Jennifer Love Hewitt; Freddie Prinze Jr.Photo: Chelsea Guglielmino/WireImage, Vincent Sandoval/Getty
I Know What You Did Last Summeris back to sink its hook into horror.
Anothersequel is in developmentfrom Sony Pictures that will see the return of two stars from the original 1997 film and its 1998 sequel:Jennifer Love HewittandFreddie Prinze Jr., according to Deadline,VarietyandThe Hollywood Reporter.
Neal H. Moritz, who co-produced the first two films — as well as the direct-to-videoI’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer(2006), which did not feature any of the original stars — is in talks to return as producer on the new sequel, the outlets report.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. inI Know What You Did Last Summer(1997).Courtesy Everett Collection
Aside from its 1998 and 2006 film sequels,I Know What You Did Last Summer— itself based on a 1973 novel of the same name —also spawned a television seriesthat ran for one season on Prime Video back in fall 2021.
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Prinze, who played Julie’s love interest Ray Bronson in the first two films, shared with his Twitter followers in January of last year that he was hoping to film another scary movie decades after he appeared inI Know What You Did Last Summer.
“I’vewanted to make another horror movieever sinceIKWYDLSwrapped,” Prinze wrote. “Never found the right one but I think this year it’s gonna happen.”
When a fan asked ifhe was considering a rebootofI Know What You Did Last Summer, the actor replied, “Noooooo. Something new.”
After another fan commented, “Oh you’re doing a movieon the last 2 years of our lives? Word,” Prinze joked, “Just what we need. To relive it!”
source: people.com
