Two stars from the unique are in talks to return.
“I Know What You Did Final Summer time” is the newest horror flick to get the requel or legacy sequel remedy, following within the footsteps of “Scream,” “Halloween” and the upcoming “Exorcist” trilogy.
In response to Deadline, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson will will helm the reboot for Sony Footage, with each Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. in talks to reprise their roles as Julie James and Ray Bronson. Robinson directed the Netflix movie “Do Revenge,” which included an look from fellow IKWYDLS star and Prinze Jr.’s spouse, Sarah Michelle Gellar.
The unique 1997 movie revolved round 4 buddies — Hewitt, Prinze Jr., Gellar and Ryan Phillippe — who’re hunted down by a killer fisherman one 12 months after hitting him with their automotive and leaving him for useless. SPOILER ALERT: Of the 4 essential characters, solely Julie and Ray survive.
The 2 additionally appeared in “I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time” in 1998, alongside Brandy Norwood and Mehki Pfieffer, whereas not one of the unique solid returned for the 2006 movie “I am going to All the time Know What You Did Final Summer time.”
Per Deadline, the studio is trying on the movie as a “passing of the torch” challenge, which means it can doubtless be stuffed with new, youthful faces, whereas the OGs play a extra supporting position. Whereas Robinson is within the director’s chair, Leah McKendrick has been tapped to write down the script, after each pitched their imaginative and prescient to Sony.
The requel comes after Amazon’s Prime Video tried rebooting the franchise as a TV sequence in 2021, nevertheless it was canceled after one season.
TooFab caught up with the director of the unique film, Jim Gillespie, final 12 months for the movie’s twenty fifth anniversary. Take a look at the interview beneath to see what he informed us about filming the notorious chase scene with Gellar!
