‘The Inbetweeners’ Original Lead Cast Confirmed for Netflix Reunion Movie as Production Kicks Off in U.K. — SkimNews
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- Netflix confirmed production is underway on "Inbetweeners 3," a reunion movie for the cult Brit teen comedy series, reuniting all four original leads
- Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas will reprise their roles as Will McKenzie, Jay Cartwright, Neil Sutherland and Simon Cooper
- Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, the show's creators, are returning to write and direct, with Claire Jones, Banijay's Patrick Holland and Fudge Park's Mark Lesbirel producing
- A first-look video shows the cast climbing into the iconic 1996 Fiat Cinquecento Hawaii car from season two, still missing a door and sporting the "Honk if You Want a Blowjob" sticker
- The original series aired on E4 from 2008 to 2010 and spawned two spin-off films in 2011 and 2014, the first of which set a record for biggest opening weekend by a U.K. comedy at the time
- The announcement comes less than a year after rights holder Banijay U.K. struck a deal with Morris and Beesley via Fudge Park Productions to revive the franchise
Why it matters: The reunion assembles the full original creative team — writers, directors and all four leads — for a franchise that previously broke U.K. comedy opening-weekend records in 2011, giving Netflix a nostalgia-driven IP with proven box-office pull and the signature car-and-sticker callbacks already teased in the first-look footage.
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