Twenty-seven years after the release of the the slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it Here) and twenty-six years after the follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one Here), Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. might be reprising the roles of Julie James and Ray Bronson in a new sequel… but we still don’t know for sure. This new sequel was announced thirteen months ago, and even though it was said at the time that Hewitt and Prinze were in talks to return, Prinze later said that no one had been in contact with him about it yet. Hewitt said she would 100% be on board if an offer came her way – and even though she recently told Entertainment Tonight she couldn’t confirm but wouldn’t deny that she’d be back for the new sequel, she also revealed that...
- 3/19/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) is on board to direct the next installment in the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise for Sony, with Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.) writing the screenplay. We don’t yet know if the original cast will be back for the new movie, but that’s something Jennifer Love Hewitt is refusing to deny at this point in time.
The actress told Entertainment Tonight over the weekend, when asked if Julie James will be returning in the upcoming sequel to the ’90s hit, “I can’t confirm but I won’t deny.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt notes in the same interview that she hasn’t yet read the script for the film, but her comments do generally seem to suggest she’s very much on board. We expect the next I Know What You Did Last Summer movie will mix new characters and legacy characters,...
The actress told Entertainment Tonight over the weekend, when asked if Julie James will be returning in the upcoming sequel to the ’90s hit, “I can’t confirm but I won’t deny.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt notes in the same interview that she hasn’t yet read the script for the film, but her comments do generally seem to suggest she’s very much on board. We expect the next I Know What You Did Last Summer movie will mix new characters and legacy characters,...
- 3/18/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Julie James Jennifer Love Hewitt) is back. So is her seafaring boyfriend Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.), and, of course, the guy with the slicker and that nasty hook (Muse Watson).
But that's about the only resemblance between the ultralame "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" and the far superior 1997 original, which, minus the "Still" part, grossed more than $125 million in worldwide boxoffice.
But while the first installment benefited from the comparatively masterful talents of "Scream" scribe Kevin Williamson and Scottish director Jim Gillespie, the sequel's Trey Callaway (UPN's late "Mercy Point") and director Danny Cannon ("Judge Dredd") couldn't have less of a feel for the horror genre.
Their flimsy approximation is a listless, resoundingly hollow affair, completely devoid of anything resembling suspense or tension. Even the stubbornly unkillable Ben Willis traipses around looking about as menacing as the Gorton's fisherman.
Fans of the original may be hooked over the opening weekend, but poor word-of-mouth should send subsequent numbers dropping quicker than movie's doomed characters.
Heroine Julie James, who showed some feisty spirit the first time around, has apparently regressed into a mopey zombie since most of her friends were unceremoniously offed a year earlier.
Paranoid and hallucinatory, she has had little success leaving the messy past behind her by attending college in Boston. Enter spunky roommate Karla Wilson (Brandy), who has just won an all-expense-paid vacation for four in the Bahamas during the Fourth of July weekend (during one of the film's more contrived bits of business), which just happens to coincide with the anniversary of the big bloodbath.
Contending the vacation would be therapeutic, Karla talks her into joining her along with her boyfriend Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer) and platonic classmate Will Benson (Matthew Settle). Quicker than you can say, "How Julie Got Her Boogeyman Back," the tropical island paradise turns ugly as the evil fisherman once again rears his obscured head.
Packed with an embarrassment of illogical plot points even by conventional horror standards and static scene after static scene, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" is as awkward and cumbersome as its marquee-crowding title. And when it finally gets around to the thriller stuff, Cannon's idea of shooting mayhem is to whip out the strobe lights while John Frizzell's score shamelessly cribs from everything from "Psycho" to "Friday the 13th".
Straitjacketed by the moribund plotting, Hewitt is confined to looking drugged while forced to utter such clunkers as "I'm not dying on this island. Do you hear me?" Even Brandy's perky presence does little to rev things up, again thanks to the script's bland characterizations.
The scariest thing about this purported horror flick is just how frighteningly it misses the mark.
I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
Columbia
Columbia Pictures presents
in association with Mandalay Entertainment
A Neal H. Moritz production
A film by Danny Cannon
Director: Danny Cannon
Screenwriter: Trey Callaway
Producers: Neal H. Moritz, Erik Feig, Stokely Chaffin, William S. Beasley Director of photography: Vernon Layton
Production designer: Doug Kraner
Editor: Peck Prior
Costume designer: Dan Lester
Music supervisors: Sharon Boyle and John Houlihan
Music: John Frizzell
Casting: Jackie Birch
Color/stereo
Cast:
Julie James: Jennifer Love Hewitt
Ray Bronson: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Karla Wilson: Brandy Tyrell
Martin: Mekhi Phifer
Ben Willis: Muse Watson
Will Benson: Matthew Settle
Nancy: Jennifer Esposito
Running time -- 96 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
But that's about the only resemblance between the ultralame "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" and the far superior 1997 original, which, minus the "Still" part, grossed more than $125 million in worldwide boxoffice.
