BEFORE MIDNIGHT

Are Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy Shooting BEFORE SUNRISE/BEFORE SUNSET Sequel BEFORE MIDNIGHT in Greece Right Now?

Not sure anyone else cares, but I am so in love with the BEFORE series, and this news excites me greatly!

A sequel to follow up on Before Sunrise and Before Sunset has been rumored for years now, pretty much since Sunset premiered in 2004. In June, Ethan Hawke suggested the sequel---rumored to be titled Before Midnight---was supposed to shoot this summer (although co-star Julie Delpy believed they were at least a year awa

y). As you may have noticed, we are running out of summer. Is it possible that Hawke and Delpy already started shooting Before Midnight with director Richard Linklater? A bit of detective work places Hawke and Delpy in Greece right now, working on a project that very well may be the sequel of interest. It's best to pass along the info in bullet form after the jump. Thanks to The Playlist for the tip. GR Reporter claims that Linklater has turned the area of Messinia in the southwest Peloponnese into a film set for the conclusion of his trilogy. Flix notes that Linklater's Detour Films is working with Greece-based Faliro House to produce the sequel, which helps explain the location of the shoot. (Before Sunrise was set in Vienna; Before Sunset took place in Paris.) Greece-Travel-Fun says Hawke has been in Greece all month and started shooting Midnight on August 15. Blogger Andrew Bostock confirmed Hawke is indeed on the island shooting a Greek/American production. Bostock heard Delpy's name among the rumors, but admitted he could only speculate that this is part of the Before series. One of the commenters on Bostock's blog sighted Delpt and Hawke together at a supermarket in Kardamily. 

The puzzle pieces fit together well, and Linklater and Hawke have shown a penchant for shooting on the down-low with their semi-secret Twelve-Year Project.  If this is indeed Before Midnight (or whatever it will be called), we should learn more details in an official capacity soon enough.

THANKS TO COLLIDER.COM FOR THIS INFO.

BEFORE SUNSET sequel

From the mouth of Ethan Hawke..........

"All of three of us [Hawke, Delpy, and director Richard Linklater] have been having similar feelings that we’re ready to revisit those characters. 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’re really started thinking that would be a good thing to do. We’re going to try write it this year.”

Excited......

Retro Sunday

So as promised, a little more on Ethan Hawke today! I guess it was really DEAD POETS SOCIETY where I really sat up and took notice of little ethan. This is one of my fave films. It is Robin Williams in one of the 2 films where he is truly brilliant. (the other of course being GOOD WILL HUNTING) It is beautiful and sad and inspiring and it made me cry for about 1/2 in the cinema after it had finished. (never got asked out on a date with that boy again!!!)

Anyway, back to ethan! Does anyone remember the movie DAD with Ted Danson and Ethan hawke playing his son, well i bawled in that one also, but i guess the next movie starring Ethan that made an impact was REALITY BITES. I loved this film at the time. It was so 'cool' with Winona and Ethan and Ben Stiller and Jeneane Garafolo, it doesn't necessarily hold up for me now, and especially the character that Ethan plays, Troy. I kind of had in my mind that he was kind of this cool guy cruising around, but he was just some lowlife slacker really!


But then Ethan turned up in BEFORE SUNRISE, and i fell in love!!! Well, not just with him, but the whole concept. Having been completely sucked in by the travelling bug at the time this film came out(1995) I was so romantically involved with the concept that you could meet someone on a train and spend the night and fall in love......beautiful julie Delpy and gorgeous Ethan hawke! Oh how I loved this film!


And then, these wonderful people gave me BEFORE SUNSET. A sequel of sorts. After leaving each other 9 years ago, they have a chance meeting in Paris and spend the afternoon wondering what might have been......



They haven't dismissed a third, I guess a BEFORE DUSK or BEFORE MIDNIGHT, but if it happens, it's not going to be in the near future.

There is one other that comes to mind, GATTACA. the film where he met Uma. Don't dismiss this film as some futuristic sci-fi, this is a great film and Jude Law is at his prettiest!

So thinking back, it's not Ethan i love, but his films! Don't get me wrong, he;s cute, i've always thought so, and he just so happened to appear in a couple of ripper films!