Netflix has put an end to a year of rumours. The streamer confirmed on Monday that a new Inbetweeners film is officially happening, and that cameras have already started rolling in the UK.

The original four are back. Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas are reprising Will, Jay, Neil and Simon, the Rudge Park Comprehensive misfits who made failed pulling attempts a genre unto themselves. Fifteen years is a long gap for any cast to reassemble, and the streamer marked the occasion with a first-look clip rather than a poster or a synopsis.

That clip does the talking for now. It shows the four actors, visibly older, climbing into the same battered yellow 1996 Fiat Cinquecento Hawaii edition that Simon's parents gave him after he passed his driving test back in season one. No plot details have been shared. Whether the film catches up with these characters in their thirties, or plays it as a straight reunion, is anyone's guess right now.

Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, who created the original Channel 4 sitcom, are writing and directing this one too. In a joint statement, they 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." Claire Jones produces, alongside Banijay's Patrick Holland and Fudge Park Production's Mark Lesbirel.

The two outlets covering this differ slightly on timing. Deadline reported that talk of a deal between Banijay UK and Fudge Park Productions began circulating last October, while The Hollywood Reporter places that agreement at "last year" without a specific month. Either way, this has been building for a while, and Banijay UK's Patrick Holland had already said the team was plotting more adventures for the gang.

For anyone who came up on pirated DVDs of the show, the numbers here matter. The Inbetweeners ran on Channel 4 between 2008 and 2010 and set ratings records for the broadcaster. The two Film4-backed films that followed, in 2011 and 2014, both broke UK box office records for comedies, with the first one opening at No. 1.

There's no release date yet, and Netflix hasn't said whether this lands as a straight theatrical release, a UK cinema run followed by streaming, or a straight-to-platform drop. Given the streamer's involvement from the ground up this time, expect it to end up on Netflix regardless of where it opens first.

What's clear is that the studio thinks the coming-of-age formula still travels. Whether four men well past their Rudge Park years can recapture what made the originals work is the only question that matters now, and one the production isn't answering yet.