But while the first installment benefited from the comparatively masterful talents of "Scream" scribe Kevin Williamson and Scottish director Jim Gillespie, the sequel's Trey Callaway (UPN's late "Mercy Point") and director Danny Cannon ("Judge Dredd") couldn't have less of a feel for the horror genre.
Their flimsy approximation is a listless, resoundingly hollow affair, completely devoid of anything resembling suspense or tension. Even the stubbornly unkillable Ben Willis traipses around looking about as menacing as the Gorton's fisherman.
Fans of the original may be hooked over the opening weekend, but poor word-of-mouth should send subsequent numbers dropping quicker than movie's doomed characters.
Heroine Julie James, who showed some feisty spirit the first time around, has apparently regressed into a mopey zombie since most of her friends were unceremoniously offed a year earlier.
Paranoid and hallucinatory, she has had little success leaving the messy past behind her by attending college in Boston. Enter spunky roommate Karla Wilson (Brandy), who has just won an all-expense-paid vacation for four in the Bahamas during the Fourth of July weekend (during one of the film's more contrived bits of business), which just happens to coincide with the anniversary of the big bloodbath.
Contending the vacation would be therapeutic, Karla talks her into joining her along with her boyfriend Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer) and platonic classmate Will Benson (Matthew Settle). Quicker than you can say, "How Julie Got Her Boogeyman Back," the tropical island paradise turns ugly as the evil fisherman once again rears his obscured head.
Packed with an embarrassment of illogical plot points even by conventional horror standards and static scene after static scene, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" is as awkward and cumbersome as its marquee-crowding title. And when it finally gets around to the thriller stuff, Cannon's idea of shooting mayhem is to whip out the strobe lights while John Frizzell's score shamelessly cribs from everything from "Psycho" to "Friday the 13th".
Straitjacketed by the moribund plotting, Hewitt is confined to looking drugged while forced to utter such clunkers as "I'm not dying on this island. Do you hear me?" Even Brandy's perky presence does little to rev things up, again thanks to the script's bland characterizations.
The scariest thing about this purported horror flick is just how frighteningly it misses the mark.
I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
Columbia
Columbia Pictures presents
in association with Mandalay Entertainment
A Neal H. Moritz production
A film by Danny Cannon
Director: Danny Cannon
Screenwriter: Trey Callaway
Producers: Neal H. Moritz, Erik Feig, Stokely Chaffin, William S. Beasley Director of photography: Vernon Layton
Production designer: Doug Kraner
Editor: Peck Prior
Costume designer: Dan Lester
Music supervisors: Sharon Boyle and John Houlihan
Music: John Frizzell
Casting: Jackie Birch
Color/stereo
Cast:
Julie James: Jennifer Love Hewitt
Ray Bronson: Freddie Prinze Jr.
Karla Wilson: Brandy Tyrell
Martin: Mekhi Phifer
Ben Willis: Muse Watson
Will Benson: Matthew Settle
Nancy: Jennifer Esposito
Running time -- 96 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 11/6/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Having successfully persuaded horror audiences to "Scream" again, fright scribe Kevin Williamson follows up on that initial promise with "I Know What You Did Last Summer," a good old-fashioned scarefest that relies on smartly constructed suspense, not buckets of gore or CGI overload, to coax viewers to the edge of their seats.
Backed by sharp direction from Scottish filmmaker Jim Gillespie and solid performances by "Party of Five"'s Jennifer Love Hewitt and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"'s Sarah Michelle Gellar, the Columbia picture may be a mouthful for the marquee, but is certain to scare up potfuls of moolah when it opens the weekend after next.
There certainly isn't anything particularly groundbreaking going on -- horror aficionados will easily spot a little "Friday the 13th" here and a little "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" there, not to mention "Halloween" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" around the edges -- but Williamson and Gillespie know a thing or two about effective packaging.
Set against the mist-laden backdrop of a seaside South Carolina village, the action centers on four high school friends celebrating their final Fourth of July together before heading off in different directions.
There's aspiring actress Helen Shivers (Gellar), who has just been crowned the coveted Croaker Queen; her cocky, rich kid boyfriend Barry (Ryan Phillippe); her best friend Julie (Hewitt), who's off to Boston to pursue a career in law; and Julie's beau Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.), who dreams of escaping his working-class roots to become a successful writer.
