No, Sarah Michelle Gellar not returning this summer for restart “I know what you did last summer”. Why? Because her iconic character Helen Shivers is “the most dead a person can be.” To be fair, she did has the most memorable death scene in the original in 1997 film… …
But it didn’t end ‘I know what you did last summer“Reboot Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson From gently “harass” gel to rethink back to the franchise. Robinson previously worked with Gellar on the Netflix movie 2022 “Do Revenge” and the duo has remained close since then.
Robinson told us Entertainment every week That while the original franchise stars Jennifer love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. Returns for the horror follower, Gellar had to reject the replay. “I tried, ok? I harassed her! But she’s dead,” Robinson told the outlet. “I also tried to hit a crazy crap. I was like:” What if it’s as if you were not dead and you were actually alive, but in the hiding place? “And Sarah is like“ I was on ice. I was like, “Yes, but what happens about?” And she said, “I’m dead.
Gellar confirmed earlier to People That she would not be in the restart. Instead, she will serve as a franchise stated on an “unofficial” capacity. “My best friend (Robinson) directs it, so we joke that I have an unofficial job, which is that I am continuity,” Gellar said. “So I’m always the one who tells her,” it would happen, or it wouldn’t happen to these characters, “so I have a type of unofficial job.”
Meanwhile, Gellar will be In the lead role in another horror franchisewhich she was recently announced as part of the role of “Ready or Not: Here in Come” sequence, along with Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Elijah Wood and Author David Cronenberg.
The upcoming “I Know What You Did last summer” reboots stars Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Austin Nichols, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Hauer-King, Billy Campbell and Gabbriette.
The Official synopsis The film reads: “When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover their commitment and make a pact to keep it secret rather than meet the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they are forced to confront a frightening truth: someone knows what they did last summer … and is hellcre.
Robinson told indifire 2022 it Collaboration with Gellar about “DO Revenge” Be a dream. Robinson quoted the influence of Gellar’s “cruel intentions” role at “Do Revenge”, with her casting almost 25 years after the beloved film from 1999 was a surrogate sequel.
“She was my first dream choice,” Robinson told IndieWire. “And that was one of the things where you don’t think she will. I was like,” Yes, of course, let’s offer it to her and see what happens. “You miss 100 percent of the pictures you don’t take. But when she said yes, I was incredible and so excited.”
