Following the information that she was in talks to reprise her function within the new I Know What You Did Last Summer film, Jennifer Love Hewitt has formally closed a deal to return to the franchise, asserting the information on social media. She joins her former co-star Freddie Prinze Jr together with new castmembers Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers and Jonah Haur-King.
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is directing the follow-up to the horror movie franchise, which is written by Sam Lansky and Kaytin Robinson off a draft by Leah McKendrick.
Neal Moritz is producing. Sony Pictures will launch the movie in theaters on July 18, 2025.
The unique movie follows 4 younger mates (performed by Prinze, Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe) sure by a tragic accident who’re reunited once they discover themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac of their small seaside city.
I Know What You Did Last Summer, loosely primarily based on the Lois Duncan novel of the identical title, was a success that led to the event of the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, which premiered in 1998. A direct-to-video third installment of the franchise, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006), is taken into account a stand-alone sequel because the story diverged from the primary two installments and had no unique solid reprising their roles.
Hewitt can at present be seen co-starring on the Fox present 9-1-1, created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Next, she can be seen starring, directing and govt producing the Lifetime movie The Holiday Junkie. She starred in, govt produced and directed a number of episodes of her community collection Ghost Whisperer, which ran for 5 seasons from 2005-2010, and starred in and govt produced the cable movie The Client List, for which she obtained a Golden Globe nomination.
She is represented by Vault Entertainment and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof + Fishman LLP.