Whereas plot particulars for the I Know What You Did Final Summer time legacy sequel stay underneath wraps, we’re now studying that the reboot is not going to give attention to Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt‘s characters. The 2 will reprise their roles as Ray Bronson and Julie James from the unique movie and its 1998 sequel, however based on Prinze Jr., he and Hewiitt are “not the leads of the film by any stretch of the creativeness.” Prinze Jr. just lately appeared on Scale Speak Podcast with David Miniatures, the place he mentioned how co-writer and director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) built-in Julie and Ray into the upcoming film.
“[Kaytin Robinson] simply took such excellent care of Love’s character, Julie James, and my character, Ray Bronson. They are not the leads of the film by any stretch of the creativeness,” Prinze Jr. explains in his new chat with the present.” He added: “[Kaytin Robinson] made them such a robust pushing ahead of the opposite solid. It is not like, ‘Oh, this is the Ray and Julie film that we deserve.’ That does not even make sense. That man’s lifeless. So it needs to be new era. And the way in which she form of laces us in there with them is simply fantastically completed. The script is splendidly written.”
1997’s I Know What You Did Final Summer time (primarily based on Lois Duncan’s novel of the identical identify) stars Hewitt, Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Johnny Galecki, and the late Anne Heche, and follows 4 buddies who’re terrorized by a mysterious hook-wielding determine who is aware of a couple of darkish secret between the teenagers. The slasher, directed by Jim Gillespie, grew to become a field workplace hit, however did not impress critics. Regardless of the latter, the film amassed a cult following.
The Return of Julie and Ray Might Not Be as Huge as Followers Hope
The 1998 sequel, titled I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time and directed by Danny Cannon, expanded Ray and Julie’s story, with Hewitt and Prinze Jr.’s characters returning, now engaged. The 2 didn’t return for the subsequent installment of the franchise, I am going to All the time Know What You Did Final Summer time, which obtained overwhelmingly detrimental evaluations after a straight-to-video launch. A Prime Video sequence named after the primary movie aired for one season in 2021.
The return of Prinze Jr. and Hewitt to the I Know What You Did Final Summer time franchise after greater than 20 years guarantees to be a nostalgic deal with for followers of the unique movie. We won’t wait to see the place Ray and Julie at the moment are and what transpired between them following I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time (significantly, are they nonetheless collectively?). Prinze Jr. and Hewitt are joined by a gifted solid that features Billy Campbell, Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Haur-King, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Austin Nichols, and Gabbriette, who’re all newcomers to the sequence.
The I Know What You Did Final Summer time revival, which is at the moment untitled, will land in theaters on July 18, 2025. It’s produced by Neal Moritz and launched by Sony Photos. Kaytin Robinson directs from a script written by her and Sam Lansky.
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July 18, 2025