The Inbetweeners has been a huge success, earning BAFTAs, British Comedy Awards, TV Quick & TV Choice Awards, and an NME Award, amongst others, as well as gaining a loyal following on Channel 4 and E4. Indeed it’s popular enough that it’s now getting its own movie, with Bwark productions announcing that shooting will commence in the UK and Greece next week.
Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Emily Head fromthe TV series will all transfer over to the big screen version, with the teenagers out of school and heading on holiday (which admittedly is a bit of a lazy plot device, but in this case it should be interesting to see what the lads get up to when their libidos are let loose in a drink-fuelled world away from normality).
The films plot revolves around the boys first holiday away together and crucially, without their parents. The four of them decide to go to Malia, a party town for mainly young British tourists on the Greek island of Crete. And if they felt slightly outside of mainstream teenage society in their suburban hometown then that feeling is magnified a thousand times in one of Europes hedonistic hotspots.
Ben Palmer, who helmed numerous episodes of the TV show, is directing. However if you’re worried this means we won’t be getting any more Inbetweeners on television, don’t worry, as Series 3 will kick off in September, with the film arriving sometime next year.