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Hawke on an unlikely third movie
I love “Before Sunset” and “Before Sunrise” – in my view, they’re simple films that not only surpass expectations, but satisfy like a hot roast dinner on a cold winter’s day.
There isn’t a lot to them – Sunrise was released in 1993, Sunset in 2005 – and yet both films (remember seeing the first one at an Army theatre for about three bucks actually – boy, did I get my money’s worth that day) could easy steamroll any of the competition that year. Who needs money when you’ve got merit, hey?
The writing, combined with the performances of stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy make the films instant candidates for the can-watch-anytime pile.
Unfortunately, there will never be a “Before Sunrise Trilogy DVD Collection”.
Hawke tells the MTV Movies Blog that a proposed second sequel is as good as dead. According to the actor, both he and director Richard Linklater think the series should be left alone now, for numerous reasons.
“If the film had been totally ignored, we probably already would have made a third one. Rick said to me the other day, ‘It’s that whole thing of people coming up to you at dinner parties and saying [they] know what happened to [Jesse and Celine]. You don’t want to deal with it.’
The second film ended with Jesse [Hawke] in Celine’s (Julie Delpy) Parisian apartment, listening to the love that got away sing along with a record. “Baby, you are gonna miss that plane,” she says. “I know,” Jesse replies.
So what happens next? Seems we’ll never find out.
“We had an idea but [it’s] not going to happen, a pretty good outline of what the next one was going to be. But we would need to be in production right now, because we wanted to pick up right where we left off. Rick wanted to do a short film that was just two weeks later. Time goes by so fast.”
Hawke, who was nominated an Oscar for the sequel’s screenplay, says you never know, it may happen, but he ain’t optimistic.
“I’m starting to think the third one may be when we’re 60,” he laughed. “[But] I’ll be shocked if we never make another one.”
What? Since when has an audience been put before box office returns?
