More has been revealed about the Columbia Pictures’ sequel to the 1997 slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Sony debuted the first look for Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s horror pic during its CinemaCon presentation at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Monday, and it brought cheers to the capacity crowd. There were claps when original stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. turned up on the big screen.
Set for theatrical release on July 18, the update follows the events after five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident. They try to cover their tracks, and in doing so make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. 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. One by one they are stalked by a killer, and they discover the same scenario has happened before, so they turn to two survivors of the Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.
Those two survivors are played by Hewitt and Prinze Jr., who reprise their roles as Julie James and her boyfriend Ray Bronson. The new I Know What You Did Last Summer stars Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon, Billy Campbell, Gabbriette Bechtel, Austin Nichols, Lola Tung and Nicholas Alexander Chavez.
The footage opened with Cline’s character settling in for a meditative bath while her boyfriend is stabbed downstairs by the mysterious killer and his iconic hook. She later poses a question, “Do you think this is some kind of fucked up karma for what we did … or someone saw what happened?” The body count continues to go up, and in a later scene Bronson turns up at a town hall to reveal, “This isn’t the first time there’s been violence like this in Southport.”
An audience member not far from The Hollywood Reporter’s seat inside the Colosseum started clapping at first sight of Hewitt whose character offers the mic drop line, “I just have one question,” she asks, “What did you do last summer?”
Robinson directed from a screenplay by Leah McKendrick, Robinson and journalist and author Sam Lansky. Story credit goes to Robinson and McKendrick. The film was produced by Neal H. Moritz with a team of executive producers including are Robinson, Jackie Shenoo and Karina Rahardja.
CinemaCon, the annual gathering of cinema owners and Hollywood studios, is hosted in Las Vegas by the newly rebranded Cinema United, which for decades was known as the National Association of Theatre Owners. This year’s edition runs from March 31 to April 3.
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