But their big summer blowout hits a roadblock when Barry's new BMW runs head-on into a large, dark object in the middle of a remote stretch of highway. When their target turns out to be a human casualty, panic sets in, and realizing their blood-alcohol levels will no doubt result in a career-ending charge of vehicular manslaughter, they dump the body in the ocean.
Flash-forward one year later, when Julie receives an anonymous note bearing the words "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER." Before you can say "slasher picture," she and her accomplices find themselves being pursued by a ghostly figure in a black slicker with a mean, "Candyman" right hook.
Gillespie and Williamson push all the requisite scare-tactic buttons, admirably forgoing the ever-popular latex and optical effects in favor of traditional lighting and camera angles.
The cast is definitely above-par for this course. Although Hewitt and Gellar are required to provide all the obligatory scantily clothed screaming, they're a lot more self-sufficient and take-control than their '80s counterparts. Philippe and Prinze are also fine in a limited capacity.
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
Sony Releasing
Columbia Pictures
Mandalay Entertainment presents
A Neal H. Moritz production
Director Jim Gillespie
Screenwriter Kevin Williamson
Producers Neal H. Moritz, Erik Feig,
Stokely Chaffin
Executive producer William S. Beasley
Director of photography Denis Crossan
Production designer Gary Wissner
Editor Steve Mirkovich
Music John Debney
Music supervisor Alex Steyermark
Costume designer Catherine Adair
Casting Mary Vernieu
Color/stereo
Cast:
Julie James Jennifer Love Hewitt
Helen Shivers Sarah Michelle Gellar
Ray Bronson Freddie Prinze Jr.
Benjamin Willis/fisherman Muse Watson
Elsa Shivers Bridgette Wilson
Max Johnny Galecki
Barry Ryan Phillippe
Running time -- 100 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Backed by sharp direction from Scottish filmmaker Jim Gillespie and solid performances by "Party of Five"'s Jennifer Love Hewitt and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"'s Sarah Michelle Gellar, the Columbia picture may be a mouthful for the marquee, but is certain to scare up potfuls of moolah when it opens the weekend after next.
There certainly isn't anything particularly groundbreaking going on -- horror aficionados will easily spot a little "Friday the 13th" here and a little "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" there, not to mention "Halloween" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" around the edges -- but Williamson and Gillespie know a thing or two about effective packaging.
Set against the mist-laden backdrop of a seaside South Carolina village, the action centers on four high school friends celebrating their final Fourth of July together before heading off in different directions.
There's aspiring actress Helen Shivers (Gellar), who has just been crowned the coveted Croaker Queen; her cocky, rich kid boyfriend Barry (Ryan Phillippe); her best friend Julie (Hewitt), who's off to Boston to pursue a career in law; and Julie's beau Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.), who dreams of escaping his working-class roots to become a successful writer.
But their big summer blowout hits a roadblock when Barry's new BMW runs head-on into a large, dark object in the middle of a remote stretch of highway. When their target turns out to be a human casualty, panic sets in, and realizing their blood-alcohol levels will no doubt result in a career-ending charge of vehicular manslaughter, they dump the body in the ocean.
Flash-forward one year later, when Julie receives an anonymous note bearing the words "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER." Before you can say "slasher picture," she and her accomplices find themselves being pursued by a ghostly figure in a black slicker with a mean, "Candyman" right hook.
Gillespie and Williamson push all the requisite scare-tactic buttons, admirably forgoing the ever-popular latex and optical effects in favor of traditional lighting and camera angles.
The cast is definitely above-par for this course. Although Hewitt and Gellar are required to provide all the obligatory scantily clothed screaming, they're a lot more self-sufficient and take-control than their '80s counterparts. Philippe and Prinze are also fine in a limited capacity.
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
Sony Releasing
Columbia Pictures
Mandalay Entertainment presents
A Neal H. Moritz production
Director Jim Gillespie
Screenwriter Kevin Williamson
Producers Neal H. Moritz, Erik Feig,
Stokely Chaffin
Executive producer William S. Beasley
Director of photography Denis Crossan
Production designer Gary Wissner
Editor Steve Mirkovich
Music John Debney
Music supervisor Alex Steyermark
Costume designer Catherine Adair
Casting Mary Vernieu
Color/stereo
Cast:
Julie James Jennifer Love Hewitt
Helen Shivers Sarah Michelle Gellar
Ray Bronson Freddie Prinze Jr.
Benjamin Willis/fisherman Muse Watson
Elsa Shivers Bridgette Wilson
Max Johnny Galecki
Barry Ryan Phillippe
Running time -- 100 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/10/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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