Production
When was the official announcement made for Before Midnight?
Before Midnight (film)
Linklater, Hawke, and Delpy all had suggested the possibility of a sequel to "Before Sunset". In a video interview in November 2011, Hawke said that he, Delpy and Linklater "have been talking a lot in the last six months. All three of us have been having similar feelings, that we're kind of ready to revisit those characters. There's nine years between the first two movies and, if we made the film next summer, it would be nine years again, so we started thinking that would be a good thing to do. So we're going to try and write it this year. "In June 2012, Hawke confirmed that the sequel to "Before Sunset" would be filmed in summer 2012. Soon after, Delpy denied filming would take place in 2012, stating that they were still only writing the script and that filming would not take place until "sometime in the next year, year and a half." However, in August 2012, numerous reports emerged from Messenia, Greece, that the film was in fact being shot there. When asked about the reports, this time Hawke stated that he, Delpy and Linklater were in Greece only to write the film, telling MTV News that "we're here writing a third installment to "Before Sunrise". If it works out, we'll film it, and if it doesn't, we won't. It's not really worth talking about. I'm just here developing." However, Hawke and Delpy's denial was proven to be a ruse when the completion of filming of the new movie, titled "Before Midnight", was announced on September 5, 2012. Linklater later revealed that after 10 weeks of writing and rehearsing, the film was made in 15 days for less than $3 million, and he aimed to take it to a film festival in early 2013.