The ‘After’ franchise was a success in many countries around the world, including Spain, where ‘pelicula after almas perdidas‘ came to snatch number 1 at the box office from ‘Tenet’. Now it’s time to check out the trailer for ‘After 3’, the third sequel that promises to heat up the relationship between Tessa and Hardin.
Tessa’s decision
The story of ‘ver after almas perdidas‘ revolves around Tessa’s decision that causes everything to change completely, uncovers her family’s secrets and puts her relationship with Hardin in trouble. He knows very well that he loves her, but love may not be enough to save their relationship.
Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes-Tiffin reprise as Tessa and Hardin in a film where we’ll also see Oscar winners Mira Sorvino, Arielle Kebbel, Louise Lombard or Stephen Moyer, whom many of you will remember for giving life to Bill in ‘True Blood. ‘ .
For its part, staging is in charge of Castille Landon, who will also be responsible for directing the fourth installment of the saga. For this, on both occasions with the collaboration of screenwriter Sharon Soboil adapted the original novel by Anna Todd .
The exact release date of ‘ver after‘ is still unknown, but distributor Diamond Films has determined that we will see it in nearby theaters in the same 2021.
‘After 3’: it’s a box office-winning teen drama
While millennials continue to hone their brains to understand ‘Tenet’, assuming that it is one of the blockbusters of the year (and beware), Generation Z is flocking to theaters to watch ‘After 3’, the latest film. Roger Kumble and the second part of the best-selling literary saga written by Anna Todd.
Another fan phenomenon laughing at critics
But how could a film full of teen clichés fill theaters in the midst of a pandemic, even surpassing Christopher Nolan’s latest film in the week of release? Because, contrary to what many people believe, teenagers read . They may not read what we want them to read, but they do. And they are interested in watching movies based on their favorite books.
‘after 3 almas perdidas en español‘ is the second volume of the five volumes that make up ‘After’, and its reception at the box office is very similar to the first part, released in 2019. It has only a modest 5.4 on IMDb.. Note that the second one exceeds , for now, only a few tenths. If despite the negative reviews it achieves good box office results, it seems clear that we will have ‘After’ for a while.
The story is simple: in the first installment, a boy meets a girl, they fall in love, she betrays him and thus, in short, it ends badly. The sequel takes place a month after the end of ‘After’ and picks up on the story of Tessa (Josephine Langford) and Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Voldemort’s own real-life nephew, also giving life to Harry Potter’s foes in his teenage version).
Here, he’s still tormenting, drinking and tattooing… come on, the stuff you used to do in your 20s. And he has found an unpaid job at a publisher, which is also what you would normally do at 20.
Hardin had been waiting weeks for a call from Tessa that never seemed to come… until it came and it wasn’t what he expected. Here begins a series of meetings and strife in luxury hotels, offices, extraordinary attics… and it’s time, if you’re over 20 years old (ahem), it all stops being the mundane thing you were doing at that age.
‘After 3’ treats the teen love story as if it were adult love and, although if its premiere left you older than its protagonist, you may not believe it in any way, perhaps therein lies the secret to its success. Or at least the feeling I have in the cinema when, in the hottest scenes, a teen’s laughter is heard and the phone screen is seen trying to shoot a film without being caught.
‘After 3’, using the formula and fidelity
See the bad boy say lines like “I’m better because of you” or swear words to compliment his old-fashioned handsome (?) speech, and at the same time hear a girl in the back row say “oh, auntie, that’s super cute “, takes me back to the late ’90s, when I was the age (and turkey) of ‘After’ audiences now, and they just released ‘Titanic’.
But that’s not the only thing in the film that makes me feel older: one of the protagonists, who for the future part looks like a he will be the third in the triangle, is Dylan Sprouse, the son of ‘Un great papa’ (‘Big Daddy’, 1999) already playing the role of a fully functioning and hardworking adult.
Maybe ‘cuevana after almas perdidas‘ is nothing more than a little romantic film full of topics, but it’s a faithful adaptation of the book that, without a doubt, paved the way for a new story to start. This will be ‘After 3’, the third installment of Todd’s work which, along with the fourth (‘After: infinite love’), is already in production, as the protagonists themselves announced this week.
