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That factor you probably did final summer season? Somebody is aware of about it. And there is a new film to show it.

1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer was one in all many post-Scream slashers, however it raked in a whopping $126 million worldwide on a $17 million funds, that means Sony wasn’t about to let it go the way in which of Valentine or Cherry Falls.

Within the a long time since, the franchise’s signature ice hook has gored gaggles of dumb teenagers in two sequels — 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and 2006’s I will At all times Know What You Did Final Summer time — plus an Amazon Prime series, none of which have been in a position to hook audiences like the primary one. (The present only lasted one season.)

Maybe that can change with the upcoming I Know What You Did Final Summer time, a reboot (or is it a requel?) from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge).

You’ve gotten questions. Is it a correct sequel? Are any of the unique stars returning? And, most significantly, when is it popping out? Learn on for all the things we find out about 2025’s I Know What You Did Final Summer time.

What’s I Know What You Did Final Summer time about?

If you happen to’ve seen the unique, the plot of Robinson’s movie might sound acquainted. Sarah Michelle Gellar, who starred as pageant queen Helen Shivers within the 1997 movie, put it thusly after catching a screening: “Guess what? Anyone kills somebody and they get a letter, and it says, ‘I do know what you probably did final summer season.'”

In all seriousness, although, the brand new film is ready in modern-day Southport, the coastal North Carolina metropolis the place the unique movie unfolded. Like Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) earlier than them, a pack of teenagers unintentionally kill somebody in a automotive accident and cowl it up, solely to be confronted with their sins the next summer season — within the type of homicide.

The brand new teenagers being terrorized search assist from Ray and Julie, whose expertise being stalked by a hook-wielding killer might show helpful.

“I got here to this initially eager to dig into: if this factor had occurred to you, how would that form you, and what particular person do you develop into after it?” Robinson not too long ago advised Entertainment Weekly. “So actually wanting to have a look at each Ray and Julie and say, ‘Okay, how did this factor form each of them and the place would they be immediately?'”

Robinson added that she hopes the movie’s distinct visuals will assist it stand out from each its predecessors and the style’s abundance of dimly-lit, shadow-cloaked spookers. “I actually needed it to sort of stand by itself and have an identification visually,” she added whereas breaking down the first trailer. “Visually, for me, it was about going again to my largest touchstone for this film, Jaws. I used to be like, ‘I need stunning colours, stunning setting, blue water, purple blood.’ For me, it is sort of like a throwback, and what I hope is that it feels prefer it’s contemporary in its nostalgia.”

Is there an I Know What You Did Final Summer time trailer?

The primary trailer for I Know What You Did Final Summer time arrived in April 2025. Within the clip, the unique’s hook resurfaces (together with a spear gun!) to slaughter one doomed teen.

We have been additionally provided glimpses of Prinze Jr.’s Ray and Love Hewitt’s Julie.

The previous, now a grizzled bar proprietor, interrupts a city corridor assembly to warn that “this is not the primary time there’s been violence like this in Southport.”

Julie, in the meantime, meets up with one of many teenagers to somberly ship a hilarious query: “What did you do final summer season?”

A second trailer launched in June 2025, teasing more hook-centric stalkings and slaughters, in addition to a better give attention to Julie. “You may’t run, you’ll be able to’t cover. Get them earlier than they get you,” she advises. “Whoever’s doing this, it is private to them.”

It ends with a little bit of kibble for followers, as Julie delivers her most-memed line from the original: “What are you ready for?”

Who’s within the I Know What You Did Final Summer time forged?

I Know What You Did Final Summer time is led by an ensemble of rising stars, together with Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks), Chase Sui Wonders (The Studio), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid), Tyriq Withers (Atlanta), and Sarah Pidgeon (The Wilds).

Rounding out the forged is dependable participant Austin Nichols. A veteran of movies like The Rocketeer (1991) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), he most not too long ago appeared on collection like The Killing (2011–2014), Cardinal (2017–2020), and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024).

Nichols starred in David Milch’s HBO oddity John From Cincinnati (2007) earlier than scoring main roles on collection like One Tree Hill (2008–2012), Ray Donovan (2013–2019), and The Walking Dead (2015–2016).

