‘I Tried Relentlessly:’ I Know What You Did Final Summer time Director Did Her Finest For Sarah Michelle Gellar To Return

The I Know What You Did Final Summer time legacy sequel brings again some fan-favorite characters from the unique film. WHile Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. will repirse their roles from the 1997 movie, Sarah Michelle Gellar turned down a possible look.

Talking with Leisure Weekly, director Jennifer Kaytin shared a dialog she had with Gellar about returning for the newest installment within the horror franchise. However since Gellar’s character, Helen Shivers, had died, the actor determined towards it. “I attempted, okay? I harassed her! However she is lifeless,” Robinson defined. “I attempted to pitch some loopy s**t too. I used to be like, ‘What if it’s such as you weren’t lifeless, and also you’re truly alive, however in hiding?’ And Sarah’s like, ‘I used to be on ice. I used to be probably the most lifeless an individual could possibly be. You’ll be able to see my frozen physique.’ I used to be like, ‘Yeah, however what if?’ And she or he mentioned, ‘I’m lifeless. I’m Sarah Useless Gellar.’“

Any hopes of a resurrection of Gellar’s character within the newest installment of I Know What You Did Final Summer time franchise had been dashed within the movie’s opening trailer, which reveals Helen’s grave with an image of her beside it. The trailer additionally sees Hewitt’s character, Julie James, attempting to assist one of many youthful characters. “I simply have one query,” she says. “What did you do final summer season?”

The brand new tackle I Know What You Did Final Summer time debuts 28 years after the unique, with the primary film seeing 4 youngsters run over a pedestrian on their manner again from a seaside journey, seemingly killing him and dumping his physique. Ssporting by no means to speak about what occurred, the quartet, Julie, Helen, Ray Bronson (Prinze Jr.) and Barry Cox (Ryan Phillippe), are hunted down by a hook-wielding killer who haunts them over the accident. Although the unique wasn’t a vital hit, it turned a box-office success and gained cult traditional standing amongst audiences.

Associated

‘So Fortunate to Be on This Journey’: Sarah Michelle Gellar Confirms Buffy Reboot Plans

The trail to a Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival is lengthy, however Sarah Michelle Gellar’s phrases are encouraging.

The Legacy Sequel Options A New Forged

The legacy sequel may even comply with a gaggle of faculty college students as they attempt to survive a hook-wielding killer after their previous haunts them. The movie welcomes a number of new franchise faces, together with Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Jonah Hauer-King, Chase Sui Wonders and Tyriq Withers. Although Hewitt and Prinze are the one unique movie stars showing. One actor from its 1998 sequel, I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time, desires in on the motion as Brandy Norwood acknowledged her intent to function a number of instances.

Regardless of her absence from I Know What You Did Final Summer time (2025), Gellar has been conserving busy as she’s set to steer Hulu’s upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot. She can be slated to seem within the TV collection, Unhealthy Summer time Individuals, which has parallels to the award-winning present, The White Lotus.

I Know What You Did Final Summer time opens in theaters on July 18.

Supply: Leisure Weekly

I Know What You Did Final Summer time

Launch Date

July 18, 2025

Director

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

Writers

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Leah McKendrick, Sam Lansky, Lois Duncan

Franchise(s)

I Know What You Did Final Summer time