The all-new I Know What You Did Final Summer time sees Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt return to assist a brand new era face an previous horror, however author/director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson could not rope Sarah Michelle Gellar again in.
After the success of Scream as a revived franchise, Sony’s taking a shot at one other teen horror franchise from the Nineties, and so they’re additionally bringing again some fan-favorite stars from the OG movies for the reboot sequel.
The brand new I Know What You Did Final Summer time options younger mates performed by Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Sarah Pidgeon, Tariq Weathers, and Jonah Hauer-King going through a well-known evil after one thing occurred “final summer time” to them.
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But it surely’s the return of unique stars Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt that may have garnered probably the most pleasure from a distinct era of horror followers — or those that’ve rediscovered the 1997 unique and its sequels.
There’s one well-known face, although, who will not be making a return, although not with out a whole lot of effort and persuading and outside-the-box considering to attempt to make it occur. And all of it comes again to what occurred in that very first movie.
Author/director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson admitted that she “tried relentlessly” to persuade Sarah Michelle Gellar to come back again, however she could not make it make sense for the Buffy alum, regardless of some determined creativity.
“I attempted, okay? I harassed her! However she is useless,” Robinson instructed Leisure Weekly. “I attempted to pitch some loopy s— too. I used to be like, ‘What if it’s such as you weren’t useless and also you’re really alive, however in hiding?'”
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“And Sarah’s like, ‘I used to be on ice. I used to be probably the most useless an individual may very well be. You may see my frozen physique,'” Robinson continued. “I used to be like, ‘Yeah, however what if?’ And she or he mentioned, ‘I’m useless. I’m Sarah Lifeless Gellar.’”
It isn’t the primary time SMG has quipped about being “useless’ within the fictional universe. She and Robinson describe each other as greatest mates, and he or she instructed Individuals again in 2023 that the 2 share a joke that Gellar does have a task, “which is I’m continuity.”
She mentioned that she takes the function critically, too, including, “I’m all the time the one telling her, ‘Effectively, that may occur, or that wouldn’t occur with these characters,’ so I do have type of an unofficial job title.”
IKWYDLS starring JLH and FPJ — however not SMG — hits theaters on July 18, 2025.
