After 5 is coming our way in 2023 after its surprise announcement following the release of After Ever Happy, now available to watch on Netflix in the US.
We had thought that Tessa and Hardin's story would come to an end with the fourth movie, but After Ever Happy's surprise cliffhanger ending revealed that the story has one more chapter to go.
As a Christmas treat, Afternators were gifted the first teaser for the fifth – and we assume final – After movie, showing Hardin unable to move on following his break-up with Tessa despite his newfound fame as an author.
So what else can we expect from After 5, aka After Everything? Be warned though, major spoilers are ahead for the series to date, including After Ever Happy.
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After 5 potential release date: When can we expect After Everything?
While the fifth movie has been confirmed, we don't yet have an official release date for After Everything.
The teaser did confirm that the movie would be out in 2023 and following the surprise announcement in August 2022, Hero Fiennes Tiffin did confirm that the movie had already been filmed in secret.
"We have just wrapped filming on the fifth After movie. I can't tell you too much about it just yet, but I can tell you that it will be called After Everything, and I cannot wait for you all to see it," he said in an Instagram post.
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The past three movies – After We Collided, After We Fell and After Ever Happy – were all released in September, so it's a fair shout to say that After Everything might be released in September 2023.
Given that the movie has already finishing filming though, there's every chance that Afternators could be reuniting with Tessa and Hardin sooner than that.
Whenever we hear more, we'll update this page so watch this space.
After 5 trailer: Watch the After Everything trailer here!
The first teaser for After Everything was released on December 23, but the brief footage was focused on Hardin without Tessa in sight.
We see Hardin talking to his parents and struggling to move on from Tessa as he sets about writing his next book. "I keep on trying to write and every time I do, everything just ends up going back to Tessa," he admits.
His parents' advice is to get some distance to make peace with their relationship being over, so we see Hardin book a flight to Lisbon. What's the betting he runs right into Tessa there?
Watch the teaser below if you haven't seen it yet:
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After 5 plot: How does After Ever Happy ending set up After Everything?
We're about to go into some spoilers for After Ever Happy, so look away now if you haven't seen the movie yet.
Unlike the book it's based on (which ends with a flash-forward where Tessa and Hardin have two children), the fourth movie ends on a bleaker note as Tessa and Hardin aren't together.
Their final break-up comes when Tessa finds the book that Hardin has been writing, called After, about their relationship. She doesn't want her life published for everyone to read, but he tells her it's too late as it's being released.
Tessa says it's finally over for them, but she still can't stop herself dropping into a reading of Hardin's book. She leaves after she sees Hardin looking at another woman. He spots Tessa just as she's leaving, but continues with his reading and the last shot we see is of Tessa walking off into the rain.
Has Hardin moved on with somebody else? A fan theory argues that maybe this random woman is just pretending to be Tessa, a marketing ploy from Hardin if you will.
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The fifth movie will pick up from this open ending and we imagine it'll see Tessa and Hardin get back together, building up to the finale of the book where they live happily ever after.
In the book, there are multiple time jumps to tell the end of Tessa and Hardin's story, so there's plenty of scope for the fifth movie to fill in the gaps and give us plenty more drama on its way to a happy ending.
Before the surprise announcement of the fifth movie, we knew that director Castille Landon was working on two more After movies. One was set to be based on the Hardin-focused prequel Before and the other was to be centred on their children.
"Emery, Auden, and Addy are quite beloved by the fans. We've all gotten a lot of inquiries about what happens with the kids," Landon told Teen Vogue.
"It's really amazing actually to see how interested the fanbase is in those characters, even though they are really only superficially introduced in the books. People have latched onto them because of their love for Hardin and Tessa."
We don't yet know if either of those movies are still happening as a result of the unexpected extra After movie.
It's possible that the fifth After movie replaced one of those planned movies, but there's been no confirmation either way yet.
After 5 cast: Who's coming back for After Everything?
Beyond the title confirmation, we haven't had an official cast announcement for After Everything, but we can make two concrete guesses.
Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin will be back as Tessa Young and Hardin Scott, respectively, as it wouldn't be an After movie without them.
The teaser confirmed that Louise Lombard and Stephen Moyer were back as Hardin's parents Trish Daniels and Christian Vance, but outside of them, we don't yet know who will definitely be bac.
We'd assume that the likes of Chance Perdomo's Landon and Kiana Madeira's Nora (who's now moved in with Landon) will be back. However, we don't know for certain that they will be.