The third installment of the Netflix romantic comedy franchise was quietly filmed alongside “Kissing Booth 2” in South Africa.
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The Kissing Booth 2, the second installment in the wildly popular Netflix franchise, is currently # 1 on the streamer viewing charts. Building on the popularity of the new movie and the 2018 original, both directed by Vince Marcello, Netflix has given the go-ahead for a third movie. But perhaps the most exciting news, as reported by Deadline, is that “The Kissing Booth 3” has already finished filming after filming quietly alongside “Kissing Booth 2” last year in South Africa. Marcello is reportedly currently in post-production for the film, which Netflix will release sometime in 2021. Netflix confirmed the news to IndieWire.
The news was revealed by star and executive producer Joey King during a live broadcast event hosted on Sunday. The third film will continue to explore the romantic ups and downs of Elle (King), her boyfriend Noah (Jacob Elordi) and her best friend Lee (Joel Courtney). “The Kissing Booth 3” will be set in the summer before Elle leaves for college. It has been accepted at Harvard and Berkeley. Torn between her boyfriend and her best friend, which one will she choose?
The “The Kissing Booth” movies are based on the Beth Reekles novels, adapted by Vince Marcello, with Jay Arnold co-writing “The Kissing Booth 2”. In the IndieWire review of the new movie, Kate Erbland writes: “While the first movie was riddled with sexist rhetoric, slutty casual embarrassment, and a” bad boy “protagonist who never knew a humiliation (or punch) that didn’t she met”. I like it, its sequel tempers the BS offensive, finding something sweeter and much more enjoyable in the process. Even for audiences not muffled by the original’s regressive attitudes, his oddly aggressive tone was never, well, romantic, a misstep that Marcello is now trying to rectify. And yet, the greatest strength of ‘The Kissing Booth 2’, an overwhelmed jumble (recording a whopping 132 minutes) of tropes and genre tricks, is not its many romances; it’s King who finally spreads his wings and his comic chops.
“The Kissing Booth 2” is the latest in Netflix’s grand foray into romantic comedies, particularly around teens, including the “All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” movie series. “The Kissing Booth 2” premiered on Netflix on July 24.
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