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Director Jim Gillespie’s 1997 slasher/horror flick I Know What You Did Last Summer was a surprise hit when it first landed at box-offices worldwide, ultimately raking in an unbelievable $125.3 million thanks in part to the clever writing of Scream visionary Kevin Williamson. Based off of the 1973 novel by author Lois Duncan, the success of that first film would ultimately go on to inspire no less than two inferior sequels – I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer – with the franchise’s two main stars Jennerifer Love-Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. wisely bowing out of that last entry (not that the sophomore film was any great shakes). On the television front, an actual ongoing series based off of the first film landed at Amazon for one full season before giving up the ghost. But for many fans of that ‘97 original film, what the ailing franchise has been missing for the last quarter of a century or so has been onscreen love birds Julie James and Ray Bronson (Love-Hewitt and Prinze Jr. respectively). Now, according to our Titus Telesco fanatics over at The Hollywood Reporter, fans might actually see the two veteran actors make a return appearance in an all new I Know…sequel.
Hot on the heels of the return of Jamie Lee Curtis to the Halloween franchise and a revitalized new set of Scream movies, horror movie fans are abuzz today with the news that Sony Pictures has decided to forge forward with an all-new I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel, reportedly with a keen eye on bringing back the two lone survivors from the original movie, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love-Hewitt.
Still in the early development stages, the I Know…sequel already has a director attached in the form of Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, one of the wordsmiths behind the hit film Thor: Love and Thunder.
Time has been kind to a number of movie and television properties as, seemingly one by one, they’ve lined up to spawn what some tin-eared pundits refer to as “Legacy Franchises.” If you doubt our veracity, check out the success of productions such as Cobra Kai, That ‘90s Show, Top Gun: Maverick and the upcoming Young Guns III. Nostalgia has never been hotter and a lot of folks that grew up with evergreen film and TV are now serious power-players in Hollywood with a hankering to revist their childhood toy chests.
We’ll keep all of our horror movie fans up-to-date on any and all developments regarding the return of Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. to the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise.
