There’s a brand new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Final Summer season (watch it HERE) and its 1998 follow-up I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season (watch that one HERE) coming our approach from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aiming for a July 18 theatrical launch. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who performed heroine Julie James within the first two movies, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in these movies, are reprising their roles – and through a dialog with Entertainment Weekly, Robinson appeared to substantiate that the ending of I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season, just like the ending of its predecessor, was only a nightmare. Julie and Ray have been not likely being attacked by the Fisherman (once more).
Robinson stated, “So the way in which that I’ve approached the franchise is that I really feel like these closing scenes within the first two films stay exterior the canon, as a result of within the first film she will get attacked via the bathe, via the glass door, and within the second film, she will get pulled underneath the mattress. So that they’re each alive and nicely, and what I’ll say is that we now have continued the custom in our movie.“
Robinson is directing the movie from a screenplay by Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.), which has acquired some rewrites from Robinson and journalist Sam Lansky. McKendrick advised Collider some time again that the brand new sequel will reckon with “some large concepts about hero and villain, proper and incorrect, how your skeletons come again to hang-out you. And within the age of the web and the age the place fame is such a revered idea, the creation of TikTok and social media, who’s Julie James in a world the place there aren’t any secrets and techniques anymore?“ McKendrick additionally stated that when she went in to pitch her take to Sony, crucial issues they needed to listen to about have been “the accident, the occasion that kicks it off, and who the killer is.“
Right here’s the brand new sequel’s synopsis: When 5 associates inadvertently trigger a lethal automotive accident, they cowl up their involvement and make a pact to maintain it a secret quite than face the implications. A 12 months later, their previous comes again to hang-out them they usually’re compelled to confront a horrifying fact: somebody is aware of what they did final summer time… and is hell-bent on revenge. As one after the other the chums are stalked by a killer, they uncover this has occurred earlier than, they usually flip to 2 survivors of the legendary Southport Bloodbath of 1997 for assist. As you may inform from the synopsis, Hewitt and Prinze usually are not the leads this time round. They’re joined within the forged by Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks), Chase Sui Wonders (Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid), Tyriq Withers (Atlanta), Sarah Pidgeon (Tiny Lovely Issues), Billy Campbell (The Rocketeer), mannequin / musician Gabbriette Bechtel (making her function movie performing debut), Austin Nichols (The Day After Tomorrow), Lola Tung (The Summer season I Turned Fairly), and Nicholas Alexander Chavez (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story).
Prinze advised Entertainment Weekly, “Catching up with Ray, you see how that has shaped him into the position he’s in now. He loves his town and not everyone else does, in his view, and he’s a little grumpier with the way the world has treated him since [the 1997 Southport Massacre]. So he has gone through a lot, and I don’t know if he’s dealt with it the way the modern man deals with stuff, you know what I mean? He’s a guy from the ’90s like myself, so I think he’s probably bottled up a lot more of those feelings we’ve talked about.” He went on to disclose, “Ray has a bar that he runs. It’s sort of the place he’s at in his life now. He’s not the lively fisherman that he thought he was going to be. He’s managing and proudly owning a spot of his personal and attempting to maintain it afloat.“
Robinson added, “I got here to this initially eager to dig into: if this factor had occurred to you, how would that form you, and what particular person do you grow to be after it? So actually wanting to have a look at each Ray and Julie and say, ‘Okay, how did this thing shape both of them and where would they be today?’ … With out giving an excessive amount of away, they each moved via the trauma and have become totally realized adults, and I feel had very alternative ways of coping with what occurred to them. So that’s positively the primary supply of battle between them: how do you progress via this? And now that individuals have far more instruments, do you utilize all of the instruments, or do you not? Do you push it down and repress it and simply maintain shifting? (The brand new movie is) about each Ray and Julie discovering catharsis via serving to the youthful forged on this movie. I feel they each have a variety of emotional stuff that they’ve sort of put Band-Aids on, and people Band-Aids are ripped off by our youthful forged, and this film is certainly about them. Every of them has an individual within the youthful forged that they’re related to, and it’s about them serving to all 5 of those youngsters transfer via this. And thru doing that, I feel they really are capable of finding closure and launch and are in a position to transfer ahead in a approach that they by no means would have had they not skilled this with this youthful group.“
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