I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel release date set
I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel units subsequent summer time release date, however nonetheless no official phrase on if unique solid members will return.
Sony Pictures introduced at present that the following sequel within the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise is set for a theatrical release on July 18, 2025.
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) has been tapped to direct the sequel from a screenplay she co-wrote with Sam Lansky following the preliminary script by Leah McKendrick. It’s been stated that unique solid members Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. have been in talks to reprise their roles, however nothing has been formally confirmed but. Hewitt stated earlier this yr that she’d be right down to return for the sequel however hasn’t seen a script but.
Loosely based mostly on the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan, the primary I Know What You Did Last Summer film was scripted by Scream author Kevin Williamson and directed by Jim Gillespie. It revolved round 4 younger mates (Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillippe) who’re stalked by a hook-wielding killer one yr after they supposedly killed a person in a automotive accident and lined it up. The movie was a giant success on the field workplace, spawning a theatrical sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and a direct-to-video follow-up, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. There was additionally a short-lived which streamed on Prime Video in 2021 earlier than it was cancelled.
Leah McKendrick, who penned the preliminary script, beforehand stated that the sequel offers with “beautiful people behaving badly,” similar to the unique film. “It really reckons with some big ideas about hero and villain, right and wrong, how your skeletons come back to haunt you,” she stated. “And within the age of the web and the age the place fame is such a revered idea, the creation of TikTok and social media, who’s Julie James in a world the place there aren’t any secrets and techniques anymore?“
As fellow ’90s slasher franchise Scream was in a position to orchestrate a profitable fashionable relaunch, Sony Pictures clearly hopes they’ll do the identical with this I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel. Are you down?
