Jennifer Love Hewitt, the ’90s icon recognized for her roles within the I Know What You Did Final Summer season motion pictures, will reprise her most necessary character within the upcoming sequel to the horror franchise. Hewitt has been principally absent from the movie trade, although she has appeared in TV exhibits like 9-1-1. Nevertheless, her position as Julie James nonetheless stays her most necessary one to this point, and Hewitt has addressed her reprisal as probably the most iconic ultimate ladies of the ’90s.
Hewitt spoke to Additional TV about taking part in Julie James 27 years after she got here up with the character for the movie written by Scream‘s Kevin Williamson. The brand new I Know What You Did Final Summer season was the results of a artistic overhaul. Newcomers embrace director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and an entire new forged. Fortunately, the writers discovered a method to carry again Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. to play their characters once more. The Ghost Whisperer actor mentioned the next about returning to the franchise that modified her profession when she was in her teenagers:
“It is actually surreal. It is a ‘pinch me’ second, it is a gratitude-filled second… I feel the nervousness is totally different this time. Being completely trustworthy, I feel, on one hand, I really feel this actual sense of gratitude and awesomeness to haven’t been forgotten and to matter nonetheless within the franchise. Alternatively, being a 46-year-old lady who’s ageing in Hollywood and stepping again into a task that you just did whenever you had been 18, it comes with nervousness.”
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TV and movie star Jennifer Love Hewitt dominated Hollywood within the ‘90s and 2000s, memorably starring within the slasher I Know What You Did Final Summer season.
The actor additionally in contrast each variations of Julie, as a few years have handed, and the character is now a survivor going through once more what was as soon as her worst nightmare. In 1997, the concern was actual for Hewitt, given how younger she was being the lead in a serious horror movie. The brand new model of Julie is “totally different”:
“I feel you will see shades of that lady as a result of I need these to be in there. She’s in her 40s. She’s carried this a very long time. I feel she’s discovered how you can deal [with it]. She’s a professor, in form of the thoughts and trauma and PTSD subject. I feel she’s discovered a method to put herself ready in her life that she will be able to deal daily with what occurred to her in her teenagers. She’s just a little edgier. She’s humorous. She’s humorous on this film, which I actually admire.”
Will the Premise of Slasher Traditional ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer season’ Work With Trendy Audiences?
I Know What You Did Final Summer season premieres solely in theaters on July 18, 2025. When you would suppose it is a typo, it is really not. The upcoming sequel has the identical title because the 1997 unique, in the identical vein as 2022’s Scream, which additionally repeated the title of its most necessary predecessor.
Nevertheless, the enchantment of Scream, and 2018’s retconning sequel Halloween (which additionally repeated the title), lies in how its plot could be tailored and “resumed” for contemporary audiences with out merely executing the premise once more. The beforehand talked about titles labored with at present’s viewers due to good scripts that capitalized on the nostalgic worth of the horror franchises and sat on the shoulders of compelling and multilayered characters.
I Know What You Did Final Summer season faces a serious problem. The unique story wasn’t precisely primarily based on a profound arc. Sure, the premise was nice, however the remainder of the plot lacked the punch of a well-developed narrative. Judging by the trailer, audiences ought to already know what to anticipate, and whereas it is going to certainly carry out nicely, it ought to purpose for one thing extra than simply being a nostalgia-based money seize. Completed proper, the film might comply with the likes of Last Vacation spot in delivering a worthy franchise return.
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I Know What You Did Final Summer season
- Launch Date
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July 18, 2025
- Runtime
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100 minutes
- Director
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Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
- Writers
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Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Sam Lansky
- Producers
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Neal H. Moritz
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Madelyn Cline
Danica Richards
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Chase Sui Wonders
Ava Brucks
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Jonah Hauer-King
Milo Griffin
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Tyriq Withers
Teddy Spencer
