Followers will get to say their goodbyes to Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring, as Heartstopper involves an finish on Netflix with a feature-length film. Manufacturing is now underway, and we anticipate the movie might be launched on Netflix someday in 2026.
Heartstopper is an upcoming Netflix Unique romantic drama movie, and a sequel to the Heartstopper tv sequence created by showrunner Alice Oseman. Wash Westermoreland will direct the film.
Alice Oseman shared the next concerning the movie with TUDUM:
“It’s an enormous sigh of aid! We’ve been working in direction of and hoping for this second since we wrapped manufacturing of Season 3 on the finish of 2023. There was an enormous quantity of dedication and willpower behind the scenes to get so far. I’ve seen how pissed off and anxious followers have been about whether or not we’d get to inform the tip of the story — I’ve had messages asking about it each single day since Season 3 dropped! So I’m extremely relieved that the reply is YES.”
Ian Canning, Equipment Connor, Joe Locke, Euros Lyn, Alice Oseman, Emile Sherman, and Patrick Walters are the chief producers of the movie.
What’s the manufacturing standing of the Heartstopper film?
Growth
Filming Scheduled
Filming Ongoing
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On the finish of April, Alice Oseman had an replace for followers:
“It’s already gone by way of a number of drafts, and I’m now working carefully with our director Wash Westmoreland and the manufacturing workforce to iron out some last tweaks. As we formally head into pre-production, we’ll be organizing and discussing all points of the film from costume to areas to music and extra. It’s quite a lot of enjoyable.”
However the illegal act replace may have followers extremely comfortable. We beforehand reported that Heartstopper was set to start out filming in June 2025, and the social media channels of Netflix and manufacturing firm See-Noticed Movies have confirmed that manufacturing is now underway.
The Heartstopper film is formally in manufacturing pic.twitter.com/OzpUQodC7s
— Netflix (@netflix) June 9, 2025
It’s unclear when filming is scheduled to finish, however we anticipate it’s going to conclude someday in early Fall/Autumn 2025.
Image: Equipment Connor (left), Alice Oseman (centre) and Joe Locke (proper) firstly of every manufacturing of Heartstopper – Netflix
Why a film?
Joe Locke, who performs Charlie Spring, shared his ideas on why the story will conclude with a movie as an alternative of a fourth season:
“I feel the time it could’ve taken to movie a sequence, we simply wouldn’t have been in a position to get everybody in the identical place for 5 years. Then by that point, there can be no want for it. So, we realized that the one solution to get it made this 12 months is that if we do a movie as a result of it’s much less time dedication, and nicely, we will nonetheless put in quite a lot of the identical love and care into the characters, into ending off the story.
It makes it really feel extra cinematic, extra grand, and provides it the ending it deserves, which I’m actually excited to start out capturing. And the script is nice.”
Alternatively, the information from the efficiency of the sequence could inform us a unique story.
There’s little question that the sequence is well-liked and has amassed a fiercely loyal fan base. Nevertheless, the information confirms that seasons 2 and three struggled to retain the viewership of the primary season, with a major 4.5 million swing in viewership between the primary two weeks of the primary and third seasons.
Arguably, a feature-length movie is the right send-off the sequence deserves.
Heartstopper Seasons Vs Different Sequence
What’s the plot of the Heartstopper film?
Netflix has supplied a synopsis for the movie:
“Nick and Charlie are inseparable, however with Nick getting ready to go away for college and Charlie discovering new independence in school, the fact of a long-distance relationship begins to weigh on them. Doubts take maintain, and their relationship faces its largest problem but. In the meantime, their associates are additionally navigating the ups and downs of affection and friendship, confronting the bittersweet challenges of rising up and transferring on. Can first loves actually final eternally?”
Who’re the forged members of the Heartstopper film?
Equipment Connor and Joe Locke will return to reprise their roles as Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring.
Earlier than Heartstopper, Equipment Connor was most well-known for starring within the Elton John biopic Rocketman and as Pantalaimon in HBO’s adaptation of His Darkish Supplies.
Image: Equipment Connor (left) and Joe Locke (proper)
As for Joe Locke, the actor lately starred as Billy Maximoff within the MCU sequence Agatha All Alongside.
Confirmed to be reprising their roles within the movie are:
- Yasmin Finney as Elle Argent.
- Corinna Brown as Tara Jones.
- William Gao as Tao Xu.
- Jenny Walser as Tori Spring.
- Rhea Norwood as Imogen Heaney.
- Tobie Donovan as Isaac Henderson.
- Kizzy Edgell as Darcy Olsson.
- Cormac Hyde-Corrin as Harry Greene.
When will the Heartstopper film be launched on Netflix?
Provided that filming is now underway, a 2026 launch is essentially the most lifelike.
A Valentine’s Day 2026 launch is perhaps too formidable, however we may see the movie land someday in June 2026, as a part of Delight Month.
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