Fans of 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer are finally being treated to a direct follow-up to 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. The original two Last Summer films were ignored for a stand-alone sequel in 2006 and a separate television project on Amazon Prime. Now Freddie Prinze Jr. has confirmed he’ll be returning for the new I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel alongside co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Jennifer Love Hewitt only recently confirmed her involvement in the sequel despite talks being traced back to the project’s pre-production period. Likewise, actor Freddy Prinze Jr.’s name was also brought up during these talks, but he’s only now confirming his appearance in the follow-up.
Here’s what he was able to share regarding the project while speaking on the Scale Talk Podcast with David Miniatures about his return:
“[Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] just took such good care of Love’s character, Julie James, and my character, Ray Bronson. They’re not the leads of the movie by any stretch of the imagination,” he began.
“[Kaytin Robinson] made them such a powerful pushing forward of the other cast. It’s not like, ‘Oh, here’s the Ray and Julie movie that we deserve.’ That doesn’t even make sense. That guy’s dead. So it has to be new generation. And the way she sort of laces us in there with them is just beautifully done. The script is wonderfully written.”
It seems as though the film was written to create a new story that would make sense to tell, albeit with the original two movies still canon, and that Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. will mostly tie the two stories together with their appearances. Fortunately, Prinze seems confident that the sequel will do their characters justice even with limited screen time.
The new cast of the I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel includes Billy Campbell, Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Haur-King, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Austin Nichols, and Gabbriette. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is directing the project.
Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for any additional I Know What You Did Last Summer news as we have it. Now that we know Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt are both returning for certain, I Know What You Did Last Summer fans will certainly be excited, even if they don’t have particularly large roles. Hopefully they can still do the original two films justice.