Though Jennifer Kaytin Robinson‘s I Know What You Did Final Summer time brings again some acquainted faces, don’t anticipate to see any reigning Croaker Queens.
The author-director of the sequel, which premieres July 18 in theaters, lately admitted that she “tried relentlessly” to get her pal Sarah Michelle Gellar to reprise her function because the doomed Helen Shivers from the 1997 slasher pic, however “she’s lifeless.”
“I attempted, okay? I harassed her! However she is lifeless,” Robinson advised Leisure Weekly. “I attempted to pitch some loopy s— too. I used to be like, ‘What if it’s such as you weren’t lifeless and also you’re really alive, however in hiding?’ And Sarah’s like, ‘I used to be on ice. I used to be probably the most lifeless an individual may very well be. You’ll be able to see my frozen physique.’ I used to be like, ‘Yeah, however what if?’ And he or she stated, ‘I’m lifeless. I’m Sarah Useless Gellar.’”
After Deadline reported the sequel was within the works in 2023, Gellar issued the identical response about her potential return. “I’m lifeless,” she advised Individuals.
“My greatest good friend [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] is directing it, so we joke that I’ve an unofficial job, which is I’m continuity,” added Gellar. “So I’m at all times the one telling her, ‘Properly, that might occur, or that wouldn’t occur with these characters,’ so I do have form of an unofficial job title.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar in ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer time’ (1997) (Columbia/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Though Gellar is not going to return for the long-awaited replace, she teased a photograph from the set in November, the place she joined shut good friend Robinson, in addition to husband Freddie Prinze Jr., who reprises his function as Ray Bronson. She later admitted the photograph bought her “in a bit little bit of bother.”
Along with a fast glimpse of Gellar’s Helen in a framed photograph on her grave, the primary trailer for the film that dropped Tuesday options the return of Prinze’s Ray and Jennifer Love Hewitt‘s remaining woman Julie James. The preview additionally reveals a primary take a look at Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon, Billy Campbell, Gabbriette Bechtel, Austin Nichols, Lola Tung and Nicholas Alexander Chavez.
In the meantime, when requested if Brandy Norwood‘s surviving character Karla Wilson from the 1997 sequel I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer time will return, Robinson stated, “You’ll need to go see the film.“
