Freddie Prinze Jr. confirms that he’s in talks to return for the new I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel and desires to shut the deal

Twenty-seven years after the launch of the the slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it HERE) and twenty-six years after the follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one HERE), Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. is perhaps reprising the roles of Julie James and Ray Bronson in a brand new sequel, which is set for a July 18, 2025 launch date. When this venture was first introduced, Hewitt and Prinze had been talked about in the announcement like their involvement was a certain factor – however we’ve since came upon that wasn’t the case, as they didn’t even begin contract negotiations till lengthy after that. Hewitt confirmed a few months in the past that she was in talks to come again for the new movie, and now Prinze has lastly confirmed that he is as effectively, telling Us Weekly that he is “motivated” to shut the deal.

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) is hooked up to direct the movie from a screenplay by Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.), and McKendrick instructed Collider some time again that the new sequel will reckon with “some massive concepts about hero and villain, proper and incorrect, 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 is 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 needed to hear about had 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 working over a fisherman and dumping his physique in the water, 4 mates reconvene when Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) receives a daunting letter telling her that their crime was seen. While pursuing who he thinks is answerable 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 mates with an iron hook, school pupil Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is nonetheless shaken by the expertise. When her roommate, Karla (Brandy), wins a trip for 4 to the Bahamas, she plans to carry alongside her boyfriend, Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer), engaging Will (Matthew Settle) and Julie. At the resort, Julie begins receiving threatening notes and realizes Ben is nonetheless alive.

Prinze instructed Us Weekly, “Nothing’s a lock till there’s ink on paper, till the contract’s signed, however I’m positively speaking to them. And if we will make the whole lot work — and I do know they wanna make the whole lot work, I do know I wanna make the whole lot work — then we’ll attempt to make it work. But we gotta make sure that everybody’s schedules match. Everybody has to be proud of the script. I do know Jen Robinson, the director, and I like Jen Robinson very a lot as a director and as an individual. I believe individuals like her are the way forward for this enterprise. So there’s a whole lot of good issues that make me need to do the film. I’m motivated, I do know they’re motivated. I do know either side are attempting to make it work. And hopefully we do.“

While we anticipate Hewitt and Prinze to shut their offers, we all know that Camila Mendes (Riverdale), Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks), Sarah Pidgeon (Tiny Beautiful Things), Tyriq Withers (Atlanta), and Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid) have signed on to star in the movie.

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