After 1995’s Before Sunrise and 2004’s Sunset, it’s now time to catch up with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as Jesse and Celine in Before Midnight, which should hit UK cinemas later this year. Now ThePlaylist has a quartet of new images, showing the duo together again after nine years.

The images have arrived just as the movie is about to debut at Sundance, with many expecting a battle between distributors to erupt to be the one to release it, due to the cult hit value of the first two movies and therefore its in-built audience.

Not much is known about the plot, but it was shot in Greece last summer and sees Jesse and Celine once more using part of a day reignite their relationship.

Are we going to get a new Before Sunrise sequel every nine years? That seems to be the pattern, as after Ethan Hawke hinted at another movie last year and various rumours have popped up since, it’s now been revealed that not only is a third film coming, but it’s already finished shooting and will be called Before Midnight.

Hawke and Delpy are back as Jesse and Celine, this time taking in Greece (after Vienna and Paris in the first two movies). There’s no news on plot specifics, although presumably it will be another fairly brief encounter with the duo.

In a joint statement Hawke, Delpy and director Richard Linklater say, “It’s great to be back together again, this time in beautiful Greece to revisit the lives of Celine and Jesse nine years after Jesse was about to miss his flight.”

The plan is to get it in cinemas next year so that it was nine years between Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, and another nine until Before Midnight. (Source: Variety)