Jennifer Love Hewitt Closes Deal To Return For Next ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Movie At Sony

Justin Kroll

13 December 2024 at 12:04 pm·2-min read

Following the news that she was in talks to reprise her role in the new I Know What You Did Last Summer movie, Jennifer Love Hewitt has officially closed a deal to return to the franchise, announcing the news on social media. She joins her former co-star Freddie Prinze Jr along with new castmembers Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers and Jonah Haur-King.

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is directing the follow-up to the horror film franchise, which is written by Sam Lansky and Kaytin Robinson off a draft by Leah McKendrick.

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Neal Moritz is producing. Sony Pictures will release the film in theaters on July 18, 2025.

The original film follows four young friends (played by Prinze, Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe) bound by a tragic accident who are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer, loosely based on the Lois Duncan novel of the same name, was a hit that led to the development of the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, which premiered in 1998. A direct-to-video third installment of the franchise, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006), is considered a stand-alone sequel as the story diverged from the first two installments and had no original cast reprising their roles.

Hewitt can currently be seen co-starring on the Fox show 9-1-1, created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Next, she will be seen starring, directing and executive producing the Lifetime film The Holiday Junkie. She starred in, executive produced and directed several episodes of her network series Ghost Whisperer, which ran for five seasons from 2005-2010, and starred in and executive produced the cable film The Client List, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination.

She is represented by Vault Entertainment and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof + Fishman LLP.

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