The I Know What You Did Final Summer season reboot movie is formally a go — however OG stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. are nonetheless at nighttime.
“The entire thing that happened was someone mentioned that it was occurring, and Freddie and I each have been like, ‘Wait, it’s occurring?’” Hewitt, 45, solely instructed Us Weekly whereas selling season 7 of her ABC sequence, 9-1-1, earlier this month. “No person’s referred to as me but. We heard about it within the press. And so we have been like, ‘Oh, OK, properly, tell us.’ So I feel we’re in the identical boat as everybody else.”
Hewitt and Prinze Jr., 48, starred as Julie James and Ray Bronson, respectively, within the 1997 movie. They later returned for the sequel, I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season, alongside Brandy and Mekhi Phifer, which hit theaters the next 12 months.
After a failed TV reboot for Prime Video in 2021, Sony Footage introduced a brand new movie for the franchise in Might. The horror flick will probably be directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, with a screenplay she cowrote alongside Sam Lansky after an preliminary script from Leah McKen. The movie is ready to launch in summer time 2025.
Hewitt, who spoke with Us weeks earlier than the brand new movie was confirmed, mentioned that she and Prinze Jr. are in a “holding interval” as they wait to listen to about their potential involvement, however the actress famous she believes they’d each “undoubtedly come again” if the story felt proper.
“Hear, I liked doing these motion pictures. There’s nothing extra enjoyable than doing a horror film. It’s the most effective. Julie James was superior,” she defined. “I do assume that there’s unfinished enterprise there, and so I’d be pleased to do it.”
Whereas each Hewitt and Prinze Jr.’s characters survive each OG movies, viewers are left with an enormous cliffhanger within the final minutes of the sequel. After a time leap, Julie and Ray get married and purchase a house. Within the remaining scene, Ray is brushing his enamel and the lavatory door is locked whereas Julie muses across the bed room. As she appears to be like within the mirror, the killer Ben (Muse Watson) seems from beneath the mattress and pulls her down with him as she screams for assist.
The open ending is partially what must be explored if Julie and Ray have been to make one other look. ”I feel it’s extra like what would the story be? How would it not all work? Are we telling the most effective story for them? Is it an ending?” Hewitt mentioned. “Is it nonetheless a continuation? What’s occurring? I feel the story could be actually necessary.”
There’s additionally the difficulty of timing. Hewitt has been a sequence common on 9-1-1 since its second season. The sequence, which bought picked up by ABC after being canceled by Fox final 12 months, was not too long ago picked up for season 8, which can include 18 episodes and certain start filming someday this summer time.
“Clearly, I’m on this present referred to as 9 -1-1, so it could be type of getting collectively [for the movie] on a hiatus or one thing like that, the place we may go and movie it,” Hewitt mentioned of her packed schedule. “However I’m undoubtedly open to it.”
Whether or not she’s part of the brand new movie or not, Hewitt is simply excited that persons are demanding one other chapter of I Know What You Did Final Summer season legacy. “It’s enjoyable that it’s on the market and it’s been enjoyable to see individuals’s response that they’d be excited for that,” she instructed Us.
9-1-1 airs on ABC Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.
