Ethan Hawke says 'Before Midnight' may be "the end of the story"

I think for a lot of people out there who have fallen in love with Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy's Before Sunrise/Before Sunset movies there's only one way the series should end, and that's with Jesse and Celine expressing their total commitment to one another at the top of the Eiffel Tower or something. But hey, I'm a romantic at heart, and the trio probably have something totally different in mind.

It's been amazing to see how these films have become more than just art house favorites, but something of a cultural touchstone, and perhaps the definitive romance movies of our generation. I don't think anybody expected it to go beyond Before Sunrise, but here we are eighteen years later with the third installment Before Midnight, which was filmed in secret over the summer. While many may hope the film ends on a cliffhanger like the last film, so that we may get another sequel nine years from now, Ethan Hawke seems to have a pretty good idea of where things are headed....

Hawke: [Before Midnight’s] really a continuation. For me, we just filmed it a couple days ago and I’m still kind of high from the experience. The hardest thing will certainly be… that the first two have a real following. People care about these characters and we really feel an obligation not to let people down about it. But at the same time, there’s no way we’re going to make everybody happy so we just had to try to go about with the same approach and same attitude. I love this movie. And I feel like in a strange way we may have come to the end of the story.

Ok, so he might've left the door open a little bit there, and when pressed on it Hawke nudges it open further....


Hawke: We’ll see. We’ll see. You never know but it feels like the story’s reaching its resolution.

An open-ended answer for sure, but I'm of the belief this will be the end of the story and the definitive conclusion to Jesse and Celine's romance.. Right now there's no distribution, but that will likely change soon and we'll see it some time in 2013.Check out the full interview Hawke had with Collider to learn more. It's a good one....