Although it was reported he and Jennifer Love Hewitt had been in talks to return to the horror franchise, Prinze Jr. says he did not know something concerning the film till after his potential involvement made headlines.
Freddie Prinze Jr.’s potential return to the “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” franchise was information to Freddie Prinze Jr.
Final month, it was reported {that a} new legacy sequel to the 1997 horror flick was within the works from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and author Leah McKendrick. Robinson lately labored with Prinze Jr.’s spouse and fellow former IKWYDLS costar Sarah Michelle Gellar on the 2022 Netflix film “Do Revenge.” Preliminary experiences additionally stated each Freddie and costar Jennifer Love Hewitt had been “in talks” to reprise their roles as Ray Bronson and Julie James, respectively.
However when TooFab caught up with Freddie to speak about his new horror film podcast That Was Fairly Scary — a present which launches with a dialogue all concerning the unique IKWYDLS — he stated he did not know something concerning the film till after his potential involvement began making headlines.
Prinze Jr. believes the manufacturing firm behind the movie “leaked” the announcement in an try to “get folks hyped about their film.”
“I’ve been supplied nothing, nothing. They only stated that to get folks excited. I have not spoken to anybody at their firm, my brokers have not obtained a suggestion from them in anyway,” he continued. “I had a dialog with the director just a few days after they introduced that, simply to be like, ‘Yo, what the hell? Why are they saying I will be in a film I am in all probability not going to be in?’ And she or he stated, ‘Let me pitch you the thought.’ So she’s spoken to me concerning the concept, however I have not stated sure, I have not obtained a suggestion.”
“I’ve no motive to mislead anybody, I’ve no pores and skin within the sport. I am solely gonna do issues that I like and work with folks that I like and there is not gonna be any wiggle room this time round,” he instructed TooFab. “I tousled the primary time round, this time I simply need to do stuff I am captivated with.”
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The unique film was a large success and spawned a sequel, “I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time,” in addition to a direct-to-video film and 2022 TV sequence with no connection to the earlier movies. Freddie stated he hasn’t learn a script for this newest try to revive the franchise, however opened up about what he wish to see in a brand new film all these years later.
“I’d need to see it undoubtedly based mostly in actuality. I do not suppose we’d like something supernatural. I would not need to see somebody come again to life,” he stated. “I do not like that, it simply makes me consider previous ’80s motion pictures like ‘Soapdish’ … that is what it’d really feel like for me if everyone got here again fantastic or Ben Willis was like, ‘I am again once more, 20 years older, I am unable to transfer that effectively, arthritis.’ Hopefully they discover an natural and simply base all the pieces in actuality.”
Gellar lately echoed a few of these sentiments, saying there isn’t any manner her character Helen Shivers could be again within the new film. “As I defined to Jennifer, I’m useless. I’m useless useless. On ice,” she instructed ET, earlier than additionally citing the “Soapdish” comparability.
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“The cool factor about ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer time’ was you had 4 folks feeling very in another way a few horrible occasion. You had anger from [Ryan Phillippe’s Barry], you had guilt from [Hewitt], you had concern from Sarah and also you had remorse from me. That was all Kevin Williamson. That is what made it particular, it was 4 folks reacting truthfully, all 4 had been relatable another way,” Freddie continued.
“I do not know in the event that they’re gonna have 4, 5, 10 youngsters, no youngsters, I do not know what they’re gonna do. However hopefully it stays rooted in actuality,” he added. “I feel that is the easiest way to do horror, or you must absolutely decide to the Freddy Krueger of all of it. Which is superior, they’re my favourite motion pictures, however they’re ridiculous. So you must lean all the way in which into it or all the way in which out.”
With Freddie a possibly and Sarah an apparent no, Prinze Jr. added, “Perhaps they will get Ms. Norwood [aka Brandy] in there.”
“They killed [I Still Know star Mekhi Phifer] proper? They killed poor Jack Black, I am unable to imagine he killed the nicest man on the earth, Jack Black,” he added. “Solely a few us lived, Brandy, Love and me, that is it. No boys, I bought each the women!”
The primary episode of Freddie and cohost Jon Lee Brody’s That Was Fairly Scary podcast is reside for Wondery+ subscribers now and will probably be accessible to everybody else, wherever you hearken to podcasts, on March 15.
