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Jennifer Love Hewitt in “I Know What You Did Last Summer” 1997.
Cover imagesIt’s official: Jennifer Love Hewitt returns to its horror roots.
“It’s never too late to come back,” Hewitt he wrote via Instagram in December 2024 and confirmed that she will reprise her role as Julie James in the upcoming reboot of the 1997 film I know what you did last summer.
“Julie James is coming back,” Hewitt continued. “I know what you’ll be doing next summer!”
In May 2024, Sony Pictures announced the upcoming The reboot of the franchise has officially launched. Horror is to be directed Jennifer Kaytin Robinsonwho wrote the script with the writer Sam Lansky.
what are you waiting for It’s time to find out what the cast of I Know What You Did Last Summer has been up to since it burst onto screens in 1997, continuing the teen slasher trend that Scream started the year before. Directed by Jim Gillespie and written by Kevin Williamson, who also wrote (…)
Hewitt’s official involvement in the much-anticipated reboot has only added to fan excitement for the film, which reportedly began filming in November 2024 and is slated to hit theaters in the summer of 2025.
Freddie Prinze Jr, Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Love Hewitt in “I Know What You Did Last Summer” 1997.
Cover images“Listen, I loved those movies,” Hewitt exclusively said My Weekly in May 2024. “There’s nothing more fun than making a horror movie. It’s the best. Julie James is amazing. I think there’s unfinished business, so I’d like to do that.”
For the horror fans in between Our who already know what they’ll be doing next summer, here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming one I know what you did last summer reboot:
When does I Know What You Did Last Summer premiere?
In May 2024, Sony announced an upcoming reboot with a July 18, 2025 release date.
Who’s Starring in the ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Reboot?
Aside from Hewitt, the OG cast member Freddie Prinze Jr. is asserted to return while Brandywho starred in the 1998 sequel, said she had spoken to film bosses about returning.
Hewitt confirmed her involvement in the film more than six months after the reboot was announced, prompting initial speculation that she may have been left out of the project.
Reboots and revivals may seem like a recent phenomenon, but they’ve been a Hollywood tradition since the industry’s early days. The practice isn’t just about remaking the same movie over and over again—it also includes classic movies being turned into a TV series. Casablanca, for example the 1943 Oscar winner for best film, (…)
“It’s fun to have it out there, and it’s been fun to see people’s reactions that they would be excited about it,” Hewitt said. Our in May 2024, adding that both she and Prinze Jr. they were in a “holding period” at the time, waiting to hear if they would be involved.
Newbies Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Hauer-King, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Austin Nichols round out the cast.
Has ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Started Filming?
On Thanksgiving 2024, Sarah Michelle Gellar — who is married to Prinze Jr. and who also starred in the 1997 original — posted a photo from the set (though her character died in the original).
“You’d think in my place I’d know what the rules are for sets when they say ‘closed sets,’ you know?” the actress admitted when she appeared on Living with Kelly and Mark. “So my husband is in the movie and it was Thanksgiving, so I took our kids to Australia to visit him.” And I was sitting on set and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a great picture,’ and then I posted it.
What is the premise of the I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot?
Like the OG movie, the reboot will center around a group of friends who are “terrorized by a stalker” who knows a secret regarding a “terrifying incident from their past.”
