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- A new trailer for I Know What You Did Last Summer shows Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt in action against a killer foe
- The horror sequel picks up after the events of 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
- I Know What You Did Last Summer is in theaters July 18
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt are ready to face an old foe.
On Tuesday, June 17, Sony Pictures debuted a new trailer for I Know What You Did Last Summer, which stars Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers and Jonah Hauer-King, and marks the return of Prinze Jr. and Hewitt to the franchise.
The horror sequel picks up after the events of 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, where Prinze Jr., 49, and Hewitt, 46, reunite to help five friends defeat the franchise’s terrifying and murderous fisherman — and at the end of the new trailer, Hewitt’s Julie James delivers her famous final-girl line from the original 1997 film: “What are you waiting for?”
“When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences,” teases a synopsis for the new movie. “A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer … and is hell-bent on revenge.”
The logline adds, “As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.”
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The newest addition to the franchise comes nearly three decades ago since I Know What You Did Last Summer released in 1997 starring Prinze, Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Prinze reprises his role as Ray alongside Hewitt, who is returning as Julie James. (They both returned in the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer too.)
“A lot of us have been fans of the horror genre and of Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt, and getting to work with them, and how this new generation is integrated with them, is so fun,” Wonders, 29, said in a Q&A during a trailer screening on Saturday, June 14, in Culver City, California.
“And also, the chemistry between all of us is kind of off the charts,” she added.
Hewitt recently told PEOPLE there are plenty of nostalgic callbacks and easter eggs in the new film.
“There’s lots of ’90s in there, so get excited because the ’90s are back again!” she said. “And there’s lots of twists and turns. I don’t think people are going to expect anything that’s coming.”
Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, known for 2022’s Do Revenge, wrote the new film with Leah McKendrick and Sam Lansky. She told PEOPLE they “approached it like super fans, so I think people are going to be really happy.”
“All the things that you want to see in this movie, you’re going to see in this movie,” Robinson added.
I Know What You Did Last Summer is in theaters July 18.
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