The Kissing Booth Sequel Is Happening: Here’s Everything We Know

In 2018, Netflix blessed us all by bringing back the rom-com. (Not that it was ever truly gone for us real stans, but the genre is now cool again.) The streaming service did this by premiering a slew of instant classics, including Set It Up, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and Sierra Burgess Is a Loser. But there was one film in particular that kicked off this rom-com renaissance: The Kissing Booth, which became the most rewatched movie on all of Netflix for 2018, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

For the uninitiated, The Kissing Booth is based on Beth Reekles’s Y.A. novel of the same name. It follows Elle Evans (Joey King) and her BFF Lee (Joel Courtney) during their junior year of high school. These two do everything together—from Dance Dance Revolution to stuffing themselves with cheeseburgers—but there’s one thing they can’t bond over: Elle’s massive secret crush on Lee’s older brother, Noah (Jacob Elordi).

And for those of you who couldn’t get enough of Elle, Lee, and Noah’s story, Netflix announced on Valentine’s Day 2019 that production has started on a sequel for The Kissing Booth.

Here’s everything we know about it so far:

The release date: Mark your calendars, The Kissing Booth 2 will begin streaming on July 24, 2020.

The director: Vince Marcello, who led the first film, is back on board to direct the second.

The cast: Joey King, Joel Courtney, and Jacob Elordi are all officially back. Plus, there are some new characters in the mix—both at high school and with Noah at Harvard—whom you can see in new stills released by Netflix. 

The plot: We finally know some details about what exactly will go down in The Kissing Booth 2. Here’s the official synopsis from Netflix: “Elle Evans (Joey King) just had the most romantic summer of her life with her reformed bad-boy boyfriend Noah Flynn (Jacob Elordi). But now Noah is off to Harvard, and Elle heads back to high school for her senior year. She’ll have to juggle a long-distance relationship, getting into her dream college with her best friend Lee (Joel Courtney), and the complications brought on by a close friendship with a handsome, charismatic new classmate named Marco (Taylor Perez). When Noah grows close to a seemingly perfect college girl (Maisie Richardson-Sellers), Elle will have to decide how much she trusts him and to whom her heart truly belongs.”

We’re into it.

And now you can finally get a look at these new characters and all the drama they bring in the first full-length trailer for The Kissing Booth 2.  Watch, below: 

“If there was a sequel, my prediction would be hopefully Elle and Noah stay together,” King previously told Seventeen. “Elle goes to visit Noah at college. Of course, there has to be some crazy things that get out of hand, but I don’t know. I really hope that a lot of the original characters, if there was a sequel, like the OMG Girls and Tuppen and all those amazing characters would definitely be in it.”

As for the fate of Elle and Noah’s relationship, King said, “I think everyone, including myself, wants to see Elle and Noah stay together. I feel like Elle and Noah should stay together and get into the theme park business together and be a power couple who builds theme parks.”

Originally Appeared on Glamour