“The Inbetweeners” — the hit Brit teen comedy series from the late 2000s that spawned two successful spin-off films — is officially back.
A reunion movie is now in the works at Netflix, Variety has confirmed, with the original lead cast of Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison and James Buckley understood to be attached, although final deals are yet to be finalized.
The news comes less than a year after rights holders Banijay U.K. revealed that it had struck a deal with “The Inbetweeners” creators Iain Morris and Damon Beesley and their Fudge Park Productions that, at the time, they said “paves the way for the return of the hit comedy title.” But it was then unknown in what shape or form — and on what platform — that return would look like.
Netflix, it seems, has fallen for the show’s famed foul-mouthed library of hilariously puerile quotes.
Originally broadcast on E4 in the U.K. between 2008 and 2010, “The Inbetweeners” follows the misadventures of suburban teenager Will MacKenzie (Bird) and his friends Simon Cooper (Thomas), Neil Sutherland (Harrison) and Jay Cartwright (Buckley) at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive as they navigated school life, friendship, male bonding, lad culture and failed sexual encounters. It was originally conceived as a more realistic counterpoint to fellow hit Brit teen show “Skins,” showcasing an adolescence that is awkward and — as Morris suggested at the time — mostly “crap.”
After three seasons, two hit movies followed, released in 2011 and 2014 respectively. The first set a record for the biggest opening weekend for a U.K. comedy at the time of its release with the sequel also breaking box office records.
“Incredibly exciting to be plotting more adventures for our four favourite friends (ooh friends),” Morris and Beesley said after the news that “The Inbetweeners” would return in 2025.
Netflix declined to comment.
