the first two movies and, if we made the film next summer, it would be nine years again, so we really started thinking that would be a good thing to do. We’re going to try to write it this year.”

But what would they call it? Before Noondoesn't have the right ring to it.

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Donald Clarke

Donald Clarke

Donald Clarke, a contributor to The Irish Times, is Chief Film Correspondent and a regular columnist