Jennifer Love Hewitt and her former co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. are in talks to potentially return for a long-awaited sequel to their 1997 slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Hewitt, 43, and Prinze, 46, are being considered to return for a transitional horror film that will pair them with a mostly new cast. Deadline reported on Monday.
The news comes after Amazon tried to reboot the franchise with a series starring new actors on Prime Video, but it was canceled after just one season in 2021.
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is set to direct the horror movie.
The upcoming sequel is currently in the early stages of development, inside sources told the publication.
Back for more chills: Jennifer Love Hewitt, 43, and Freddie Prinze Jr., 46, are in talks to return for a sequel in the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise, Deadline reported Monday.
Creepy: Hewitt and Prinze starred in the original film with Sarah Michelle Gellar, who later married Prinze, and Ryan Phillippe as friends who accidentally hit a pedestrian with their car. A hook-wielding assassin stalks them for revenge; still from the original
Hewitt and Prinze starred in the original film with Sarah Michelle Gellar, who later married Prinze, and Ryan Phillippe, returning a year later for the critically panned sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, in which Brandy and Mekhi Phifer joined the main cast.
A direct-to-video sequel was also released in 2006 without any of the original cast members.
The new movie looks to bring back some of the creative team from the original, as producer Neal H. Moritz is in talks to return.
Leah McKendrick has also been hired to write the script for the film.
Sony Pictures did not comment on the original story.
The original film, which turned Lois Duncan’s 1973 mystery thriller into a slasher horror, starred Hewitt, Prinze, Gellar and Phillippe as a group of friends who hit a pedestrian with their car and then try to get rid of it. from her body.
But just when they think they’ve escaped responsibility, a hook-wielding assassin begins stalking the group.
The film was a success, grossing over $125 million against a modest budget of $17 million.
The Boss: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is set to direct the horror movie. She previously directed Netflix’s Do Revenge and contributed to the script for Thor: Love And Thunder; seen in September 2022
Influential: The original, while not beloved by horror fans, helped launch the careers of its main quartet, who starred in popular movies geared toward teens for years to come.
Hewitt and Prinze battled a hooked killer again in the 1998 sequel, which was a similar success at the box office, though critics were even less kind to it.
The original, while not well loved by horror fans, helped launch the careers of its main quartet, who starred in popular movies geared toward teens for years to come.
Director Robinson and screenwriter McKendrick reportedly came up with an idea for the new movie that was a hit with executives when they pitched it in 2022.
It didn’t hurt that Robinson is enjoying the success of his Netflix movie Do Revenge, which stars Riverdale’s Maya Hawke and Camila Mendes.
She also has experience in Marvel films, having contributed to the script for Thor: Love And Thunder and was a consulting producer on the Disney+ series Hawkeye.
The studio was also reportedly interested in Robinson and McKendrick’s plan to pair the original stars with a new, younger cast, which is similar to the recent Scream movies.
Ideally, the movie would make the new cast popular enough to continue the franchise even if Hewitt and Prinze don’t stick around.
New and Old: The studio was also reportedly interested in Robinson and McKendrick’s plan to pair the original stars with a new, younger cast, which is similar to the recent Scream movies; seen in 2019
Passing the torch: Ideally, the movie would make the new cast popular enough to continue the franchise even if Hewitt and Prinze don’t stick around; seen in 2016