Freddie Prinze Jr. has lastly, officially signed on to reprise his I Know What You Did Last Summer (and I Still Know) function in the new sequel

This affirmation has been a very long time coming, however it’s lastly right here: Deadline stories that Freddie Prinze Jr. has lastly, officially signed on to reprise the function of Ray Bronson, the character he beforehand performed in the slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it HERE) and the follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one HERE), in the new I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel that’s coming our method from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge). This undertaking was first introduced again in February of 2023, at which period it was stated that Prinze and I Know / I Still Know co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt (who performed heroine Julie James) have been already signed on… however that wasn’t the case. In truth, Prinze hadn’t even been contacted but at the moment, and his deal has solely simply now closed. Hewitt continues to be in negotiations to seem in the movie.

Prinze joins a forged that features Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks), Sarah Pidgeon (Tiny Beautiful Things), Tyriq Withers (Atlanta), and Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid). Robinson’s Do Revenge star Camila Mendes (Riverdale) was beforehand connected, however needed to drop out on account of scheduling points. It seems that she could have been changed by Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies Bodies Bodies).

Robinson might be directing the movie from a screenplay by Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.), which has obtained some rewrites from Robinson and journalist Sam Lansky. McKendrick instructed Collider some time again that the new sequel will reckon with “some massive concepts about hero and villain, proper and fallacious, how your skeletons come again to hang-out you. And in 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 are not any secrets and techniques anymore?“ McKendrick additionally stated that when she went in to pitch her take to Sony, the most necessary issues they wished to listen to about have been “the accident, the occasion that kicks it off, and who the killer is.“

I Know What You Did Last Summer was directed by Jim Gillespie from a screenplay by Kevin Williamson that was impressed by a Lois Duncan novel. The movie has the following synopsis: A 12 months after operating over a fisherman and dumping his physique in the water, 4 pals reconvene when Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) receives a daunting letter telling her that their crime was seen. While pursuing who he thinks is accountable for the letter, Barry (Ryan Phillippe) is run over by a person with a meat hook. The bloodletting solely will increase from there, as the killer with the hook continues to stalk Julie, Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.).

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer was directed by Danny Cannon from a screenplay by Trey Callaway. The synopsis: A 12 months after killing vengeful hit-and-run sufferer Ben Wills (Muse Watson), who gutted her pals with an iron hook, faculty scholar Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) continues to be shaken by the expertise. When her roommate, Karla (Brandy), wins a trip for 4 to the Bahamas, she plans to convey alongside her boyfriend, Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer), enticing Will (Matthew Settle) and Julie. At the resort, Julie begins receiving threatening notes and realizes Ben continues to be alive.

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