The Kissing Booth 4 still hasn't been confirmed by Netflix and since it's been more than 18 months since the threequel was released, we have a feeling that when they said it was the final Kissing Booth movie, they meant it.
There was always the hope that the story might continue for Elle and Noah, especially since the trilogy was popular on Netflix. However, it appears that, for now at least, all you're going to be getting is three movies.
Of course, this doesn't mean that the series can't continue in the future given that The Kissing Booth 3 had an ambiguous ending that you could see develop into a fourth movie for Elle and Noah.
The third movie saw Elle (Joey King) decide what she wanted to do with her future and in an unexpected move, she decided to not go to Harvard with Noah (Jacob Elordi) or Berkeley with Lee (Joel Courtney). Instead, she chose her own path and went to study video game design at USC.
It ended with an epilogue set six years later when Elle and Noah reunite for the first time since they broke up before college. As the movie ends, there are flickers of their old romance as they go on a motorcycle ride.
King admitted to Variety that those final moments are "so up for interpretation" and she has her own, but is equally excited for fans to "have a really good time guessing". A fourth movie could provide a definitive answer by following the next phase of their story.
Equally, it could focus on a major event in their lives: Lee and Rachel's (Meganne Young) wedding. Despite breaking up during the movie, the epilogue revealed they got back together after going to separate colleges and are now engaged. Awww.
Although, given Netflix hasn't confirmed The Kissing Booth 4 or some other form of continuation for the series, such as a TV show like To All the Boys has, we shouldn't get too far ahead of ourselves.
Even the cast has been talking as though this really is the end for the series with King talking as though this is the final time she's playing Elle.
"It's very emotional to say goodbye to a character you've been playing for this many years, and also playing this character through such important moments in my life," King told The Nerds of Colour.
We've had similar messages from King's castmates, with Elordi telling Vanity Fair in November 2020 that The Kissing Booth 3 "is really the last kiss" – although he has since had an idea for a fourth movie that would take place way in the future.
"I think I'd like to see them all in a nursing home together. That'd be cool, that'd be quite interesting. Maybe it's like the film is a series of monologues of them recounting everything that happened from 20 to 92," he told Entertainment Tonight.
As fun as that sounds, perhaps the biggest indication that this really is the end comes from author Beth Reekles, who wrote the series that the movies are based on. Reekles has called the third movie and book the "final chapter" in the story.
"When I finished the edits on The Kissing Booth 3: One Last Time, and when I watched the third movie for the first time a couple of weeks ago, I sobbed my heart out. I felt like I was grieving – and I was," she wrote on her site.
"This is all ten years in the making, ten years of Elle and Lee and Noah, and now… Now, it’s all come to an end... It's the end of an era."
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That all sounds pretty definitive to us for the time being, we're afraid to say. To be honest, even if they wanted to do another movie, the leading stars are all pretty busy right now as the series made stars of the leading trio
Jacob Elordi has a key role in Euphoria for one, and Joey King has her own mega Netflix deal to produce a number of movies through her production company All The King's Horses, including Uglies.
It's hard to imagine where any of the stars could fit in another Kissing Booth movie for the foreseeable future. Unlike To All the Boys, it's also hard to see another minor character that could spin off into their own movie or TV show as an extension of the series.
Of course, given how popular the series is, you can never say never and maybe in a few years' time, we'll get to see Elle, Noah and Lee again at the next stage of their life. But, for now, make the most of The Kissing Booth trilogy.
The Kissing Booth series is out on Netflix.
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