Sony Photos’ upcoming I Know What You Did Final Summer season legacy sequel simply obtained its first main replace from screenwriter Leah McKendrick.
Talking with Collider, McKendrick opened up about scripting the fourth installment within the beloved horror franchise, revealing that she was initially not going to work on any extra “massive IP” after Paramount scrapped her Grease prequel movie, Summer season Lovin’. Nonetheless, when the decision got here in for Final Summer season, she modified her thoughts, largely as a result of the mission was arrange at Sony. “I’ve a relationship with Sony, and the producers I additionally had a relationship with,” she defined. “And I discovered it was Jen [Kaytin Robinson] that was gonna be directing it.”
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McKendrick promised followers that I Know What You Did Final Summer season is in good palms, saying, “As a result of my love is so deep for I Know What You Did Final Summer season, I’ve to guard it. I have to defend it. I am unable to let this be, like, tacky and a money seize.” She added, “When it’s like they’re rebooting one thing that you simply love so deeply out of your childhood, you’re like, ‘I understand how we will do that and never make it tacky, and it could keep true to the mythology, and we will convey again the OGs, and it may be a fruits.’ You might have all these concepts.” Whereas McKendrick would not disclose any spoilers, she revealed that “if you happen to’re an OG fan like me and also you, I feel you are gonna be pleased. I feel you are gonna get it.”
The Slasher Franchise Has Been Rebooted Earlier than
I Know What You Did Final Summer season, launched in 1997, follows 4 younger pals certain by a tragic accident who’re reunited once they discover themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac of their small seaside city. A direct sequel, titled I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season, was launched the next 12 months, which concluded the unique story. After a hiatus, the franchise was rebooted in 2006 with the direct-to-video standalone sequel, I will All the time Know What You Did Final Summer season, which featured not one of the forged from the primary two movies. A tv sequence, additionally titled I Know What You Did Final Summer season, was launched on Prime Video in 2021, serving as a contemporary tackle the unique 1973 novel by Lois Duncan as an alternative of a remake of the 1997 movie.
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Authentic Stars Reportedly Not Hooked up to Sequel But
Regardless of the preliminary report for the Final Summer season sequel stating that Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. had been in talks to reprise their roles from the primary two movies as Julie James and Ray Bronson, respectively, the actors have but to signal on for the mission. In March 2023, Prinze Jr. revealed to ComicBook.com that “Authentic Movies introduced that Love and I had been doing it, however they have not supplied me something.” Nonetheless, the actor shared that he had met with Robinson and heard the pitch for the sequel, referring to it as “a cool thought.” As for Hewitt, she advised Michael Rosenbaum on his podcast Inside You (through Bloody Disgusting) again in December that she was “100%” on board for the legacy sequel, saying, “I cherished making these films. I might do it. For positive.”
The I Know What You Did Final Summer season sequel doesn’t but have a launch date.
Supply: Collider
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I Know What You Did Final Summer season
- Director
- Jim Gillespie
- Launch Date
- October 17, 1997
- Solid
- Jennifer Love Hewitt , Sarah Michelle Gellar , Anne Heche , Ryan Phillippe , Freddie Prinze Jr. , Muse Watson
- Runtime
- 101 minutes
- Most important Style
- Thriller