"I Know What You Did Last Summer" Trailer: Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. Return as a New Generation Faces the Hook in This Legacy Sequel to '90s Slasher Classic
The iconic slasher returns with a new generation of victims, plus Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. to face the fisherman’s wrath.
It seems like only yesterday when beloved films of the 1980s were all the rage, and every movie studio was scrambling to remake or reboot a franchise from that decade. Well, the ‘80s are so passé these days—it’s now all about the ‘90s! The ‘80s are out, and the ‘90s are in! Welcome to the new era of '90s nostalgia, where the '90s will invade the public consciousness like never before. Get ready to hear things like, “Ah man, the '90s were such a great time—a simpler time. It had the best music, the best movies, the best shows. Why can’t we just go back and relive it?” To which '90s stars like Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. will quickly reply in unison, “Well, we don't see why not.”
Thus, today’s release of the first official trailer for I Know What You Did Last Summer. But wait, it's not a remake—it’s a legacy sequel... which is kind of like a reboot where some of the original cast members, namely Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., will return, but only as a bridge to introduce a new cast of young stars. You know the spiel.
It’s kind of funny that this new, updated version of I Know What You Did Last Summer is following the recent success of the new Scream legacy installments, which also brought back some old favorites to mingle with a new generation of characters and became a box office smash. There’s no doubt that had an influence in greenlighting this new movie, which originates from the 1997 slasher film about a group of teens who are picked off one by one by a mysterious hook-wielding killer a year after they accidentally killed a pedestrian with their car and covered up the crime. The film not only became one of the horror staples of the ‘90s, but clearly rode the success of another slasher phenomenon, Scream, which opened a year prior.
The cast of this new I Know What You Did Last Summer movie includes Chase Sui Wonders (currently seen playing Seth Rogen's assistant in The Studio), Madelyn Cline (from the hit Netflix series Outer Banks), Sarah Pidgeon (from Amazon's The Wilds), Jonah Hauer-King (Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid remake), and Tyriq Withers (upcoming Jordan Peele-produced football horror HIM). They all play the group of friends from the sleepy fishing town of Southport who find themselves in quite a pickle after unintentionally running over a vagabond at night, only to get rid of the dead body in secret in the hopes it will all blow over. But alas, a mysterious fisherman with a rusty hook for a hand comes looking for them. And all hell breaks loose.
It’s not the first time this strange hook-wielding killer has appeared in Southport and started dropping bodies. It happened before, about 30 years ago, to another group of teens. This is where Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.) come in. Now in their mid-40s, they thought they'd seen the last of this raincoat-wearing grim reaper, but no... he's back!
Now the question is, will Julie and Ray help this younger generation, or perhaps the better question: can these teens even escape the hook when they know they're guilty of not owning up to their horrible deeds from last summer? Everyone has to pay the price eventually, right?
Filmmaker Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, known for co-writing Thor: Love and Thunder with Taika Waititi and who made her directorial debut with Netflix's darkly comic mean-teen throwback Do Revenge, is directing this new legacy sequel, which also co-stars Billy Campbell, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Austin Nichols, and Gabbriette.
I Know What You Did Last Summer will be slashing its way into theaters this summer starting July 18th. Watch the trailer, above.
Official Synopsis:
When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge. As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.
