No matter how many times we tell them. No matter how carefully we explain it. Like a jealous long-distance boyfriend who refuses to believe you’re “just at your friend’s parent’s beach house,” Sony still wants to know what you did last summer. They’ve announced yet another reboot based on their concerns, proving that they know exactly what you did last summer and want to hear you admit it.
I Know What You Did Last Summer, the pretty bad ‘90s slasher that gets associated with Scream because it came out around the same time and starred another Party Of Five actor, is getting another reboot. Three years removed from the premiere of Prime Videos’ I Know What You Did Last Summer and two-and-a-half years removed from its cancelation, Sony announced that a reboot (or, more likely, legacy sequel) of the 1997 original would come out next July. I Know What You Did Last Summer produced two sequels, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and 2006’s direct-to-video installment, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. Deadline reports that the original film’s stars, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt, are expected to return to Southport, North Carolina, to run over another raincoat-clad fisherman.
Written by Scrambled screenwriter Leah McKendrick and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), Deadline says the plot is “under wraps,” which further fuels our speculation that this will be a legacy sequel. If we had to guess, it’s probably about the kids of Hewitt’s Julie James and Prinze’s Ray Bronson, a new generation of manslaughtering teens who run over a hook-wielding maniac because the “autopilot” in their Cybertruck went haywire. God, if this movie is about AI knowing what you did last summer, we’re just going to snap.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (seriously, this time) will be released on July 18, 2025.