We haven’t heard a lot about the planned I Know What You Did Last Summer legacy sequel since it was first announced but now the film’s writer, Leah McKendrick, is giving a little insight regarding its direction.
During a chat with Collider, McKendrick was still tight-lipped about the plot but she did give some non-spoiler revelations by saying, “No spoilers, but I will say that I think if you’re an OG fan like me and you, I think you’re gonna be happy. I think you’re gonna get it.” She also teased a social media aspect to the film that wasn’t present in the original films but would make it more modern for today’s audiences.
“At its core, I think it really reckons with some big ideas about hero and villain, right and wrong, how your skeletons come back to haunt you. And in the age of the internet and the age where fame is such a revered concept, the creation of TikTok and social media, who is Julie James in a world where there are no secrets anymore?”
McKendrick continued, “I already feel like I’m saying too much, but I think at its core, if you watch the original… I obviously watched 8 million times while working on it… but it’s fun. It’s just a popcorn, wild ride. It’s campy at times, Jennifer Love Hewitt is so hot, Freddie Prinze Jr. is so hot. Sarah Michelle [Gellar], Ryan [Phillippe], they’re so gorgeous. It’s like beautiful people behaving badly. You just can’t get enough of it. There’s a lot of that in this film.”
I Know What You Did Last Summer was released in 1997 and was the second major late 90s slasher hit released after the success of 1996’s Scream. In the film, four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town. On a budget of just $17 million, the film went on to gross $125.5 million globally.
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