Is Jennifer Love-Hewitt returning for I Know What You Did Final Summer time?

Sure, each Love Hewitt and Prinze Jr. are reprising their roles for I Know What You Did Final Summer time.

EW reported that Love Hewitt and Prinze Jr. have been in talks to return to the franchise when the movie was introduced in February 2023, however it wasn’t till December 2024 that the actress confirmed her function in an Instagram post. “It’s by no means too late to return. Julie James is returning. I do know what you may be doing subsequent summer season!” she wrote.

“I’ll say it’s actually such an honor, at 45, to even be invited again,” Love Hewitt stated in a 2024 Variety interview. “To be considered in that means, to not simply transfer on to the newer, higher, youthful variations, however [to be offered] to come back again and play that half is basically cool.”

Talking with EW, Prinze Jr. provided some updates as to what Ray’s been as much as for the final three a long time. “Ray has a bar that he runs,” he stated. “It is sort of the place he is at in his life now. He is not the lively fisherman that he thought he was going to be. He is managing and proudly owning a spot of his personal and making an attempt to maintain it afloat.”

He added, “I believe what [Robinson and I] each dropped at Ray was so much more vulnerability on this film. When the s— hits the fan once more, so to talk, you sort of see how these characters absorbed all that trauma from the primary two motion pictures, and now they are a sponge getting squeezed, and you get to see what comes out. And the quantity of vulnerability we have been in a position to put in there, I assumed, was actually trustworthy and simply natural. Nothing felt pressured or pretend or one thing that was a observe from any individual that did not should be given a observe.” 

Their relationship, Robinson advised EW, is a key a part of the movie’s emotional arc. “[It’s] about each Ray and Julie discovering catharsis by means of serving to the youthful forged on this movie… I believe they each have numerous emotional stuff that they’ve sort of put Band-Aids on, and these Band-Aids are ripped off by our youthful forged, and this film is unquestionably about them. Every of them has an individual within the youthful forged that they’re related to, and it’s about them serving to all 5 of those children transfer by means of this.”

Nevertheless, anticipate appearances from the 1997 movie’s Gellar or Ryan Phillippe, each of whom bit the bullet within the authentic. That little element did not cease Robinson, although, who tried to recruit Gellar for a job.

“I attempted, okay? I harassed her! However she is lifeless,” Robinson advised EW. “I attempted to pitch some loopy s— too. I used to be like, ‘What if it is such as you weren’t lifeless and you are really alive, however in hiding?’ And Sarah’s like, ‘I used to be on ice. I used to be essentially the most lifeless an individual might be. You may see my frozen physique.’ I used to be like, ‘Yeah, however what if?’ And she or he stated, ‘I’m lifeless. I’m Sarah Useless Gellar.'”

That stated, there’s one different franchise alum who may make an look: Brandy Norwood. The R&B singer and actress performed Karla in I Nonetheless Know What You Did That Summer time — and survived. She additionally expressed interest in reprising the role.

“Here is what I really feel like I can say with out spoiling something,” Robinson stated. “We do discover out what occurred to her. I am an enormous fan of this franchise, and I got here at this as an enormous fan of this franchise. In order that’s all I will say.”

Wait, did not Julie die on the finish of I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time?

Technically, sure, it is vitally a lot implied that Julie is killed within the last moments of I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time. However you did not take that critically, did you? Slashers all the time want a stinger.

“So the way in which that I’ve approached the franchise is that I really feel like these last scenes within the first two motion pictures stay exterior the cannon,” Robinson advised EW, “as a result of within the first film she will get attacked by means of the bathe, by means of the glass door, and within the second film, she will get pulled below the mattress. In order that they’re each alive and properly, and what I’ll say is that we now have continued the custom in our movie.”

When is the I Know What You Did Final Summer time launch date?

I Know What You Did Final Summer time hooks into theaters on July 18, 2025.

The place can I watch I Know What You Did Final Summer time?

I Know What You Did Final Summer time will debut in theaters.

You watch the unique I Know What You Did Final Summer time on Netflix and lease its sequels through Amazon Prime or Apple TV+.

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