Jennifer Love Hewitt in 1997’s “I Know What You Did Final Summer time.” Cowl Pictures
It’s official: Jennifer Love Hewitt is returning to her horror roots.
“It’s by no means too late to return,” Hewitt wrote through Instagram in December 2024, confirming that she is going to reprise her position as Julie James within the upcoming reboot of the 1997 movie I Know What You Did Final Summer time.
“Julie James is returning,” Hewitt continued. “I do know what you can be doing subsequent summer season!”
In Could 2024, Sony Footage introduced the upcoming franchise reboot was formally a go. The horror flick is ready to be directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who cowrote the screenplay with author Sam Lansky.
What are you ready for? It’s time to seek out out what the forged of I Know What You Did Final Summer time has achieved since they burst onto screens in 1997, persevering with the development of adlescent slasher movies began by Scream the 12 months earlier than. Directed by Jim Gillespie and written by Kevin Williamson, who additionally wrote […]
Hewitt’s official participation within the much-awaited reboot has solely added to followers’ pleasure over the movie, which reportedly began filming in November 2024 and is scheduled to hit theaters in the summertime of 2025.
Freddie Prinze Jr, Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Jennifer Love Hewitt in 1997’s “I Know What You Did Final Summer time.” Cowl Pictures
“Hear, I beloved doing these films,” Hewitt completely informed Us Weekly in Could 2024. “There’s nothing extra enjoyable than doing a horror film. It’s the most effective. Julie James is superior. I do suppose that there’s unfinished enterprise there, and so I’d be blissful to do it.”
For the horror followers amongst Us who already realizing what they’re doing subsequent summer season, right here’s all the pieces that you must know concerning the upcoming I Know What You Did Final Summer time reboot:
When Does ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer time’ Premiere?
In Could 2024, Sony introduced the upcoming reboot with a launch date on July 18, 2025.
Who Is Starring within the ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer time’ Reboot?
Along with Hewitt, OG forged member Freddie Prinze Jr. is confirmed to return, whereas Brandy, who starred within the 1998 sequel, has stated that she’s spoken to movie execs about coming again.
Hewitt confirmed her participation within the movie greater than six months after the reboot was introduced, fueling preliminary hypothesis that she could have been disregarded of the undertaking.
Reboots and revivals could look like a latest phenomenon, however they’ve been a Hollywood custom because the trade’s earliest days. The follow doesn’t simply lengthen to remaking the identical film repeatedly — it additionally encompasses traditional movies being was tv sequence. Casablanca, for instance, winner of the 1943 Oscar for Greatest Image, […]
“It’s enjoyable that it’s on the market and it’s been enjoyable to see individuals’s response that they might be excited for that,” Hewitt informed Us again in Could 2024, including that each her and Prinze Jr. had been in a “holding interval” on the time, ready to listen to whether or not they could be concerned.
Newcomers Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Hauer-King, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Austin Nichols spherical out the forged.
Has Filming Began on ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer time’?
On Thanksgiving 2024, Sarah Michelle Gellar — who’s married to Prinze Jr. and who additionally starred within the 1997 unique — posted a photograph from the set (though her character died within the unique).
“You’ll suppose that being in my place, I do know what guidelines are on units once they say ‘closed units,’ ya know?” the actress confessed whereas showing on Reside With Kelly and Mark. “So my husband’s starring within the film, and it was Thanksgiving so I took our children to Australia to go on the market and go to him. And I used to be sitting on set, and I used to be like, ‘Oh, what an ideal image,’ after which I posted it.”
What Is the Premise of the ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer time’ Reboot?
Just like the OG movie, the reboot will focus on a bunch of mates who’re “terrorized by a stalker” who is aware of the key involving a “ugly incident from their previous.”
