The I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise is finally getting a new installment that will address the cliffhanger ending of the second movie. The new film, which has been confirmed as a canonical sequel, will ignore the poorly received 2006 film I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer and instead pick up where the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer left off.
The original ending of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer left Julie’s fate ambiguous, with Ben Willis dragging her under the bed at the end of the film. The new sequel will finally provide an explanation for what happened to Julie and her character, Ray.
The film will also reunite original stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., with Hewitt already in talks to return. The story will follow a new young cast, including Madelyn Cline, Jonah Hauer-King, and Sarah Pidgeon, alongside the returning legacy characters.
The script was co-written by director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and writers Sam Lansky and Leah McKendrick, and has been described as a film that “reckons with some big ideas about hero and villain, right and wrong, how your skeletons come back to haunt you.” The film will explore the impact of social media on the characters and will feature a modern take on the franchise.
The film is set to be released in 2025, and will be a direct sequel to the 1997 horror film, ignoring the subsequent sequels and starting a new timeline.