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It’s official: Jennifer Love Hewitt returns to its horror roots.
“It’s never too late to come back,” Hewitt he wrote via Instagram December 2024, confirming that she will reprise her role as Julie James in the upcoming reboot of the 1997 film. I know what you did last summer.
“Julie James is coming back,” Hewitt continued. “I know what you’ll be doing next summer!”
In May 2024, Sony Pictures announced the upcoming The reboot of the franchise was officially on. The direction of the horror film has been set Jennifer Kateen Robinsonwho wrote the screenplay together with the writer Sam Lansky.
Hewitt’s official involvement in the long-awaited reboot only added to fan excitement for the film, which reportedly began shooting in November 2024 and is slated to hit theaters in the summer of 2025.
Freddie Prinze Jr, Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Love Hewitt in the 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer. Cover Images
“Listen, I loved doing those movies,” Hewitt exclusively said Us Weekly May 2024. “There’s nothing more fun than making a horror movie.” That’s the best. Julie James is great. I think there’s unfinished business there, so I’d be happy to do it.”
For horror fans among U.S who already know what they’re doing next summer, here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming one I know what you did last summer reboot:
In May 2024, Sony announced an upcoming reboot with a July 18, 2025 release date.
Alongside OG cast member Hewitt Freddie Prinze Jr. was confirmed to return, doc Brandiwho starred in the 1998 sequel, said she had spoken to the film’s directors about returning.
Hewitt confirmed her involvement in the film more than six months after the reboot was announced, prompting initial speculation that she may have been left out of the project.
“It’s fun to have it there and it’s been fun to see the reaction of people to be excited about it,” Hewitt said U.S back in May 2024, adding that she and Prince Jr. were in a “holding period” at the time, waiting to hear if they would be involved.
Newcomers Chase Sui Wonders, Madeleine Klein, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyreek Withers, Jonah Hauer-King, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Austin Nichols round out the cast.
On Thanksgiving 2024. Sarah Michelle Gellar — who is married to Prince Jr. and who also starred in the 1997 original — posted a photo from the set (even though her character died in the original).
“You’d think that being in my position, I’d know what the rules are on sets when it says ‘closed sets,’ you know? the actress admitted as she appeared on Live with Kelly and Mark. “So my husband is in a movie and it was Thanksgiving so I took our kids to Australia to go over there and visit him.” And I was sitting on set and thought, ‘Oh, what a great picture,’ and then I posted it.
Like the OG movie, the reboot will center on a group of friends who are “terrorized by a stalker” who knows a secret involving “a gruesome incident from their past.”