Richard Linklater hopes to begin filming the "spiritual sequel" to Dazed And Confused this fall
Now that Richard Linklater has filed the latest of his once-every-decade progress reports on the characters played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise, he may finally be ready to turn his attention to revisiting the spirit of his other most-beloved ‘90s movie, the teen-nostalgia trip Dazed And Confused. The prolific and unpredictable filmmaker has been talking about doing a “spiritual sequel” to that movie for a long time; as recently as 2010, Linklater was lamenting that, while he had the financing in place, he still needed to “get a distributor that would do it or would give me enough to make it.” Yesterday, during a Reddit rap session, Linklater announced that he finally hopes to start shooting the movie this fall. “Assuming his plans go according to schedule,” Angie Han points out at SlashFilm, “that means the film could hit in 2014 at the earliest.”