When news first broke that we would be getting a legacy sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer with the franchise's original stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr reprising their roles as Julie and Ray, respectively, fans wondered would it be a direct sequel to the original film, or would I Still Know be considered cannon?
Well we may finally have an answer courtesy of the rebootquel's director.
via: Bloody Disgusting
Filming is getting underway this year on director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, a sequel to the 1997 slasher movie that will reportedly feature fresh faces alongside legacy characters. But will the new movie pull a Halloween 2018 and effectively erase the events of the slasher movie’s two sequels from this particular timeline?
Rumors and reports over the weekend indicated that I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 will indeed operate only as a sequel to the ’97 movie, but Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has taken to social media this week to let us know that those rumors are very much untrue.
Kaytin Robinson tweets, “ISKWYDLS is canon.” She’s of course referring to 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, the original sequel to the 1997 slasher movie.
That movie was followed by I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer in 2006, but it’s probably safe to say the events of that movie won’t be referenced in the 2025 reboot.
Madelyn Cline (“Outer Banks”) and Camila Mendes (“Riverdale”) are in talks to lead Sony’s reboot alongside Sarah Pidgeon (“Gotham”), Tyriq Withers (“Atlanta”) and Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid). Last we heard, both Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. were also in negotiations to potentially star alongside the fresh new faces.
The franchise will return to theaters on July 18, 2025.
While I loved the original film, and there were parts of the sequel that I liked (Brandy's Karla character being the one thing I liked about the sequel), fingers crossed that Brandy will reprise her role as Karla in the upcoming film.
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