Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas will reprise their roles as Will McKenzie, Jay Cartwright, Neil Sutherland and Simon Cooper as filming begins today on a new Netflix movie09:17, 07 Sep 2026Updated 10:40, 07 Sep 2026The Inbetweeners return in announcement trailer from Netflix The Inbetweeners is coming back - with Netflix announcing a third feature length movie that starts filming TODAY.‌Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas will reprise their roles as Will McKenzie, Jay Cartwright, Neil Sutherland and Simon Cooper.‌A 40 second trailer, released today, shows the foursome reuniting in a garage before they hop into Simon's yellow Fiat. As he turns the key in the lock the engine fails to which he replies: "Ah for f***s sake."‌James Buckley's character Jay then yells out 'Netflix w*****s' as the car eventually starts up and drives away, with the number 'three' seen daubed in dirt on the rear window.The Inbetweeners creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris will return to write and direct the film. The pair said: "It's been super-fun hanging out with our friends again, and we're going to work hard every week to ensure there are no problemos making this new film for humans."‌Emily Atack , who starred as Charlotte 'Big Jugs' Hinchliffe in the series, will not be appearing alongside the lads in the new film. Emily , 36, was axed from the Inbetweeners reunion five years ago following a 'past fling' with co-star James.When asked about the prospect of reprising her character, Emily told Capital FM recently: "I don't know. We'd all be quite a lot older now. What was quite funny was when we filmed the series I was only 17, I'd just left school, but the boys were well into... I think they were in their late twenties, early thirties."The last Inbetweeners movie was released in 2014. Five years later, the group got together for The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited special on Channel 4 in 2019 but the special was widely panned as an awkward, cringeworthy disaster that left fans disappointed and star Buckley publicly apologising.‌He revealed that he 'couldn’t watch' the episode, and said: “The thing that’s really difficult with it is that, in my job, I’m used to being criticised – especially with the small amount of talent that I have, I’m wide open for criticism… The worst thing is when people criticise you and you go, ‘Yeah, you’re right.’ It’s really hard to take.Fans had been expecting a brand new episode, but instead comedian Jimmy Carr led a retrospective on the show with interview from the cast.Buckley said: "It became a thing that wasn’t a celebration of this good thing I did in my life, it was me being taken the piss out of for hours on end,” he said. “I didn’t have the personality or the intelligence to cope with it, especially when you’re up against someone like Jimmy Carr, who’s super quick and super funny. So I come across as a complete moron through the whole thing and also there was a bit where I got stuck."‌The coming-of-age sitcom was originally broadcast on Channel 4 between 2008 and 2010. It followed the misadventures of suburban teenager Will McKenzie and his friends Simon Cooper, Neil Sutherland and Jay Cartwright at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive as they navigated school life, friendship and failed sexual encounters.Over three series it set new ratings records for the channel and won multiple awards. Two hugely successful Film4-backed movies followed, released in 2011 and 2014 respectively. The first went straight in at No.1 in the box office and set a record for the biggest opening weekend for a UK comedy at the time of its release with the sequel also breaking box office records.Article continues belowThe first film grossed £65.1 million and the second earned £46.6 million.